Jobfox has introduced a new recruiting tool called Intros, a personal introduction service designed for candidates with a 5-star rating on the job site.
JobFox’s Intros Team will personally e-mail or text companies on behalf of the candidate. Job seeker ratings are based on JobFox’s Mutual Suitability System, a matching system that connects employers to candidates.
“Jobfox is doing what no other job board has done before – establishing one-to-one relationships and connections between candidates and employers,” JobFox CEO Rob McGovern said. “Our precision job-fit system knows when professionals are 5-Star matches for positions. This enables Jobfox to quickly move these candidates into the networking ‘A’ list of compatible employers.”
It’s great that so many job boards are willing to do the work for candidates nowadays, but there’s still something to be said about a job seeker who aggressively goes after the company and the jobs he wants with little help from anyone. What would speak more volumes to a company – another email from a job board in their Inbox, or a carefully-crafted cover letter with the company’s best interests at heart?
If a candidate sincerely covets a certain position, they’ll most likely rather that the CEO feel the grip of their handshake, not vexation at having to deal with another marketing campaign.
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Jobfox has a team of people who are going to introduce candidates to the staffing solutions firm rep who has paid to post a job? How very revolutionary!
August 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
If I live in Washington, DC and a CEO in Seattle wants to shake my hand, will Rob fly me there, too?
August 8th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Its def cool to see jobfox taking this step.
I wonder if they’d ever be willing to get it another step further and offer their technology to employers on a pay-per-hire model.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
How is the technology that allows firefox to determine 5 star candidates any different from that of Trovix? Is it too worth 72 million?
December 29th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I went onto Jobfox today and found out that their “intros” is now a PREMIUM service that seekers have to PAY for. It works like this:
See that you are a 5 star candidate
Instead of being able to get an Intro for free, you have to pay a subscription of $30 per month to have a personal intro. Otherwise you are pretty much shown that sending your resume without a subscription would be useless.
What’s also interesting is that since that offer started I have been sent a ton of 5-star rated jobs… sounds ropey to me.
Jobfox is trying to follow what theladders.com has but the difference is that Jobfox doesn’t feature $100K jobs. Also, Jobfox is pushing a very expensive resume writing service amongst others. Jobfox proceeds to introduce gimmicks that nickle and dime poor jobseekers with promises without backing it up. In this sort of economy, to tell a job seeker that that they are 3X more likely to get noticed is shameful.
Jobfox still says that they make over 3,000 intros per day. Are they really selling that many memberships or is it that they forgot to change that in the latest release?
I am beginning to wonder if this company is likely to make it.
March 9th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I signed up for jobfox about a month ago and didn’t know what to make of the jobfox Intro. However, I really need a job so I went ahead and became a jobfox advantage member. After signing up – I requested an Intro for one of my job matches.
Again, I didn’t know what to expect. You can imagine how suprised I was when I heard back from an employer. I’ve applied for hunderds of jobs on Monster, Careerbuilder and spent hours on Indeed and Simply Hired. Nothing. It is funny how I felt I was being more productive on those sites even though I never heard back from everyone.
Through jobfox’s intro I got an interview. (It’s tomorrow, wish me luck). I can’t speak for everyone who has used the service – but I am really excited for my interview tomorrow.
March 9th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Sara,
So, you went and bought an intro advantage membership and now have a job interview. Are you saying that after you got your Intro interview you randomly went out and found a blog post that is months old criticising Jobfox’s Intros service? Hmm. I know Rob McGovern is hard up, but to send one of his employees to this site to rave about Jobfox in order to reel people in is laughable. It shows his advert/marketing budget = 0. We all know Rob McGovern checks out this site frequently. Otherwise why would he tell his employees in an all hands meeting that someone on Cheezhead said he had hair plugs?
March 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Michaela,
I actually found this blog post on the homepage – it was listed under popular. After I saw it last Friday I decided I should leave a comment because I had good experience. I’ve been looking for a job for the past 5 1/2 months and it has been miserable. I am so worn down I have very little hope yet. This service gave me hope.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Sara – We all use GM tactics, thats a given but when an insider recognizes it, just ignore them. There is no need to resell. They might do a simple search to fins that “Sara” has been leaving lots of positive comments about Jobfox.
http://jobsearch.about.com/b/2008/10/19/do-you-have-a-favorite-job-site.htm
Where do I find such loyal users? Again, not a big deal but dont BS a BSer!
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I also signed up for the “extra” service, I applied for a job, they sent the into and nothing happened. I applied for several other jobs and never got another into. I contacted Jobfox the only way you can, via email and never received a response. I emailed a second time, again, no response. Slowly but surely all the services I signed up for fell through the wayside but of course they continued to charge my credit card. But here’s the best part…there is no way to cancel your account and have them stop charging your card. I finally had to call my credit card company and contest the charges! As far as I’m concerned Jobfox is a complete scam, they have no customer service number and never respond to email.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Bravo, Rafael!!!