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Competing with CareerBuilder and Monster is a waste of time. Both of these sites will eventually become irrelevant -- searching for a job by typing in a few ke
by aseidman 17y ago
Competing with CareerBuilder and Monster is a waste of time. Both of these sites will eventually become irrelevant -- searching for a job by typing in a few keywords is unnatural. People hear about jobs thru friends, professional acquaintances, work product (GitHub, StackOverflow, etc), and local businesses (signs) and as LinkedIn becomes more prevalent they will grab more then their fair share of this market without trying very hard.
The far bigger opportunity for LinkedIn is to aggregate business leads. Are you looking to outfit your company with new laptops this year, looking for a block of hotel rooms for a conference, looking for an event management company, looking to upgrade accounting systems. Each of these leads is worth hundreds of dollars and helping businesses find good vendors is not easy (consultants make billions of dollars/yr making vendor recommendations).
- byrneseyeview 17y agoThe existence of the recruiting industry belies that claim. The job market is incredibly inefficient: I would bet that no professional in a big city could name more than 10% of the people who would be willing to employ him at that moment. Most of the jobs I see and hear about are of no interest to me; I can search careerbuilder (or LinkedIn) and instantly find some jobs that are relevant.
- aseidman 17y agoThe recruiting industry will not go away, but sites like CareerBuilder and Monster as major players within the recruiting industry will. The value of matching job seekers to jobs is far more efficient within LinkedIn.