An interesting note is that their partnership with LinkedIn will allow local searchers to find connections at the companies they are interested in. This could provide job searchers with a leg up on the competition as the referral will come from an internal source if the internal connection is willing to pimp the applicant.

Also, check out our comparison of job aggregation services Simply Hired, Indeed and Jobster.

Today SimplyHired is announcing a distribution deal with GoDaddy that will allow any GoDaddy hosting customer to integrate a Job-a-matic job board into their site. "When Simply Hired approached us about offering their free Job-a-matic product to our hosting customers, it was an easy decision," said Vice-President of Technology Michael Chadwick. "Go Daddy provides a one-stop shop for individuals and businesses to easily establish an online presence. Using Go Daddy Hosting Connection, our customers can take their site to the next level by monetizing it and quickly adding relevant job content."

I can only hope that customers will be able to find the job board as they go through the checkout process. GoDaddy tries to upsell nearly 500 items when you check out. Distribution is key and this is a good move for SimplyHired.

Other job board providers include Indeed and JobThread. FYI, the CN Job Board is custom-made and leverages the Drupal CMS we use currently for tight integration.

Here’s what the source of the discrepancy might be: We have heard that Simply Hired may have started buying a very large number of “pop-under” advertisements from WhenU.

Apparently comscore filters this type of traffic while Compete and Alexa might not. I will say that my dealings with both Alexa and Compete have left me with a void. I will be posting about my experiences with Compete regarding CN this week.

There might be another answer. Unfortunately I can't assure that this is the answer, but it could provide some additional reasoning and perhaps an add-on effect to Mike's thought of popunder traffic. Earlier this year, SimplyHired launched a blogger feature called "Job-a-matic" whereby bloggers can add job listings to their site. Perhaps this feature has picked up steam and somehow the way it's coded is adding traffic to the SimplyHired tally? Again, this is just speculation on my part.

I have met the executives from SimplyHired and chatted with the Indeed CEO. Both companies are innovating in a space that desperately needs innovation.

Oh yea, and I thought the page view was dead :)

I could see Google acquiring Simply Hired just like they did with writely and the others. While I agree with VC Ratings that SH provides a search mechanism, they have some "ins" which could prove beneficial for Google in negotiating later deals (i.e. MySpace).

Kristen notes that neither company provided any comment and Mike notes that, "Simply Hired president Dion Lim, who confirmed that there is “lots of interest in us” from a number of parties but would not comment directly on the rumored deal." I thought I was pretty tight with the Simply Hired team so perhaps if any deal news does come out, I may hear about it quickly.  

Indeed is the largest player in the job aggregator market and both companies are doing some great things currently. Check out our previous coverage of Simply Hired and Indeed and my State of the Web: Jobs analysis from February.

This continues my belief of 2007 = year of the acquisition and merger.

Paul will discuss what Indeed is, differentiation from the competition, Jobster's recent free job listing announcement, how Indeed makes money, the team and more. He will also share some tips for the job seeker and some excellent tips for those wanting to start a web app or business.

The discussion is about 20 minutes and you can either listen to it using the player below or download the mp3.

Several well known bloggers including Guy Kawasaki, John Battelle, Joel Cheesman and Jeff Jarvis have already joined the network. FeedBurner and TypePad will offer widgets for using the Job-a-matic option on sites in those networks.

Below you can listen to my discussion with Phil Carpenter, VP Marketing of SimplyHired. He will explain how the program works.

Phil is asking for user feedback. My first bit of feedback is regarding the payout. First, there is no information about the payout on the Learn More page. This should be added as soon as possible. Next, Phil notes that the payout is $500. I think this is a mistake. Smaller web sites will find it hard to sell jobs, and clicks paying 10 cents or so, will take forever to actually make the $500. Phil notes that it takes a while to get a payout from Amazon. Amazon actually pays out at $10 which is great for smaller sites.

That's really all the feedback I have so far. The team at SimplyHired continues to innovate a sector which has sat dormant for such a long time.

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We discussed the following topics:

• New things at SimplyHired
• Tie-in with News Corp. and MySpace – 1 million unique users going to MySpace jobs a month
• Stats on people who find a job from SimplyHired
• What happened if job boards turned off their feeds
• Duplication of jobs
• Patent application
• Inclusion of niche boards
• SimplyHired into Europe and Asia and issues involved with recruiting in other countries
• Resume posting product overview
• PPC ad system
• What's coming up for SimplyHired

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Overall, I really like the SimplyHired model. Their team really is quite dynamic and I think they really do a great job of saving the job hunter time. I remember searching the NY Times classifieds on Sundays for hours back in the early 90s. Then we moved onto the 'net with check multiple job sites. Now we have a tool which aggregates multiple job boards into one easy to use search. You can now use all that extra time to learn something new or enhance your current skills.

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Allen: Can you provide a brief bio about yourself?
Julie: My name is Julie Craft and prior to joining Simply Hired, I spent the last 15 years in various sales and marketing positions with companies like AT&T, Philip Morris and Federated. At AT&T, I ran very large teams and one of those teams setup the first ecommerce for small businesses. Kind of fun because it was like a startup environment inside of a big company. I attended executive business school at Columbia University and a Masters in Organizational Development from Illinois Benedictine University

Allen: What is Simply Hired and what do you do there?
Julie: Simply Hired which can be found at simplyhired.com is one of the largest search engines for jobs. Our mission in life is to try to help the job seekers solve every pain point in finding their dream job. My role at Simply Hired is that I run the sales and advertising department and am responsible for advertising sales, syndication channels and revenue generating partnerships.

Allen: Do you know how many people actually got hired thru using Simply Hired?
Julie: That is an interesting question but that would actually be tracked through our partners. People come to our site to search over 5 million jobs, then they tailor their job search including corporate culture type. And then we
connect them to companies that are looking for talent. So it would be the company that tracks that data.

Allen: How many sites do you aggregate together?
Julie: We have jobs from hundreds of thousands of companies coming from thousands of sites and that does include employer web sites and Monster and CareerBuilder and niche job sites.

Allen: How much time/effort do you estimate saving a job seeker over looking at all of the individual boards?
Julie: We have not done a formal research study, but everybody has looked for a job and knows how time consuming and painful it is.

Allen: Who do you consider the competitors to Simply Hired?
Julie: Well of course everyone likes to say there is no competition. But I would say the most similar company to Simply Hired would be indeed.com. They are similar because they are a job search engine, they are different in their focus. They are all about the job search piece which is great and adding value. But we believe that is only one piece of the entire process. When someone is looking for a job it is more than just the search. What we like to do is add applications on top of the job search helping the job seeker find the dream job, whether it is a lifestyle they are looking for, whether its getting their resume out to multiple job boards instantly, so we like to layer applications on top of the job search process making it that much more effective for the job seeker in finding their dream job.

Allen: How does Simply Hired make money?
Julie: Well most of us are here for fun but we do need to make money as well. We offer advertising on our site that can come in a variety of ways and we also offer featured/sponsored jobs. Companies can pay per click and have their jobs go to the top of the search results. What we are priding ourselves on is that we are still upholding the integrity of our search algorithm. So when their job goes to the top it is only going to the top within a very relevant search for the job seeker. That is fairly new, we launched it about three weeks ago and already have about 1 million sponsored jobs listed and has been quite effective for us.

The second way is resumes, we have a product called Resume Post. When job seekers find a job they are interested in, they can actually build a resume and send it out instantly to six of the major job boards. It is free for job seekers, but the boards that are receiving the job leads pay for them.

And then we also have customized solutions with some biz-dev partnerships where we do some custom work and those are all fee-based.

Allen: What does the user base look like for Simply Hired?
Julie: It is really mainstream. We have done a couple demographic studies and the make up is across the board in terms of gender, years of experience as well as geographies and industries. So we feel we are very representative of America. We are a bit heavy on tech and on the healthcare industries.

Allen: What is the makeup of the Simply Hired team and what is life like working at Simply Hired?
Julie: I am smiling while I speak because it is such a joy to work at Simply Hired. We have 50 employees, and probably speak 50 languages. It is a very diverse, eclectic group of very talented individuals. We really are like a Simply Hired family. We all have a passion for helping the job seeker process and helping to find their dream jobs. The team has really bonded.

The executives and founders have done a great job of creating a culture that promotes unity. We have Simply Hired olympics, off-site events on a regular basis, bring in lunch catered every single Friday. So it is just non-stop fun and a really dynamic place to work.

Allen: Can you speak about the “Working Mother Approved” section of Simply Hired?
Julie: That was about a year ago that I came across the Working Mother list and they publish the Top 100 companies for working mothers. And so we felt very good about the process they have in place for selecting these companies. We wanted to help promote that because it was a great endorsement about the whole lifestyle that is emerging. We talked to them about creating a specialty filter on our site where people can search for jobs and they can click on Working Mother friendly companies and those jobs will show up. It was rapidly successful and our users liked it a lot. We have now setup other filters, such as for dog-friendly companies. We have a gay and lesbian feature and more coming really soon based on lifestyles.

Allen: Where do you see Simply Hired going in the next 1-2 years?
Julie: We are going to continue the path we are on and that is about helping to solve every pain point in the job seeking experience. And that is a mission that will take a little while to feel like we have accomplished it but we are taking steps every few months to solve another pain point and that’s what our passion is and will continue down that path until we feel we have conquered it.

Allen: Where do you see staffing services going in the next 1-2 years?
Julie: They are definitely going to need partners, whether that is Monster or Simply Hired, they will need partners to find that key talent and we will be there for them.

Well we have reached the end of our interview with Julie. Thanks to Julie for participating and to you for reading and listening.

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