Recruit Kick-Butt People

I added a “Recent Jobs” section to the sidebar on the right side of this blog—I know: monetization is so “Web 1.0.” :-) If you want to advertise a position in this jobs board, it’s only $49 for thirty days (this is an introductory special).

I have a highly-qualified readership of people with entrepreneurial, evangelistic, and technical backgrounds that should appeal to companies trying to kick butt...at least that’s my assumption. For you analytical types, I get approximately 8-10,000 page views per day, and there are 20-23,000 RSS subscribers. These are my audience’s demographics as of September, 2006.

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Comments

[Chris Knott]

I'm curious about the business model for this, and how it scales. Well, given I'm a development director at Monster, I should have an interest ;)

One of the core principles that VCs (in my experience) pound on is "focus" for a startup. Guy's board as well as some of the other ones mentioned in the comments - GigaOM, VentureBoard, 37 Signals, MetaFilter, and Joel Spolsky's seem to have this is common - they are all companies/people that do other things and the job board is a side line.

Is the goal to fund the bandwidth of the blog? If so I can easily see how a small inventory of jobs would do that; I finder it harder to see how it scales if it isn't a major focus.

The infrastructures that people like Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice etc. have built are there for a reason. Even the "Web 2.0" startups in the space like Jobster and SimplyHired have sucked up a lot of financing to build an infrastructure to scale the business model of a "job board". It's one of those business that look simple from the outside but have a lot of complexity in the scaling and execution.

So Guy: out of curiosity is this a real business you're building or a sideline to fund the (fascinating) web site?

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Chris,

The honest answer is that I don't know. It's something I thought I'd try to see if I could further monetize my blog. If it makes me rich, thank you God. If it doesn't, it wasn't much trouble.

Thanks,

Guy

[MaxWilly]

Hmm. Its very interesting way to find a workplace :)

[Jon]

Way to go Guy... make money while providing a service that your clients are actually interested in. Keep up the VC'ing on your blog ;-)

Jon

[zaraza]

if you want to hire cheap freelancers try romanianfreelancers.com

[Scott Taylor]

Hi Guy,

Just with regards my earlier post, the main reason that was stopping me from posting an international listing was when I tried to enter my phone number. It kept giving me the error of:

"please enter a valid US area code."

So if this could get fixed it would be excellent :) and ill post up a few jobs. Thanks.

Regards,
Scott

[Daniel Foster]

Hello, Guy.

I've posted a job but I notice that every time I hit blog.guykawasaki.com the list of recent jobs in the sidebar initially fails to load. It only shows up when I refresh.

Not sure if you're getting others with the same problem, but I wanted to let you know.

Daniel Foster, Logos Bible Software

[Kingcob Bob IV]

Thanks, Guy. I'm gonna forward this to my idiot step-son, who wants to quit college to blog full-time.

[Stephen Fowler]

Nice one Guy, I think this may happen more and more it is one way of getting to those passive candidates.

First time I saw something similar was with Techcrunch and I recently used google for advertising. Anyway best of luck, oh while I am here I noticed you mentioned Jajah again, so in case I didnt mention it I did sign up and so did my Boss proved to be a good move.
Regards
Stephen

[Wil Schroter]

If anyone wants to see a collection of many startup jobs (techcrunch, simply hired, et al) check out -

http://www.goBIGnetwork.com/jobs/

Guy, we should add your feed here to include some more distribution. Let me know if you have a specific RSS feed for it.

[Webconomist]

Great concept, little disappointed in the free calls post, more an ad than interesting story or relevant. The pedastal wobbled a bit there for me...

[Devdas Bhagat]

Not a startup job board, but http://www.hiddennetwork.com/

This is run by the same guy who runs thedailywtf.com, and is for people who do _not_ want to deal with WTFey issues/management.

[Scott Taylor]

Hi Guy,

Great addition, but one point.. when I tried to add a job posting I realized that only USA based companies can post a listing? Do you plan on making it international anytime in the future? Cheers.

Scott.

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Scott,

I'll check into this. Didn't realize it.

Guy

[John Nguyen]

Three words, "I Like It"

[Kimber]

I like this concept. Hhhmmm...I could see some creative young entrepreneur using the job boards as a means of hooking up with a like industry mentor. $49 to match up with a mentor would be a bargain.

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Thanks! Glad that you like it. My goal is to make this jobs board the most effective place for startups to recruit people and for people to find great startups.

Guy

[John Doe]

QUESTION: Guy do you screen all job posts before posting them (i.e. foul language)?

The introductory price of $50 is very cool and good way to gain market share away from the other startup blogs.

I cannot understand how 37 Signals can still charge $200 per job post while TechCrunch and GigaOM charge $150 only, but I guess it works for them.

Anyways, I hope you lead the way Guy and keep your prices very competitive. Rather then just being a follower and adjust your pricing to the $150 norm.

SIDE NOTE: Other startup job boards I follow for that perfect job are CrunchBoard, GigaOM, VentureBoard, 37 Signals, MetaFilter, and Tech Cocktail.

If anyone has any others startup job boards, please post, I would like to check them out.

[Anshu Sharma]

Now this is what I expect from the master- a master stroke.

I wouldn't be surprised if this recruitment thing doesn't snowball into something bigger than the blog.

[John Doe]

I found the startup job post for APPLE STORE MANAGER very appealing :)

[peter c.]

Sweet job board Guy. In the short time that this has been live, there are already quite a few interesting positions that seem relevant to your readers. This definitely beats finding these kind of jobs of Monster, HotJobs and even Craigslist.

[vantelimus]

Do you have any early feedback from your advertisers as to the efficacy of your blog at finding the right people? I see your earliest posting is Nov 20. So, maybe my request is too early. It would seem this would be a great place to find the marketing exec or higher-level technical person whose business interests range outside the technical.

[Berislav Lopac]

Actually, monetization is Web 2.1 -- or, rather, with it Web 2.0 finally gets out of its beta phase.

[Startups.in/India]

Interesting to see all high profile bloggers adding a job board. Guy, to differentiate from others, why don't you provide a free service to at least NGOs and other not-for-profit services to post their job requirements on your board? Agreed, it requires a bit of moderation but that shouldn't be so hard to do.