Comments on: what’s cooking at jobkabob?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:06:47 +0000

Fantastic site !
I realy love it and think it`s realy useful !
I think I will be visiting it often in future !

By: Vanessa Dennis

Vanessa Dennis — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:46:59 +0000

Here’s a response from the man himself, CEO Warren Bare:

Hi Vanessa,

I tell my guys that the very first goal in any business should be to make people so happy that they want to tell their friends. Jobkabob was broken from that perspective.

Jobkabob was growing in terms of both traffic and revenue, but doing so with marketing dollars at the expense of the bottom line (not because we were thrilling people). As soon as it became clear that we were not going to make a dent in the universe, I made the decision to focus the company on the one area where people were really happy: job distribution.

Jobkabob is now a very simple tool which is cash flow positive and is making people happy enough to tell their friends. From a practical perspective the traffic dropped off a cliff because we no longer require job seekers to return to the Jobkabob site to fill out a profile. This is good for the job posters because their response rate goes up, but bad for us because we don’t get credit in terms of visibility. We simply distribute jobs to free site around the Internet for a “virtually free” price.

In terms of new development, it is true that we had built some very interesting resume technology at Jobkabob. We pulled that out, and will be launching a beta version of a resume search product for small-shop recruiters next month. We have a place holder site at http://www.SplitSeconds.com.

We believe there is a real opportunity to help recruiters that don’t want cumbersome applicant tracking software. We will start with a very simple but powerful resume search product for recruiters own resumes. Eventually we believe can use new technology to help recruiters in several areas, but our first goal will be to simply make them so happy they want to tell their friends.

Best Regards,
Warren Bare

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:36:37 +0000

Unfortunately I didn’t see JobkaBob before it dropped the job board and Resume functions but I have to ask –

What were they thinking?

Why drop something so valuable and lose so much. I hope the new future is awfully bright to make up for this ‘change’.

By: Dennis Gorelik

Dennis Gorelik — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:55:13 +0000

So what you are saying is that JobkaBob dropped core working functionality just in order to start development of some mystic new feature?

That’s a clear sign that something is broken inside of organization that’s running JobkaBob.

I believe that there is nothing to expect from JobkaBob in the future except of total disappearance.

BTW, could you make a follow-up story about GoJobbby.com.
http://www.cheezhead.com/2007/04/22/gojobby/

Now GoJobby.com totally annihilated by Jobster.com
See: http://www.GoJobby.com