Ideas

Check out indeed.com, or canada.indeed.com

It pulls job info from all sorts of sites, including monster, workopolis and careerbuilder. You will also see jobs linking straight to the employer's career page though. You can also sponsor jobs, placing that posting at the top of the search results.

Regardless, if you visit the 'publishers' section they have a service that lets you create your own job site. They've done the programming, just market your own site to a niche and earn a commission. Less payoff, but less risk and lower startup cost.

bparsons...

GL wrote in the pitch..

"Unlike indeed.com our product Looks at company's own website rather then other job boards."

as the pitch says, we are different then Indeed.com... They scan the job sites, we scan the career sections of company's websites. So Career Scan has to do a lot more scanning vs indeed.com but this allows company's to spend less money on ad's and do less work.

Sorry... I reread your comment...

so are you proposing that I go to indeed.com and talk to them about expanding their service?

I do think this market is flooded. but I think there is still some breathing room for a good new idea.

http://www.simplyhired.com

I think it's a good idea, but I think you should pitch it as allowing the companies to easily reuse their existing content, not necessarily as a money saver. I don't think the money these companies spend to post jobs is a real point of pain for them. I read recently that Craigslist initially started charging for job listings and real estate ads in certain markets at the request of the people posting the ads. That is, the companies posting the ads *wanted* to pay a fee, because the fee cut down on spam and frivolous posts, so their serious offers got more play.

Yea, well Indeed pulls from the major job sites as well as individual company career pages. In the advanced search section you can request the site only to search the company's specific career pages, you can even remove staffing company results. They offer both angles, searching all job boards, and searching specific businesses "career" pages. I suggest a closer look at Indeed only because they've already done the work in developing the technology, and they even offer the publisher's section for people who want to develop their own job site using their technology. I'm not sure, but if you can choose to only receive results from career pages instead of major job sites, I assume you can apply that within their 'Instant Job Site' service and have a website much like described in this idea posting.

Agreed that the market is flooded not to mention that job sites are becoming less effective. I work in the staffing industry so I say this from experience.

Corporate recruiters are actually relying more on networking tools and social media to find people.

I would change the name. "Career" is broader than "jobs."

but GL companies especially in http://www.Jobstreet.com do post seperately their own corporated ads after you click the job item in the list....and you can email or directly send to their address and own posted email.

i agree with Maureen.."career" seems inappropriate vs. "job" ohhh you will hate the semantics! =)

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There's another job search engine that displayes results from other job sites, companies and newspapers. The search results are very relevant. The website is http://www.jobcab.com

arg

i hate spam

I work for an online job board myself, and we've set up partnerships with a lot of sites that aggregate job feeds from other job boards (including Indeed, SimplyHired, etc.). Contrary to what many people in this thread seems to think, job boards actually pay to get their job listings up on Indeed etc.

it's a viable business model, although one with high barriers to entry I imagine as the marketplace is pretty crowded already. And scraping jobs is NOT a fun job, let me tell you that much.. Hahah..