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JobSyndicate Alpha Launch

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I think the large bounties are going to be very tempting to affiliates. Getting a check for $1,000 out of the blue will make anybody's day.

Great model. In fact, surprised someone hasn't tried this yet.

This may work especially well for tech specific blogs. (Assuming tech related positions.)

We're definitely focused on tech, design/UX, and PM/startup marketing-focused blogs for now.

Neat...as a side note, what are some prominent design/UX and PM type blogs? I have searched around and not found too many, especially those directed towards PMs. (For design/UX I am aware of Usability Post, Signal vs. Noise, and Functioning Form).

As you pointed out, Usability Post is one of my favorites, and SvN is clearly a leader.

Boxes and Arrows (http://www.boxesandarrows.com/) is also pretty rad.

I keep an eye on Subtraction (http://subtraction.com/), Khoi Vihn's mostly personal blog, too. He's the interaction designer for NYTimes, second to none...other than our own Loc Ngo, of course.

Well, I just "applied" my blog but I'll repeat the part of that email that matters the most: I'm a big believer in the concept.

Job boards are, by far, the best way to monetize professional traffic to a particular niche blog. (Well, the second best way. The best way is to push the product you also happening to be selling.) And the cursory research I did in this area a while back showed a glaring hole in distributed job board networks.

I think you guys have found a real sweet spot. I wish you guys the best.

Congrats on the alpha launch!

thanks!

"... JobSyndicate is our way of getting jobs in front great candidates where they already live online. We can get targeted distribution for jobs by combining our ad widget technology with contingency recruiting “bounties. ..."

Read this line out loud. Needs a bit of editing.

suggestions? could be simpler, will play around with it.

Since it's Alpha you can get away with alpha explanations but as more and more ppl use it explanations might have to be "pitched around the office" and get them to "say" what JS is doing then write them down. I'm crappy at writing at the best of times but my stab would be:

FROM

  JobSyndicate is our way of getting jobs 
  in front great candidates where they already 
  live online. 

  We can get targeted distribution for jobs 
  by combining our ad widget technology 
  with contingency recruiting “bounties.

  JobSyndicate is an online service that 
  matches the best candidate to their 
  geographic location.
  
  JobSyndicate acheives targeted distribution 
  for jobs using a combination of our "Ad widget" 
  technology and "recruiting bounties".

Replace the quotes with hyperlinks (and bold typeface) for "Ad widget" and "recruiting bounties".

[geotargeting isn't live yet, but it's coming, btw]

The idea of "putting jobs in front of candidates where they live online" is a fairly explicit pitch to HR managers & internal recruiters. HR folks are used to distinguishing between "active" and "passive" candidates. Active job seekers will, for example, apply to jobs at sites like Startuply and Craigslist (um in that order). Passive candidates - who are often the best - don't go job hunting, usually because they don't need to. JobSyndicate is for getting jobs to them without really changing their behavior; it's a premium service.

For pitching around the office, I'd say that JS is kind of like an inverted job board. Employers post a job once, it syndicates everywhere, and they pay only for results.

A pretty sweet startup CEO I spoke with also came up with the (very) unofficial elevator pitch analogy: it's like Adult Friend Finder for jobs.

He may have been referring to the lack of the word 'of' after the word 'front.'

how are you keeping people honest? How does your system know that someone was hired and its time to charge?

Great question.

People will always try to abuse a system, especially when there's a monetary incentive to do so. We manage fraud risk with a portfolio of approaches that includes building real relationships, designing good automated signals/indicators, monitoring the network closely, and having strong TOS + great lawyers.

Shout out to Loc and Ben too. How are you three doing?

ben and loc are holding down the east bay; I'm all lonely over in SF. ;)

Congrats guys!This is looking great

I was just thinking about you guys recently wondering what the status of your startup was.

alive and kicking

So how much nudging do we have to do to get an alpha account? nudge nudge

Looks great! Is there going to be a public database of all job postings?

I think a central repository of the jobs would compete too directly with our affiliates. We want to get them paid.

We also don't want to rebuild the [startuply] wheel with another destination site - JobSyndicate is about distribution.

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