5 ms·

Does Google have a deal with these companies? Will this be the start of the end of all those job sites? is Google just testing the waters? So many questions.

sheeshkebab 9y ago
It's like Indeed (in the early days, when they didn't have post jobs/resume search). I guess it's possible they could build google apps type thing for recruiters eventually and step on everyone, although it's doubtful it will do them much good to get into that field.
Consultant32452 9y ago
"Hi, I noticed you have a job opening. Would you like me to fill that position with a small python script?" ~Google AI
- downrightmike 9y ago
  "Hey Google, what's happening? Aahh, now, are you going to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?" http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001873/quotes http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001873/quotes
amelius 9y ago
It's kind of ridiculous that these big companies can overtake whole markets simply by engaging into them.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  Also, consider the size and employment of a lot of these other companies. And then, look at how many people Google is actually likely to employ on this product, given their obsession with automation and an utter lack of human support. Suffice to say, this, like many other new Google products, will put hundreds or thousands of people out on the street. People want to know where the jobs went. People are looking for jobs? The only jobs safe from Google takeovers are Google jobs. And I'm not so sure how committed Google would be to keeping their own employees if they could automate them away too.
kylestlb 9y ago
According to their Jobs API page, CareerBuilder is an alpha customer (for the API).
rdiddly 9y ago
I saw the words "deep collaboration" so that sounds like, yes they have a deal with these companies.
AJ007 9y ago
They announced a "Jobs API" for Google Cloud but it was closed, and as far as I can tell was the non-threatening trojan horse to get the big job sites integrated. ( https://cloud.google.com/jobs-api/ https://cloud.google.com/jobs-api/ ) As you can see, Google is already including job postings directly from companies - which is in contrast to what they claimed they were going to do with the Cloud Jobs API. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr_8oNKtB98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr_8oNKtB98 ) This move, like so many other things Google does now, just pushes the organic results further down and off page 1. In the short to mid term, the other job sites - Indeed, Monster, Ziprecruiter, could act as a funnel for populating the longer tail of job postings. In aggregate, it is very, very hard to get postings from all of these small businesses that lack a robust ATS. That is why companies like Ziprecruiter have to run their ads (to acquire employers) all over the place. In the long term, it will be easy for Google to cut out the other job sites. If you follow where job sites get their traffic, with the exception of Linkedin, it is basically all ultimately from Google. I'm somewhat surprised it took Google this long. Perhaps in part it was reactionary to Facebook. ( https://www.facebook.com/business/news/take-the-work-out-of-hiring https://www.facebook.com/business/news/take-the-work-out-of-... ) If Google takes that path, then it has to start charging companies for job postings. Already today companies like Uber have to hand over millions of dollars to Google to acquire their workforce. I imagine this would only strengthen Google's hand.

sheeshkebab 9y ago

It's like Indeed (in the early days, when they didn't have post jobs/resume search). I guess it's possible they could build google apps type thing for recruiters eventually and step on everyone, although it's doubtful it will do them much good to get into that field.

Consultant32452 9y ago

"Hi, I noticed you have a job opening. Would you like me to fill that position with a small python script?" ~Google AI

downrightmike 9y ago
"Hey Google, what's happening? Aahh, now, are you going to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?" http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001873/quotes http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0001873/quotes

amelius 9y ago

It's kind of ridiculous that these big companies can overtake whole markets simply by engaging into them.

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
Also, consider the size and employment of a lot of these other companies. And then, look at how many people Google is actually likely to employ on this product, given their obsession with automation and an utter lack of human support. Suffice to say, this, like many other new Google products, will put hundreds or thousands of people out on the street. People want to know where the jobs went. People are looking for jobs? The only jobs safe from Google takeovers are Google jobs. And I'm not so sure how committed Google would be to keeping their own employees if they could automate them away too.

kylestlb 9y ago

According to their Jobs API page, CareerBuilder is an alpha customer (for the API).

rdiddly 9y ago

I saw the words "deep collaboration" so that sounds like, yes they have a deal with these companies.

AJ007 9y ago

They announced a "Jobs API" for Google Cloud but it was closed, and as far as I can tell was the non-threatening trojan horse to get the big job sites integrated. ( https://cloud.google.com/jobs-api/ https://cloud.google.com/jobs-api/ ) As you can see, Google is already including job postings directly from companies - which is in contrast to what they claimed they were going to do with the Cloud Jobs API. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr_8oNKtB98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr_8oNKtB98 ) This move, like so many other things Google does now, just pushes the organic results further down and off page 1. In the short to mid term, the other job sites - Indeed, Monster, Ziprecruiter, could act as a funnel for populating the longer tail of job postings. In aggregate, it is very, very hard to get postings from all of these small businesses that lack a robust ATS. That is why companies like Ziprecruiter have to run their ads (to acquire employers) all over the place. In the long term, it will be easy for Google to cut out the other job sites. If you follow where job sites get their traffic, with the exception of Linkedin, it is basically all ultimately from Google. I'm somewhat surprised it took Google this long. Perhaps in part it was reactionary to Facebook. ( https://www.facebook.com/business/news/take-the-work-out-of-hiring https://www.facebook.com/business/news/take-the-work-out-of-... ) If Google takes that path, then it has to start charging companies for job postings. Already today companies like Uber have to hand over millions of dollars to Google to acquire their workforce. I imagine this would only strengthen Google's hand.