Comments on: A Sourcing Network on Steroids

By: Mark Radoff

Mark Radoff — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:58:00 +0000

Looks interesting. Trying to set up an account now. And yes, zealously promoted. I have a sneaking suspicion that I know exactly how the underlying technology functions, suffice to say that while the engine itself is probably very powerful and functional, the matching algorithms will only work as well as the data. So if you pull in lots of unstructured data from job boards, well…I’ll leave it at that. Curious to check it out — I’ll dig deeper and blog a formal review later (speaking of promotion…). Could be an increment better than many others.

By: Doreen Kelly

Doreen Kelly — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:51:00 +0000

Thanks Mr. Clayton–my opoint is that authors kind of lose their ’street cred’ when their isn’t a’ no financial benefit recieved’ disclaimer, which, unless Kevin Wheeler doesn’t read comments to his article, must be the case here.

It’s a shame, I think it seriously devalues content here.

Doreen

By: Peter Clayton

Peter Clayton — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:40:00 +0000

You might be interested in a 15 minute interview I just posted on totalpicture.com with Jim Hammock. BTW, I have no financial interest in the company, but I do think they’re taking online job boards in the right direction.

Regards,

By: Doreen Kelly

Doreen Kelly — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:17:00 +0000

Hi Kevin,
I’m coming back into the business after 5 years as a consultant–had 3 kids, and my clients are somewhat ‘drawing me back’!! I’ve read ERE articles weekly during my absence, to keep abreast of what’s going on. I’ve always found your articles to be insightful, as are most from other authors on ERE.

This one seemed a bit ‘zealous’ on your part and lacked the disclaimer I normally see on articles when a writer is commenting on a new site–that they don’t represent a companya s a consultant or investor. Do you, or anyone at your firm represent or are paid by this company in anyway?

Seems that you an the Founders may have history, according to your article.

I checked out Itzbig–the upfront payment is akin to everyone else out there in the job board space. I don’t see too much distinction from the old Market10 model either.
Thanks,

Doreen

By: Barry Lawrence

Barry Lawrence — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:37:00 +0000

Thanks John for pointing out that Jobfox has been successfully in this business for awhile. We have been getting tremendous word-of-mouth from employers and job seekers for our precision job-fit technology.

We are already launched in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, San Francisco and Boston. More announcements to come.

For those who don’t know, Jobfox began beta testing in D.C. area as Market 10. Now Jobfox, the company is led by Rob McGovern, the founder and former CEO of CareerBuilder. Many of the originial CBers are now back with Rob at Jobfox.

By: John Sloan

John Sloan — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:12:00 +0000

Having not used Itzbig my only comments are it sounds like Market10/JobFox redux.

Not quite sure how it is ‘the first tool I have seen that has been built on these principles and offers both the job seeker and the recruiter an entirely new perspective on sourcing.’….as Mr Wheeler states.

I guess time will tell. Maybe their matching algorithm is the best thing since sliced bread! I wish Itzbig all the best with it’s new product launch.