Comments on: monster did it first

By: Jason Kerr

Jason Kerr — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:24:53 +0000

Of course ‘pay-per-candidate you interview’ has been our model at QuietAgent from day 1 – why should you pay if you do not succeed?

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Follow that Monster / CB.

By: Dr Doom

Dr Doom — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:17:47 +0000

This all leads to price erosion. Keep digging boys we will shovel our way out of this hole. 2009 recession changed the game forever there is no going back, revenues are not coming back to pre-recession levels and now all the big boys are undercutting each other racing to the bottom. Like Monster Founder Bill Warren said “The days of the big, expensive job boards are over.” Q2 earnings should be fun for everyone in the industry.

By: Jon Davidson

Jon Davidson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:25:39 +0000

With such a densely packed pool of available talent in the marketplace and employers having such easy access to social media sites such as Linked-In, why would an employer need to pay $15 to view a run-of-the-mill candidate who has been spotted more places than Elvis?

By: Josh Greenfield

Josh Greenfield — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:41:04 +0000

We’re certainly the smallest company trying it…we’ve (ZAPOINT.COM) been in the PPCandidate game for about 7 months now, and are too in Beta. We call it ‘cost per introduction’. Unfortunatly, Monster and Yahoo (two dying giants)get all the love.

The idea was a natural progression for this and any other search industry.

Josh

By: Monster Releases Candidate Spotlight | Jobs Portal Watch

Monster Releases Candidate Spotlight | Jobs Portal Watch — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:06:40 +0000

[...] Cheezhead reports that Monster launched the pay-per-candidate model in five test cities late last year: Boston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Cleveland. [...]

By: Gal Almog

Gal Almog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:51:46 +0000

This is not pay for performance anymore then Yahoo’s is pay for performance. If you read the Monster PDF you will very clearly see -

A) These $15 candidates are not for job postings, they are passive/database matches

B) If you want to see these candidate spotlights, you have to buy a job posting FIRST then they will allow you to purchase additional candidate profiles for $15 each.

I think they should rename this model “pay-to-post” at regular prices then pay more for each additional profile you need because the initial job posting bought didn’t work. Monster, Careerbuilder, Hotjobs etc cannot offer pay for performance pricing because it would mean giving up all their existing revenue and starting over.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:12:39 +0000

Indeed launched a pay-per-applicant product in 2007 and it has been successfully used by our clients ever since. The beta release was announced in May of that year, here:
http://blog.indeed.com/2007/05/15/indeed-launches-ppa-pay-per-action-pay-per-applicant-beta/

Paul
CEO, Indeed