Comments on Silicon MBA: Are paid job postings sites dead?

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It is getting easier these days to syndicate your ...

2009-04-08T13:59:00.000-07:00

It is getting easier these days to syndicate your news. Digg, Twitter, Friendfeed and even Facebook make it easier to get the word out to the right community. And for sure it is way too easy to send a job alert out to the community through one of those services.

The next decade will see dramatic changes on how we find jobs and how we get recruited. Social Media and mobile technologies will be at the forefront. While big job portals of today will be but dinasaurs from the dotcom boom era. A legacy of the past.

But then that would require indeed and simply hire...

2009-04-08T12:22:00.000-07:00

But then that would require indeed and simply hired to host the postings themselves...which would require a large allotment of servers...and those cost would be passed on to whom? The employer! It could fluctuate, but advertising is a cost, regardless of what you're promoting...

And in today's job market the trends for ads aren't giving any site real favors...

Sure, so eventually small companies will just post...

2009-04-08T10:24:00.000-07:00

Sure, so eventually small companies will just post directly to Indeed or SimplyHired.

It's not that paid posting sites are going to go away completely, but the trends are not in their favor.

Larger company sites do show up at times on these ...

2009-04-08T10:14:00.000-07:00

Larger company sites do show up at times on these aggregators, but for small to medium business who may not update their website as much, or have the resources to run an effective jobs page, this really isn't the case.

The bigger boards give companies like these a better standing amongst their competition when broadcasting open positions. If they shut down overnight, a majority of the aggregators product would be lost...

SimplyHired and Indeed actually get quite a few of...

2009-04-08T09:39:00.000-07:00

SimplyHired and Indeed actually get quite a few of their jobs directly from employers' applicant tracking systems.

Over time, i think the percentage of jobs vertical search sites get directly from employers will only grow.

I think one big flaw in this argument is that site...

2009-04-08T06:24:00.000-07:00

I think one big flaw in this argument is that sites like indeed and simply hired are still pulling the majority of their jobs from paid job sites like CB, Monster, Dice, and even local niche sites...if these go away, the "free" services mentioned won't have anything to put on their shelves...

Govind, thanks for the comment. I think if you can...

2009-04-07T15:03:00.000-07:00

Govind, thanks for the comment. I think if you can pull off building vertical search in these markets, it could be pretty lucrative and scalable.

Most vertical search sites (at least in the jobs space) are really just SEO plays that rely on Google for most of their traffic. I'll be curious to see if Google ever decides to shut them out for somewhat questionable tactics.

This is great observation... The vertical search e...

2009-04-07T14:50:00.000-07:00

This is great observation... The vertical search engines are clearly the next big change in Search industry.

In many domains, current services simply rely on submissions by vendors, e.g., jobs (companies put ads on monster), or apartment rentals (landlord post ads on rent.com or craigslist), or even online shopping (vendors put feeds on nextag or pricegrabber).

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