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By: Alex P

Alex P — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:49:20 +0000

A lesson to all these start up websites who seem to think they can run a business and not actually sell to anyone.

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Itzbig Joins Deadpool | Internet Startups — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:31:07 +0000

[...] that backed out of the funding committment. Apparently Jim McGovern wrote a letter, according to Cheezhead. It is with great regret that I am writing to inform you that itzbig will be discontinuing [...]

By: Tucker

Tucker — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:40:42 +0000

Great technology and they had the profiling for the candidate side down to a few minutes. The problem with matching is, as many of your readers correctly point out, it’s the time it takes to enter data. The recruiter side is a problem they attempted to solve in ways that wouldn’t work – wouldn’t scale and were just wrong. Others in the matching game are doing the same today and will meet the same problems tomorrow.

By: Rafael Cosentino

Rafael Cosentino — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:32:11 +0000

Chad, in general I would disagree. Job matching combines job posting and resume searching into one simple process. Posting the job takes as long as any other site although I will agree whether keyword or matching some sites have a better UI then others.

By: Chad Sowash

Chad Sowash — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:01:30 +0000

Job Match is more work than posting a job, filling out a profile or pressing a button. They keyword here is “work”, remember that?

By: Pete R.

Pete R. — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:45:24 +0000

I think that this will be pretty consistent with the matching systems that are out there. JobFox being the biggest offender, but someone keeps dumping $$ into them. I think that in the end, its a fundamental refusal to leverage networking and human contact. You can get a better feel for a “fit” byu a conversation than some overblown matching system. If it were that easy, we’d all be married, after posting 1 personal ad. :)

By: Martin Snyder

Martin Snyder — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:18:28 +0000

an algorithm ?

Job match is more chemistry than math.

By: usetobeitzbig

usetobeitzbig — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:50:51 +0000

Silly, talk about ad hominem. When multiple people at a small company contunually tell the CEO what the clients are saying, while closing sales by the way, and that valuable information is dismissed out right, who else is there to blame.

The company had successes and prospects that were willing to move the company forward.

You weren’t there so I won’t take to much stock in your comments, but felt you needed a fuller picture.

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Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:58:22 +0000

[...] ItzBig, an online candidate/job opening matching company, has officially shut its doors. The company was launched just over a year ago with much fanfare and instantly received a great [...]

By: Rafael Cosentino

Rafael Cosentino — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:59:52 +0000

I have never seen the profile builder on itzbig so it may have taken 30 or 60 minutes which would of course have an extremely high abandon rate by everyone. Job seekers on our site build a matching profile in less then 180 seconds and so far we have 2.3 million profiles built. I cannot speak for the other “matching sites” but I don’t think getting the profile is the hard part. There are 2 barriers we have had to overcome.

Critical mass – You need tens of thousands of jobs to create any value for job seekers. You need hundreds of thousands of profiles to create value for employers. This is usually not attained and this is what leaves a wake of frustrated job seekers and employers.

Matching – You need an algorithm that can take the information captured by both sides and connect the best ones.

Again, I don’t think capturing information (profile building) was the problem but I have never seen their profile builder.