“Why has .jobs chosen DirectEmployers Association to lead this project?,” is a good question. One potential answer that EmployMedia may wish to minimize is that .jobs was facing viability concerns and saw a white knight…after all, DirectEmployers can just get domain names like the rest of us if they wish….but in a white knight role, they can get claws on the whole thing….

Which gets to the point I have on the whole subject of DirectEmployers; nothwithstanding that helping anyone get a job right now is a realy important thing to do, how does the mutant spawn of America’s Job Bank, a Frankenstein entity long-drained of any (at best modest) value, morph into a giant collusive collective controlling its own private labor and advertising markets ?

I don’t like any of it. I don’t like the non-profit status, I dont like the intensity of mutual competitive data on hiring and candidate activity, and I dont like the whole unsupervised Wild West feel of the thing.

And I dont like Mr. Craig Schwartz’s flip view of his organization’s responsibilty either. Being a decent citizen, corporate or otherwise, means we all have to do some policing from time to time.

I do like John’s skilled reporting on this and I hope he keeps at it…

By opening up the domains like this its apparent that the original idea is being re-purposed. So why not let other entities like job boards take part?