JobThread has hired Rod Garcia as its new vice president of sales.
Garcia was formerly a senior sales executive with Yahoo! HotJobs and has held sales positions in the technology and retail sectors. He has a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Maryland.
“Based on my experience working with recruiters and employers, I believe that JobThread is the right model to meet their challenges head-on,” Garcia said. “Our targeted approach is proven to deliver qualified candidates based on specific criteria, which is something this industry has needed for a long time. I am very excited to bring the JobThread model to the market.”
JobThread, which serves as an ad network for jobs, targets passive and active job seekers based on their behavior, skills, interests and locations. In addition to ads, JobThread also provides contextually relevant content.
“I am thrilled to have Rod leading our sales efforts,” CEOJason Wies said “Rod has a tremendous depth of experience and a sterling reputation in the recruitment ad industry. He will greatly accelerate JobThread’s penetration among recruitment agencies and companies in all categories of business.”
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August 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
YIKES
August 25th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Rod who? When you say “sales executive” you mean to say account executive. He was a sales guy…not a manager. Great hire…LOL.
Seriously…you thought this was news? I think this blog gets paid for some of this “info”.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Rod…a senior sales executive? Only if you count being the oldest person on a team of new hires in the lowest division possible at HotJobs, then yes, Rod certianly is senior….in age, not sucess or experience.
Good luck with a guy that hit his quota once in the last 8 quarters. You got yourself a real winner there Job Thread. Guess he bilked you like you will with your nonsense products there.
August 27th, 2009 at 9:24 am
JobThread is a smaller company than Yahoo! HotJobs, that should come as no surprise to anyone…so one doesn’t know what the responsibilities of the VP of Sales are at JobThread. However, it would be safe to say that he isn’t managing a sales force of 500+ people. Let’s compare apples to apples here people.
For all we know, Rod could be the only sales rep at JobThread pounding the phones all day–doing what he did in his career at HotJobs.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It’s great to assume that you know things…but you know what they say about people who assume.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
This was brought to my attention by several of my former colleagues and I’d like to point out that Rod is a great sales person. Based on his experience and ability to generate new business, Rod 100% deserves this position and will undoubtedly succeed in this new role.
…I’m guessing Rod won’t be hiring any of you outspoken HotJobs employees if the opportunity would present itself. Good luck Rod.
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August 27th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Some of these comments are very disturbing to read. I don’t know this gentlemen, but if you have a beef with him… take it up directly.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
There are definitely a lot of haters out there! Rod always performed formed at a high level, and will be very successful in his new role! They even hated on Jesus, your in good company Bro!
August 27th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
I know this gentlemen well…Rod is a complete professional and whoever would post this clearly has never worked directly with him”…Immature of anyone to leave that comment, especially leaving it as anonymous
August 28th, 2009 at 11:18 am
I know a lot of people in the online recruitment business and its no wonder they are all so angry. The industry sucks..no one is making any money, everyone is living off of borrowed promises and VC money. Too many player making too much noise in a quicklly dying market with zero demand. Move along people….nothing to see here but a dying industry.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I had the chance to work with Rod Garcia and he added a sense of excitement to a sales floor that was full of negative energy due to the struggling economy. As we all know the job market was taking a turn for the worse about 9 months prior to the “recession” news. Even through the chaos Rod was able to add a sense of excitement, levity, yet still be able to get down to business every day. There were many night when Garcia and I would be working past the rest of the office still getting in touch with clients and adding as much “added-value” for our customers as possible.
As for the other comments, people should remember that whatever we post to the internet stays on the internet forever. People should treat one another with mutual respect and do nothing but wish this professional well!
Best of luck,
Rod
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:34 am
Rob is a great guy with a solid work ethic…best of luck to him and everyone else should stop hating
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 am
I had the pleasure of working with Rod at Hot Jobs and have nothing but positive things to say about my former co-worker. Rod is a great sales person and always exceeded his quota every quarter. Even through rough economic times, and a terrible job market, rod was able to bring a sense of humor and liveliness to the office while maintaining a solid work ethic.
To the hj haters above: you should be disgusted with yourselves.
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:35 am
I don’t know Rod, but as a recruiter, I’ve been on the receiving end of some highly questionable Yahoo/Hot Jobs sales calls through the years. The most vivid example being when a rep called to say that my business partner had requested that I sign up for a demo (lie) and that he had scheduled it on my behalf for that day (lie). Let’s hope Rod wasn’t a part of that particular group think because sleazy doesn’t even begin to describe their antics.