Finally. Some courageous bloggers are shining a light on the dark side of the job search engine business.
There is:
- RealityBitesBack with PCMag.com Barks Up Wrong Tree Singing Praises of Hound.com and
- Nick Corcodilos with Droolers, Charles Manson and A. Harrison Barnes
- Toby Dayton with Stay Away From Sites That Charge A Fee For Recycled Job Listings
I’ve been writing about the free job posting movement as it relates to the job search industry for a long time and waiting for someone else to delve into the paid side of the business.
We used to charge jobseekers at LatPro many many years ago so I know a little bit about the contradictions and the temptations involved. It’s very hard to find the right line to walk and that’s one of the reasons we changed our model.
In the long run, free will win the day. But we are stuck in the short run, and this recession is the one paid job search has been waiting for. The mother of all recessions – a true gold mine!
Such is life.
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the whole recruiting (headhunting) process leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Studies say that it costs upto $30K to hire someone. There is something wrong with that picture in my opinion. Now you have additional costs with psychological profiling to find that "perfect" candidate. It’s crazy. The message is pretty clear, create your own job, there has never been a better time in the history. Also there has never been more things that need fixing (jobs). As someone already said "hiring is obsolete".
**es** I have been thinking a lot about all the incentives not to hire recently. There is a long long list growing day by day. It is going to become a contractor’s world!
There are sites built with the aim of money just to rub people with subscriptions (looking for work so if you do not pay) and there are serious job portals where you can try and provide jobs for free. We would like to launch a proposal: The newspapers offering work must be free and not have a price, because a person seeking work “disocupato” can not spend money.