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

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

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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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

related article

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

From vadd

Technically, the implementation may be replicated rapidly, though it seems to me that this is one of the value-add areas for aggregators: increasing relevance and ease of access to collated results. In that context, How do job boards and corporate career websites fit in the value chain? Do they focus on employment branding? niche community nurturing? ATS services? non-classified ancillary businesses to increase their candidate sourcing capabilities?

Just launched last week, we have a ton of things to do still (in publick -sic- beta) but please do take a look and would love to get your feedback and comments

Of particular sentimental value is the Australia channel, but I won’t hold it against them if they decided to focus on China and India

The site claims 1.4 plus million job results, of which jobs in china are 1/2 mill. Results quality mixed, but it is really early stages.

Would be interested to see if a first mover advantage in the region is a sustainable source of leadership in what are the fastest growing economies in the world. What with Simply Hired using the myspace implementation and, in general, the News association getting them to think pan-US soon.

Have a look

belated reference to michael who reported about recruit.net last week