Comments on: latpro ceo launches job search engine

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:52:52 +0000

Is there a reason JustJobs is displaying the full job description after you click on the job title from the search result page? Indeed and SimplyHired do not work this way – they bring you directly to the actual site where the original job resides.

This seems more like a job board than a search engine, yet its taking advantage of the aggregator model. Is this appropriate?

By: eric shannon

eric shannon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:00:07 +0000

FlipDog was a great site until it was purchased and ruined!

Which reminds me that neither Indeed nor SimplyHired were really new either when they launched if you want to ignore details. The really ‘new stuff’ strongly favored by the press, almost always ends up going nowhere. There is so much new stuff out there, you could spend your days reading about it and never finish.

And that reminds me how the best ‘new’ features job boards create for recruiters, including ones I have personally found useful in my own recruiting end up being used by a small minority…

So, ‘new’ is not exactly the target. If it grows, that’s because it works and does something of value that wasn’t being done before – that’s new enough for me.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:41:43 +0000

Another job search engine. Nothing really different about this site, just the fact it will take job listings from other job websites, but with that there is still only a narrow pool of jobs submitted. All these sites are linked together and have a mutual list of careers. Nothing really new here.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:24:41 +0000

Eric is a great voice in our industry, but this seems like FlipDog all over again.

By: eric shannon

eric shannon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:09:31 +0000

Well, I like being the underdog and am happy to serve as your punching bag if the doubters are correct – check back with me in three more years and I’ll tell it like it is.

In the meantime, as long as we are able to create value for our partners and users where there was none before and see the project growing – we will give it more gas.

“That ship has sailed” thinking would have torpedoed many great success stories including plentyoffish.com which is one of my favorites.

Thanks for your kind words Joe!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:46:37 +0000

All..Although to some it may seem to late or there are too many in the field… regardless congrats should be given to Eric for sticking with the plan/dream for so many years and launching the site. He easily could have given up but instead push forwarded and launched where others may have given up. Congrats Eric.

By: Please

Please — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:13:51 +0000

That ship has sailed. Indeed and Simply Hired are too far ahead. Maybe TopUSAJobs, Juju, and JustJobs should combine to pool their 1M uniques.

By: Jill Czeczuga

Jill Czeczuga — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:21:39 +0000

I appreciate Eric and his work but this just seems 3 1/2 years too late! I, like Eric, ask the same question he did in his announcement -Does the world really need another job search engine? It seems like the idea of a search engine is to have one place to search – how many hairs do we need to split before we have nothing left!

By: SEM

SEM — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:35:59 +0000

Maybe he should start a job fair search engine. That would be a new idea. This site alone…isn’t.