In chronological order
Exhibit A: Facebook offering free classifieds
Exhibit B: Fred Wilson’s ‘does information want to be free’ preso (pdf)
Exhibit C: Google Base API available for classifieds galore and ancillary mashups since late last year (see example applications)
Exhibit D: Sumser’s free classifieds on his 2005 review
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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.
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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
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Subsequent to my online marketing article, Joel Cheesman, SEO specialist for the recruitment industry has written an article on how to use MySpace as a recruitment tool . You could argue that the volumes he refers to are those relevant to the US; however my understanding is that Australians are becoming an increasingly larger mass of users on MySpace after the aussie channel was launched last year. In any case, most of his hints are pretty valid and relevant for us.
Again, here’s the piece. And when you register don’t forget to invite me as your friend
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