A few years back Indeed.com was bought by a Japanese firm Recruit Co. for a reported billion dollars. I’m not sure anyone ever pinged the exact number at the time but this blog post from one of their investors, Fred Wilson, says it was $1.4 billion to be exact. My favorite example of this is…
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Resumes Want to be Free
I like Indeed’s resume platform. It’s super easy to search and source candidates. And its essentially free for most companies. If you sponsor jobs they throw it in for free. Otherwise its just a dollar to contact any candidate via email. And for job seekers its a great way of being discovered since the resume…
Jobs boards are becoming ATS’s
Don’t look now but the big job boards are turning into ATS (applicant tracking systems) and the ATS is becoming a job board. Yes they are all morphing into the same thing right before our eyes. As my evidence I’m going to use 2 popular sites: ZipRecruiter and Indeed.com. Indeed started out as an aggregator,…
Job boards in the news
Here’s a look at whats happening in the job board world. [youtube]http://youtu.be/mjrCye350HA[/youtube]
Indeed adds endorsements to resumes, on collision course with Linkedin
Breaking News: Indeed.com, the big boy of job sites just added endorsements to its resumes product. They just took a page out of Linkedin’s playbook and fired a warning shot across their bow. Wow. I think this is a big deal and signals a quiet new war happening in the online recruiting space. As industry…
Job Boards in the news
Here’s some news about job boards that crossed my desk recently. OneWire is a financial version of LinkedIn for Wall Street Manhattan-based OneWire, an online financial services venture, allows both recruiters to post highly detailed job listings and job seekers to apply for positions. Founders Brin McCagg and Skiddy von Stade have raised $30 million…
Backfill shootout: Indeed vs Jobamatic (premium)
Q. What are the pros and cons of Indeed vs. Jobamatic? Good question my reader asks. Here’s a quick breakdown of each and its capabilities. SIMPLY HIRED’S JOBAMATIC Pro: Free hosting Pro: Two ways to earn: clicks and postings Pro: lots of jobs Pro: setup quickly and easily Pro: xml feed available Con: design limitations…
Tip for leveraging aggregators
Here my view of Aggregators like Indeed and SimplyHired and how to leverage their use for your job boards benefit.