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Jun11

Google, Please Make a Job Site!

For the life of me I can’t figure out why Dice and Monster have been so successful. For job seekers; the process of posting your resume and developing a profile is less then quick and intuitive. For employers like us, the cost of posting an opening and searching their resume database is a bit too much. Alternatives like 37Signals’ Job Board work well for our industry but they don’t offer the geo-targeted resumes which we are looking for.

So why hasn’t Google created a free competitor to Dice and Monster which is subsidized by ad revenue or charges a nominal fee for postings? It seems to fit nicely in their goal of indexing the World’s information; and I would expect it would be very well received by the business community.

posted in: Google, concepts, opinion

This post was published on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 6:02 am

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Bruce

June 11, 2008 at 8:55 am

George, great idea. I totally agree that Google should have a handle on this, it seems completely logical.

And to be honest, in comparison to some of the other things they have done: gcal, stocks, etc. it seems like jobs would be super easy to implement.

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Curt

June 11, 2008 at 9:16 am

Awesome idea, George.

What I would like to see is an open id system for job applications. It is such a pain to re-enter the same information for each company’s site.

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Bruce

June 12, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Curt, I agree completely.

It seems with Google’s involvement in things like OpenSocial that they would be able to move that over to a job site interface.

Maybe we should look into sending them some feedback with these ideas.