Comments on: hotjobs introduces pay per candidate

By: Luka

Luka — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:02:09 +0000

I don’t agree with the pay per candidate model. It seems to me that a large employer would not receive sufficient numbers of candidates and smaller employers would wind up paying more for a listing this way than the previous method. I stick with the basic sites like monster.com, plus a few free ones like uvisor.com . I prefer a company that can actually save ME money!

By: CCirvine

CCirvine — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:14:49 +0000

I like this move a LOT from HotJobs. From what they’ve shown me, the brilliance will be in the screeners — only pay for the qualified candidates instead of the “post and pray” model that the other big boards force on you. No longer do you have to buy into their national traffic numbers as rationale for their high prices. Yes, you are putting in money up front, but what…a month’s worth of a Monster contract to get mostly all qualified candidates for a year? (that is if you build your screeners right…think about it) I keep reading about HotJobs as the “worse performing job board” but are you looking for quantity or quality? It’s worth the minimal risk to try, imo.

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By: ukprince

ukprince — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:47:37 +0000

HJER – You see that Realmatch explained very nicely how they reach 37 million people and why its more efficient. I agree with this as we also have a syndication vs destination strategy too. But he als does something which makes his comments much more credible then yours. He actually posts with his real name and real identity. You’ll notice he is the only person here that does so. So he is the only one that comes across as credible as he is the only one that is accountable for his comments. You are not accountable therefore you are full of Sheet. I doubt you even work for Hotjobs.

By: HJer

HJer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:03:46 +0000

Rafael, you’re missing the point. She didn’t use M, but she did mention million and RealMatch doesn’t have a million of anything.

And to call someone a neophyte when you’ve been in the business for year is pretty laughable.

By: Fakename

Fakename — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:22:37 +0000

To the Hotjobs commenters – This guy is baiting you with each post…and you fall for it each time. You look like morons. If you dont want to talk about Realmatch, stop talking about it!

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:49:54 +0000

Amy – We were dragged into this post like several others, just look up. We don’t mind being the topic at all. We definitely have less employers then hotjobs but as “pay-to-post” continues to lose customers, you won’t retain your customers with that argument. You’ll need to have a better product to keep them, that’s all the customer is interested in. Perhaps we could choose a job and metro area, both post the jobs and have a credible 3rd party judge the applicants? Let us know if HotJobs is up to the challenge.

Anonymous – With regard to our PR, we’ll take kudos and props in articles from third parties like WSJ, About.com, Bizjournals and Entrepreneur.com over a copied obviously last minute ditch effort press release any day. With regard to the M behind the number 36, I think you were talking to Hjer. Do the names separating comments get a little confusing for ya darling?

All too easy, good times!

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:52:03 +0000

It again shows the job boards having their focus fully on the employer side while missing the candidate side. If they get it right on the candidate side, employers will take whatever model they offer.

Reaching out and getting job postings from company sites (with some form of vetting for duplication, company brand trust, etc.) would probably get good candidate volumes, and with good filtering (which seems to be worked on in the above mentioned model) employers would be more than happy to pay.

Quality job postings, quality candidates, what else does a job board really need to offer? But wait! how about career management assistant built in for candidates (using openid) with integration into social media, personal web pages, etc? Now I am waiting for such a job board (should it be called by a better name?)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:26:54 +0000

Jennifer – going w/ the any PR is good PR tact? Another brilliant pick up for Realmatch! Rafaesmell must have attracted you from a Cheezhead post.

Btw…when you add a M at the end of the number it means million. When you list your network size at 36M…I think you mean 36k darling. Its OK…letters are confusing.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:44:26 +0000

I’m glad that Realmatch has sent all 8 of its employees to comment on this story. Do they always spam the blogs like this…and is it always this transparent?