The Rise of Vertical Job Search Engines

Vertical Job Search Engines are Job Search Engines with a Difference. Vertical Job Boards is a new way to Index Jobs freely from employers sites, Manpower Consultant Websites, Traditional Career sites etc all at the same time. Like any other search engine, a vertical search engine also is a door to information, but vertical search engines tend to streamline information easier and most importantly at one stop.

The success of Indeed, Simplyhired, Jobster evokes introduction by many players with respect to Asian / Indian context as well. Recruit.net, adopted job aggregators / job metasearch site first in Asia and later followed up by creating the Indian Version as well India.Recruit.net. Bixee founded by ex-Yahoo employees which is now a part of MIH.

Yesterday, I came across another IT Vertical search engine, Gladoo which is currently in Beta Testing Phase. Gladoo has struck the right notes by targeting the IT Industry and this site offers one stop search access to jobs by aggregating job listings from all major job portals, classified sites, recruitment agenc ies, and corporate websites. The look and feel is very Web 2.0ish and has been created by Avake, a Technology company who have their roots from the Silicon Valley. Gladoo can also collect Job Listings from your Career Site, all you have to do is fill this form, their spiders will do the rest.

Gladoo

I am also glad to see that India’s leading Portal, Rediff has also started its Jobs Search Engine, which I will be covering in the future posts.

If you are asger to know the best Job Search Aggregators, you will find them on The Job SearchVertical’s list and Eric Shannon if you are reading this post, you now have few more to add in your list.

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JobReferrals at its best!

Just stumbled across another useful site, JobReferrals.in which is dedicated to Employee Referrals. So how does this work

Job Holders

  • Post internal vacancies in your teams , organization
  • Chose the best candidates from the job seeking members database
  • Collect resumes from employee profiles and refer them to your organization
  • Help your organization recruit best people and get rewarded with referral bonus!

Job Seekers

  • Browse job vacancies in organizations of your choice
  • Browse through the profiles of site members of the organization of your choice
  • Send them your resumes and get referred internally
  • Read reviews of the organizations , and make an informed decision regarding a career move
  • Read domain reviews, and find out what people have to say about a particular career stream they have been in.

Organizations

  • Organizations can advertise for open positions & they will be indicated as a featured item in the vacancies section. As a premium member posting, it will carry more credibility and visibility than the user submitted vacancies.

What I don’t like:

  1. Usability
  2. Google Advertisements which interupt healthy browsing
  3. PR / Marketing – I hope my post helps

JobReferrals might not directly monetize you directly like how frontFoot & NDTVJobs, but you surely can earn you referral Bonus from your employer… :)

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Who is really behind SourceCon?

SourceCon is by far the greatest development in the world of Recruiting & Sourcing. SourceCon comprises of Speaker Bio’s of leaders / the best in the recruiting / sourcing industry. SouceCon1.com has every info that you might need to participate…


The Recruiters Lounge – Who is behind SourceCon? from Jim Stroud and Vimeo.

Update:- I just read at Ritesh’s Blog, that Shally Steckeral is the mastermind behind SourceCon 2007. Sorry Jim, Sorry you were’nt able to find this out for us this time :)

Thanks a ton Ritesh!

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