job boards

This afternoon I spoke with Indeed CEO Paul Forster to get updates on the job aggregation service. I initially conducted an audio interview with Paul last year. We also took a look at Indeed, SimplyHired and Jobster using Google Trends last week. Indeed launched in 2004.

Paul shared that they are currently serving 7 million unique visitors a month and over 130 million pageviews per month. The company is now profitable and they have 50 employees located at their headquarters in Stamford.

As for their business model, revenue comes mostly from PPC (pay per click) advertising and they also power a large number of job boards including the one on about.com.

One thing I've noticed is that SimplyHired seems to have disappeared. A year ago I received weekly emails from SimplyHired with updates and now, nothing. I had a number of good conversations with their execs. The SimplyHired blog hasn't been updated in nearly four months as well. Maybe they are hands-down building the next release.

Paul says that Indeed has the most comprehensive job search and that they are the leaders in innovation.

The most recent feature they have added is on the backend for companies who use Indeed. It's called Job Analytics and gives companies very detailed statistics on where their jobs are featured, which sites are working, click rates, and the most popular job titles. This tool might actually be good for the Internet marketer at those companies to look at as well. This data could lead to good marketing relationships. If you know a site or blog is working well for job leads, maybe it's something to consider for a larger marketing program.

The last topic we touched on was the current economy. I was thinking that in an economic downturn Indeed would do very well. But of course there are less jobs so it's probably a wash. Paul noted that healthcare and government jobs are still doing very well overall. Financial, retail and housing jobs are the weakest currently.

Paul ended the discussion by stating that Indeed's focus is to provide the best job search for the job seeker and the companies who post their jobs on the site.

Each day this week we will take a look at a group of Internet sites using the new Google Trends for Websites. Up first is a comparison of three of the top job board aggregators: SimplyHired, Indeed and Jobster. Indeed is a NYC-based company, SimplyHired is based in Silicon Valley and Jobster is up there in Seattle.

From the chart below, we see the Indeed is running about 200,000 unique visitors a day, SimplyHired at around 50,000 per day and Jobster comes in last with 20,000 daily unique visitors. To be honest, I would have guessed that SimplyHired was larger than Indeed based on marketing. Indeed investor Fred Wilson noted that the traffic to Indeed is, "a monster". I am going to try to head out to their office in Connecticut next week for an interview.

Each of the companies basically operates under the same model. They aggregate job listings plus add their own listings and offer paid featured listings. In this current economic downturn with people losing their jobs left and right, these services are in a good place to benefit from the unfortunate circumstances.

If you notice a spike in traffic on SimplyHired last summer, it could be due to a pop-under campaign they ran during this time.

StandoutJobs is announcing a partnership with Scribd tonight. The partnership takes Scribd's iPaper application and brings the functionality to StandoutJobs' Reception candidate tracking system. The idea is pretty simple - rather than forcing the Reception user to download a resume and then view it in the application that created the resume, now they can view it directly inside of the candidate's folder. The employer can also view supporting documents using iPaper as well.

While founder Benjamin Yoskovitz doesn't make any references to the candidate side, I assume any documents that the employer wants to share with the candidate could also utilize the iPaper plugin.

What I like about this partnership is that it will allow candidates to upload the formats that work best for them -- they aren't forced into Microsoft Word or a PDF.

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