Awhile ago I posted my site, http://www.happyjobsearch.com here for feedback. I hope no one minds my mentioning it here again, but it seems relevant.
I wrote the site over a weekend after I got laid off for the second time in 3 months. The first time I was laid off, I took a very haphazard approach to looking for jobs and it caused me a lot of stress. I made Happy Job Search to help get organized. It's like a GTD app just for job hunting. It's optimized for quickly adding jobs to your "inbox", then going through and investigating each job, adding notes, and filing the job under a next action (send email, make call, etc). Finally, it's made to be useful for quickly reviewing a job opportunity before you interview.
It takes a little time to actually go through and enter job information, but it really helped me. It's also free. Hopefully others will find it useful as well and won't go through what I did the first time I was laid off :)
(ps, LukeG I'd like to email you but your address isn't listed. Mine is daniel@flyingmachinestudios.com. Thanks!)
I was doing some work this past summer trying to extract good feature sets from job ads so users could train a neural network to help filter through ads.
I see there are a lot of sites that to do something for employers but its good to see someone else thinking of job seekers. Not much out there for us and I think an opportunity exists for someone that can optimize and organize the process with us in mind.
I have(/had) a project in this area as well, and I kept stumbling over the monetization problem-- job seekers are a population that has a strong disincentive to parting with their money.
NotchUp has an interesting play on this problem, though hard to say if they're getting any traction.
Obviously the employers and recruiters are the ones holding the money, so most solutions tend to cater to their dealflow needs.
Any other stakeholders with money that are part of this ecosystem? Or other monetization ideas?
Are there any affliate players in the job space? E.g. capitalizing on bounties/etc for successful hires/interviews?
There are several Job Alchemy above being one of them.
There's one in the UK (who's name I can't remember right now) which specializes in "referal" hiring, taking advantage of the fact many large employers give employee's significant bonuses for referred hires to essentially create a secondary market for recruitment based upon referal bonus payments.
I wrote the site over a weekend after I got laid off for the second time in 3 months. The first time I was laid off, I took a very haphazard approach to looking for jobs and it caused me a lot of stress. I made Happy Job Search to help get organized. It's like a GTD app just for job hunting. It's optimized for quickly adding jobs to your "inbox", then going through and investigating each job, adding notes, and filing the job under a next action (send email, make call, etc). Finally, it's made to be useful for quickly reviewing a job opportunity before you interview.
It takes a little time to actually go through and enter job information, but it really helped me. It's also free. Hopefully others will find it useful as well and won't go through what I did the first time I was laid off :)
(ps, LukeG I'd like to email you but your address isn't listed. Mine is daniel@flyingmachinestudios.com. Thanks!)