Jobs.com.au Powered By Jobx

Another win by the team at Jobx who are powering the entire jobs.com.au site. Perhaps the Jobs.com.au domain name will have better success this time around…

Old School Meets New School

An alliance between JobX.com.au and social networking site, friendsreunited.com.au was announced today.

JOBX will provide FriendsReunited.com.au a full white label of its technology and functionality, including powering and launching the FriendsReunited.com.au jobs portal.

Good on ‘em. JobX has done the right thing in that, prior to spending squillions on marketing, it’s building some strategic alliances.This’ll help friendsreunited, too. Friendsreuinited is old school, web1.0, whereas JobX is more web2.0, giving its counterpart a bit more wizz-bang.

JOBX and Recruitment Academy Plugging Leaky Bucket

JOBX and Recruitment Academy has announced today the launch of the first exclusive Recruitment Industry job and candidate board including an on-line networking forum. This industry-first will be called recruitMenow, a new division of Recruitment Academy. The site will provide a space in which recruiters looking for consultants can advertise jobs, and consultants can promote themselves to recruiting companies. Kinda like a directory for recruitment consultants.

But don’t go to the space expecting to find anything. This is what’s there:

“recruitMenow will launch mid March 2008 and both JOBX’s CEO Richard Maré and Recruitment Academy’s founder and Managing Director Michael Dimopoulos believe this new partnership will accelerate and dominate this space rapidly.”

Expect a plethora of these new sites. Companies are keen to take advantage of the culture of online networking, and so they should. It is cost-effective and indeed, very efficient means of reaching out.However, this appears to be a little undercooked. I can’t see how it will gain the support of recruitment agencies, who won’t be too keen on their staff advertising themselves on the site. Also, there are a few sticky privacy issues that may arise for the consultants. For example, and excuse my loud voice BUT WHO’S GOING TO ALLOW THEIR PSYCHOMETRIC DATA TO BE MADE PUBLIC WITHIN THE INDUSTRY IN WHICH THEY WORK? Ahem. That feels better.

Further, in its media release, recruitMenow makes the claim that its site will help to address the problem of attrition within the industry. Yep, read the line again if you don’t believe it. It’s what we all wanna hear, no? I know of hookers who are more loyal to their street corners than some recruitment consultants are to the businesses they work for. And stop me now if my logic is a bit off, but how in the heck will a recruitment consultant job board, a site whose very raison d’etre is to advertise new jobs for people and allow people to promote themselves for new jobs, diminish attrition rates?

I’ve got this little mathematical equation running through my head and I’d like to share it with you, ’cause sometimes, words are confusing. Maths explains some stuff better. It goes like this:Promote new jobs to recruitment consultants + recruitment consultants leave current employment to go to new job = INCREASE in attrition.

Mr Moe, he was my math teacher in year 8. I reckon he’d be real proud of me right now.

JobX, Search More Find Less!

I received an email from Jobx.com.au containing a bold statement regarding their job search functionality.

The JobX email here.

Search less, find more

Our search is faster, more efficient and is more likely to deliver what you are looking for than any other career site in Australia. Yes it’s a big claim, but we stand by it wholeheartedly.

I was excited by that statement and road tested it by checking out the search results from Jobx and then comparing the results with those from the major job sites. My results were as follows:

I typed in the keyword, “Account Manager” and chose location anywhere;

- Jobx – No1 result: Recruitment Consultant. Search results here

- MyCareer - No1 result:Business Development Manager, Key Account Manager. Search results here

- Seek – No1 result: Account Manager – Direct Marketing – 100k Search results here

- CareerOne – No1 result: Account Manager / Online Account Manager Search results here

Notice something disappointing?

While all the other jobsites came up with jobs directly related to my keyword search, Jobx’s results gave me a role for recruitment consultant as its premier listing. The Jobx role does not have the word ‘account manager’, my keyword search, in either its title or its short description. What of Jobx’s claim that it is more likely to deliver what I’m looking for than any other site in Australia? It seems that the other sites gave me what I was looking for…

Now, if you’ve got time and you do manage to get to the fortieth page of jobx’s search results , you will see that the final listing is for an account manager, but it’s dated September 18, 2007 – four months old and still listed.

C’mon, Jobx. Jobseekers want tight search results from current jobs.

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