Pay to post – The guarantee by the provide is that the job will be entered into their sites job database, featured on a page and made available in search result pages. There is no other guarantee as to viewership, clicks, number of resumes, quality etc. you could get 500 resumes or none. If your goal is to make sure that your job exists inside the database of a website, I would recommend this model.

Pay per click – The guarantee by the provider is that a human being will click the link to your job and you can buy as many clicks as you like. If your goal is to make sure lots of humans click your job, I would recommend this model.

Pay per resume – The guarantee by the provider is that if you find the profile of a candidate that meets your definition of qualified you can choose to open their resume for a fee. If your goal is to remove the risk and ensure that you only pay when you see something that interests you, I would recommend this model.

I realize that sounds a little sarcastic and I don’t mean it to be but when you start thinking about what an employer’s goals are and how they can be aligned to ensure the provider delivers results, this is what it bolis down to. Job boards are like cloths stores, there is a lot of them and most of them don’t have what you like or what fits you. The difference in job boards and cloths stores is that cloths stores can only sell what they have on the shelf. But I like what job boards have done with pricing…If I ran a cloths store I would just love to charge at the front door before the customer could actually see how bare my shelves really are.

These are really primarily ad models – and based simply on traffic numbers. The discussion was more about sites that have actual employers actively posting jobs or using the resume databases and using other site tools for a fee – and positioning performance based recruiting tools like matching models in the offering. Indeed and Simplyhired don’t as of yet really offer this. They grab their jobs from competing job boards and turn some of them into customers.

CareerCast exclusively lists jobs only from sites it powers – and does allow employers to post job directly but only on behalf of it’s clients sites, as can be reviewed in the employer/ecommerce section. CareerCast/Adicio is also providing virtual job fairs, candidate matching, candidate skills screening tools and all their other ad enhancement tools that are integrated with job postings to their job board client sites. CareerCast fully and seemlesly integrates these many technologies into it’s job board so that employers and candidates don’t lose the experience they were using on the member sites.

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