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By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com Guide to Human Resources

Find Employees Using Simply Hired

Wednesday June 24, 2009

Have you ever wondered what differentiates all the job search sites and job search engines from each other? How can an employer figure out which options are the best for your company? Help is here. Today, I’m highlighting the second profile in a new series on the site for my members and readers.

With this proliferation of job sites online, it’s difficult to differentiate their services and cost for employers. Using the online world to find employees is a given these days and you want to select job sites that will provide you with the best possible pool of candidates.

As I looked into job sites, and emailed with executives and marketing employees at various job sites, it struck me that I would do my audience a favor if I wrote profiles about the sites.

Today’s lead article is my second profile in the series. It features a powerful job search engine called Simply Hired which offers employers 21 million candidates a month and a pay-per-click program. I will write and publish profiles in the order in which job search sites return my questionnaire.

I’d appreciate feedback from readers about whether you find these new profiles useful. If you do, I’ll write more of them.

See my initial profile of Indeed.com.

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Comments

June 24, 2009 at 4:14 pm
(1) Matthew says:

Whether its pay to post or pay per click, I find that no job board will charge for finding the person you are actually looking for and this is frustrating. Its like we want to hire a nurse in DC, but the market sells job postings and clicks and this and that…not nurses in DC. You know? Frustrating. It’s like having to pay before you go into a store and once you get in, they don’t have it…and your money is gone. So the risk is inherently on the employer, never on the job board. I guess they are not stupid

June 26, 2009 at 10:54 am
(2) Michael says:

Interesting comment, hotjobs came out with pay for candidate pricing today. Another job network called realmatch has been taking sare quickly with a pure pay for preformace model. So there are alternative to paying to post and paying for clicks. I expect we will see more although for sites like Monster, Careerbuilder etc…they will have a hard time moving to preformace based pricing as this would mean giving up existing revenue streams.

June 27, 2009 at 7:59 pm
(3) Stephanie says:

Even in this economy, I am very hestitant about posting my resume. I will search but will locate the company’s HR. What has happened to just plain old fashion newspaper postings–perhaps on addition to online posting?

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