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Just as it gets to be less simple to be hired in Australia (it’s a Thursday, that’s as witty as I can be before the week’s end), Simply Hired launched this week their local Australia site – together with other English-based sites around the world.

Job search engines have received some air time a while back (not all of it great, e.g. content snatchers, blah blah), mainly via myspider.com.au, Ansearch’s jobsinoz and recruit.net (for which I did a bit of consulting back in the day).

I think their role in the ecosystem is still in the making (i.e. distribution partner to job boards? to direct employers? alternative to a niche strategy?… well we have the whole economic downturn to work it out.

I hope you are having a nice week

I had the chance to be email-viewed by Brett Iredale from Nowhiring on matters recruit.net. Give it a read, it might help understand a bit more the difference between a job board and a job search engine; you can also get the scoop on how it is partnering with one of the top three job boards in Oz.

And just to ensure that you know this has more than sentimental value, there is one hot lead out of the post.

Back in the day when I was responsible for the Hudson sites, we were pretty safe to bet on fresh content to encourage repeat visitors: new jobs and current salary data were consistently the most popular sections of the sites.

This was not a surprise: professionals always want to benchmark themselves especially as they move jobs, and hiring managers and HR people also wanted to stay informed on how well they were paying (or not).

This came to mind when I got wind that from today recruit.net was including salary data at job level (or its closest approximate) in its summary results page. Interestingly, the salary data comes from Payscale, a well-known online provider of remuneration info in the US. I must admit, I was gladly surprised they had information for the region (recruit.net has kicked off the service for Australia and India first).

I’ve had a few clicks and I would say the salary brackets shown are indicative enough; there are also a few blanks for the more obscure roles but I expect the information to get richer. The pay off for Payscale is that visitors can continue from the recruit.net links onto ordering for a personalised salary report (you can order a basic one for free too)

I think there’s still appetite for salary data, so I expect the widget will be pretty useful for job seekers. Give it a go!

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Simply Hired, a vertical search engine, is now powering job search in MySpace UK, the first integration outside the one in the US. It might just be that SH is Myspace’s (News’?) jobs strategy globally, which in the medium term has to have implication for careerone. We will surely continue filling in the blanks when careerone releases its site, which I understand is was in the last legs of heavy testing.

Also related: Cheesman does not believe that Simply Hired will be gobbled up by Google

The online recruitment market in Asia is still far behind that of the United States, according to Maneck Mohan, director of Recruit.net. In Recruit.net’s markets, Australia is the most mature and China the least developed in the transition from traditional offline media job postings to online postings.

article from workforce management – march ’07

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I wanted to (officially) share my good news; and I do hope it’s good news for the whole online recruitment advertising space in Australia. I have been given the opportunity to run a business development project for Recruit.net, a job search engine (think Google for jobs) headquartered in Hong Kong and focused on the Asia and Oceania regions.

Recruit.net soft-launched in June last year and has slowly but surely been aggregating and indexing job ads from job boards, recruitment agencies listings, online networks and employer career websites. If you visit the Australia channel today you will find around half a million searchable local job ads from all the abovementioned sources. In the context of such volumes, which are only going to grow, relevancy of search results will be key to add value to the job seeking experience.

My brief in Australia is to spread the word to agencies and corporate recruiters on the features and benefits of vertical search and its impact on recruitment advertising on the web. In the process, I hope to add to the options both job seekers and advertisers have at their disposal online.

If you want me to come and see you to talk further about Recruit.net, don’t be shy and shoot me an email jorge@recruit.net