Comments on: Monsters under the bed http://www.magicpotofjobs.com/2005/08/18/monsters-under-the-bed/ Powered by Cheezhead Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:47:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Dave McClure http://www.magicpotofjobs.com/2005/08/18/monsters-under-the-bed/#comment-13 Dave McClure Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:17:05 +0000 http://www.magicpotofjobs.com/2005/08/18/monsters-under-the-bed/#comment-13 actually, we're not undercutting Monster (or any of the other sites we index). we bring users back to the sites where the content originated, be it a job board, a classified site, or an employer website directly. in other words, we provide distribution & additional traffic to folks like Monster. like Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines we do the following: 1) index a portion of site content for relevance matching 2) display that summary to users based on their keyword search 3) take users back to originating site/content if they click thru Monster is a significant source of job seeker and employer information, and we don't expect them to disappear anytime soon. quite to the contrary, Monster provides perhaps 10-15% of listing data in our system, and we think they provide a substantial amount of value to employers and candidates. That said, Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs, collectively are probably only ~30-35% of the over 4 million job listings on SimplyHired.com. We index job data from over 1,000 sources (and growing), including large job boards, small job boards, classified sites, and company websites directly. Job data is a classic long tail business, and perhaps 30-50% or more of online job listings come from sites you may never heard of before. In summary: we feel our service is a complementary offering to Monster and other large job boards, and at the same time provides job seekers with a wider view of the market than they might otherwise get from just visiting a few job portals. that said, thanks for the post & coverage! - dave mcclure www.simplyhired.com actually, we’re not undercutting Monster (or any of the other sites we index). we bring users back to the sites where the content originated, be it a job board, a classified site, or an employer website directly. in other words, we provide distribution & additional traffic to folks like Monster.

like Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines we do the following:
1) index a portion of site content for relevance matching
2) display that summary to users based on their keyword search
3) take users back to originating site/content if they click thru

Monster is a significant source of job seeker and employer information, and we don’t expect them to disappear anytime soon. quite to the contrary, Monster provides perhaps 10-15% of listing data in our system, and we think they provide a substantial amount of value to employers and candidates.

That said, Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs, collectively are probably only ~30-35% of the over 4 million job listings on SimplyHired.com. We index job data from over 1,000 sources (and growing), including large job boards, small job boards, classified sites, and company websites directly. Job data is a classic long tail business, and perhaps 30-50% or more of online job listings come from sites you may never heard of before.

In summary: we feel our service is a complementary offering to Monster and other large job boards, and at the same time provides job seekers with a wider view of the market than they might otherwise get from just visiting a few job portals.

that said, thanks for the post & coverage!

- dave mcclure
www.simplyhired.com

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