Comments on: new jobfox feature is like indeed, but not free

By: S

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:01:58 +0000

What about hound? And is indeed the best for mid to senior level job seekers (higher manager, director level?

Thanks,

By: john

john — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:19:21 +0000

DO NOT spend any money on this! The entire concept is a scam. If there are so called “experts” working on this, Jobfox needs to fire them. I have never seen such a cluster***k of crap in my life. The supposed company vs recruiter job reports is a joke. None of the direct employers are actually direct at all. They are all recruiting companies – and many of the jobs give the link for 2-3 different job boards where the job is posted. I think that even the greenest job seeker would find that to have the same job posted on several boards is a bad thing. I wouldn’t spend a dime using the service when I could go to other sites for free. Jobfox needs to decide what they are doing. Looks like they are going to abandon the matching. Trying to be the next Indeed/Simply Hired at a price is the wrong way to go.

By: hungry

hungry — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:06:12 +0000

I hope the people who sign up for this at least get a free lunch at Maggiano’s out of the deal.

By: Be real for once

Be real for once — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:34:02 +0000

Experts? Come on!

Just say what it is. There are multiple platforms out there that can do this with no human interaction. Don’t tell the few candidates you have left that you have experts doing real work. Unless the few employees who are left are doing it.

This is like Google saying that there is a huge call center that does the work once you plug in your key words.

I guess Rob (John Conner) McGovern does not want skynet to take over!

FYI Rob – craigslist is still here and there are multiple classified sites who are doing very well and growing. Can you say Kijiji, Oodle, Craigslist, etc…etc…

Just close the doors already.

By: Facetime

Facetime — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:12:39 +0000

If JobFox went through a substantial layoff in Feb and they aren’t back-filling other positions where people have left the company, then please tell me who these research experts are? Seems to me that they are throwing stuff out there to see what sticks – matching, resume pal (which I’m still not sure what it does) and now this.

By: Copywriter

Copywriter — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:39:31 +0000

I tried the free-trial. It was worse than worthless. If I wanted to auto-scrape Craigslist and YahooJobs for low-rent jobs, I could use any number of free services.

By: Michaela

Michaela — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:11:38 +0000

Very interesting about Jobfox. Just a few years ago, when Rob McGovern was asked about Craigslist he said: “think that five years from now we’re all going to look back and say that the idea–call it a “dumb classified”–is dead”. Now he is pulling jobs from Craigslist in this new feature as well as Monster and Careerbuilder.

The fact that Jobfox is going into this direction AT ALL is because their matching technology simply does not work. Now, in order for them to get money out of candidates, they have to do the same thing as Indeed and Simply Hired? It seems sort of bizarre to me that the Jobfox team would even consider this sort of scheme especially given how different they make themselves out to be – and how badly Rob McGovern trashed other sites when he introduced Jobfox.

How many more gimmicks are they going to add to the Advantage program to make seekers think it’s worth it? Probably never. Maybe they should have followed the “dumb classified” route.

By: John

John — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:49:12 +0000

jf is aimlessly scrambling in every direction, feel sorry for them

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By: John

John — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:46:03 +0000

A research team who review jobs from other job sites? I hate how Jobfox is always referring to their expert teams when it’s probably just culling from all of the job boards… hmm haven’t seen that before.

@Mark Drees… pimping is the perfect word for what Jobfox is doing.