Here’s a look at a few “next generation job sites” and what I think of them.
Jackalope Jobs – this site lets you sign in with facebook or linkedin and see what jobs are available through your connections.
MY TAKE: I can see the value for seeing which jobs your connections have. However I consider this a feature every job board will eventually add. As social becomes more intertwined with or lives it will creep into job search as well. Will this site succeed? I doubt it. There is no clear revenue model and you can already do the same thing on SimplyHired with their Linkedin integration. If they were smart they’d use the Indeed.com api to put their social layer on top of that.
But kudos to Jackalope because they got a mention on Mashable recently.
http://mashable.com/2012/07/14/jackalope-jobs/
Jobs Miner – this site is a job search engine that mines social media sites for job listings.
MY TAKE: Ok its a novel idea. On the surface I like the idea of checking facebook, linkedin, etc for jobs. The problem is that most of the jobs they find have already been posted on job sites elsewhere. Most job boards send their jobs to twitter already so the job seeker is not likely to find anything new here. Jobs Miner does check blogs and forums also but I dont know many recruiters who bother to put jobs in these places. While the technology of the site seems first rate I dont have much hope that they will succeed. Other than some Adsense I dont see any way to make money with a site like this.
GetHired.com – an A to Z way to hire including video resumes.
MY TAKE: This product seems to do everything and that may be its problem. It claims to streamline the hiring process for companies by including an ATS, a way to schedule applicants and screen them through video. A company considering this service has to think long and hard if they are going to trust all these functions to a relatively young company. Thats their first issue. Then you have to convince companies to use video resumes and interviewing which is an entirely different hurdle. GetHired has been advertising like crazy on sites like ere.net so they are clearly burning through a lot of money at this point. These startups that come from the west coast always think they disrupt the online recruiting market but that almost always seem to fail. The only ones they have really made a dent have been SimplyHired and Jobvite.