Comments on: getting rich off the unemployed

By: Danny Iny

Danny Iny — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:57:23 +0000

Danny Iny here – the guy behind HuntingToHired (www.HuntingToHired.com), the site that Vanessa referred to above as “a bunch of articles”.

I think for the most part Vanessa does good work – she writes well and offers good advice and insight. And I appreciate her taking a stand for people she felt were being taken advantage of, because there really are too many scammy businesses out there.

Mine isn’t one of them. For one, there’s way more content than she let on – over 100 pages of text, over 4 hours of interviews with experts plus worksheets and other resources. And there are forums where subscribers can ask questions and get answers on anything they need.

I charge on a subscription basis so that people can cancel as soon as they feel they don’t need it any more. I also offer a no-questions-asked money-back guarantee for the first month – I don’t take money from anyone who doesn’t feel they’re getting real value.

I know what it’s like looking for work, and I’ve hired employees for my businesses (www.MaestroReading.com) – so I know the job search looks like from both sides of the table. My consulting work (www.DannyIny.com) is about helping businesses figure out what value they have to offer, to whom it’s valuable, and then how to communicate that value. This is exactly what job-seekers need to be doing!

I started this site after helping people close to me find work. I spent the better part of a year consulting with experts, gathering source material and developing the content. The people using it are free to leave at any time, but they stay. Maybe there’s a good reason.

I’m not trying to hard-sell anybody. If you want to see what it’s about, then go to the website and sign up for the free eBook. No cost involved. No strings attached. Make your own judgments.

Danny Iny

By: Dia

Dia — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:44:45 +0000

I’d never pay to post my resume anywhere. And I agree with much of what you say about the huntingtobehired site, seems like a novice in job search and I wouldn’t pay a nickel for his service or for anything like a jobfox.

But I do feel that many people need help with their job search. I used a former world-class recruiter with 30 years experience who now helps executives fine-tune their job search for a fee. He coaches you through every step of the process and this guy is a no joke, hard charging pro at this stuff. I won’t publish his name because he won’t accept anyone as a client who is not referred by someone he already knows, but he is well worth his hefty fee. Something like this is really needed by many people who are not executives and can’t afford to pay big money. Yes, there is a lot of information on the web, too much, who has time to read it all and much of it is conflicting. A job search is a lot of work these days and some people could use expert one-on-one help.

By: Si Conroy

Si Conroy — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:45:27 +0000

Vanessa. Couldn’t agree more. We’re fortunate in the UK in that our recruitment legislation prohibits the charging of job seekers for the provision of jobs. This makes job board owners really work themselves (and people like us at Madgex as their outsourced job board software vendors) to innovate hard to monetize the recruiters in multiple ways; whilst enhancing the user experience and brand engagement to ensure the right people and jobs come together.

By: monsterlover1@gmail.com

monsterlover1@gmail.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:21:36 +0000

Job Fax, the ladders – these are all scams. What busy professional has time to sit there, log in, pay and then get jobs? The only ones that go to these sites it seems are people who have more than enough time on their hands – unemployed? If I was an employer, I would want someone who was employed that passively saw my job =, applied and moved on – no registration, no logging in – what usy professional has time for that? I think you will see job fox and theladders switch their money making model since employers want the best ROI in these troubled times – how can they rely on a site that makes their job seejers pay?

By: Rafael

Rafael — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:40:38 +0000

Any offering that charges a job seeker a fee to help them find a job seems very fishy to me. I guess in this environment of higher unemployment this strategy seems like a good way to make money but I am positive that mid and long term, it will destroy a brand with employers and job seekers. After looking at the market a lot more sites then I realized do charge the job seeker. The win with this model is creating a CPA which is less than the job seeker pays…so what if they don’t get a job or ever come back. When you have someone that pays you and you can get the conversion to work, you can spend a ton on marketing and simply churn users. Again, not the way to grow long term in my opinion.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:01:03 +0000

Vanessa,
I appreciate you following up on an email I sent to you earlier this week asking to shed some light about the Jobfox Certifiation offering and the vagueness of it’s purpose and cost. I question whether or not Jobfox will reimburse any seekers who did buy if the pilot program fizzles.