Comments on: hotjobs on fire

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:39:24 +0000

This is more tended to the recruiter, not the job seeker. HotJobs unique visitor numbers are down and will continue to be down. So in retrospect, HotJobs is turning into a ‘recruiter’ board and not a place for job seekers to connect with companies. Whif.

By: gregg dourgarian

gregg dourgarian — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:56:41 +0000

Hi Vanessa…How was the show itself aside from the bon vivants in the French quarter? Were there really a lot of genuine non-vendor attendees there to drink the Hotjob/twitter integration kool-aid?

I’d wager that 10 times more consequential stuff took place in the recruiting innovation world not at some trade show but in some innocuous cubicle at Google/Bing/CB/Facebook/Craigs take your pick.

Ross…I agree with the 15 yard piling-on penalty re death-to-big-job-boards. After all these years, “They’re still dying.”

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:18:10 +0000

Isn’t the article about advancements in the recruiting industry? Why must everyone’s comments lead to “death of big job board!”??

Good for Hotjobs, at least they are trying

By: techhiringguru

techhiringguru — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:25:12 +0000

Well I can tell you from experience in small recruiting companies to Fortune 50 Technology firms the spend on Major job boards is decreasing and has in most cases ceased altogether.

The current pricing structure for Monster, Hotjobs and Careerbuilder is painful for recruiting budgets in a big company the cost is about 1 million plus and that’s only for about 25 agressive recruiters! So imagine of you have 300+ recruiters, it adds up quickly.

I’ve discovered that in the past, 95% of the corporate technical recruiters were overworked with 25 – 85 requisitions per recruiter and that just isn’t the case now.

So Hotjobs may be dancing now but I guarantee you won’t see the same number of Hotjobs reps next year because the full affect of their loses are only about half right now.

By: Bruzzy Von Pennington

Bruzzy Von Pennington — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:30:44 +0000

HotJobs is a Hot Steamer, the site and performance is awful. No matter what they do, everyone knows their product is lame. If Hot Jobs charges $50,000, then if I was a recruiter I’d simply offer to pay $10,000 the next year, guarantee they take it.

By: Thyaga

Thyaga — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:09:37 +0000

Good to hear that hotjobs is alive and making progress. I see this as a sign of confidence and the new CEO at Yahoo may have committed resources to grow this business.

WizTalent is supporting integration with Hotjobs as one of the resume sources for recruiting.