Simply Hired, the Mountain View job search engine, continues to expand its distribution network aggressively in this competitive industry.
The start-up will announce tomorrow that it will power the online job search of the nation’s fifth largest newspaper, the New York Post. It will also introduce “Resume Post” on MySpace. This lets job seekers at MySpace also post their resume to six different job boards at once, including Monster, CareerBuilder, Job.com, GettingHired, Net-Temps and Beyond.com.
Simply Hired calls itself the largest job search engine, with more than 5 million job listings and counting. The deals are just the latest in an aggressive push by the company for to maximize the reach of its search. It is signing up big sites and little sites. It already powers the search of MySpace Jobs and LinkedIn Jobs. It also sports a range of specialty job searches, for example at companies that are eco-friendly, elderly friendly, gay friendly, and dog friendly. Some of its competitors are Indeed, Jobster, and a new company called itzBig
Simply Hired has raised $17.7 million in funding from News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media, Foundation Capital, Garage Technology Ventures and individual investors.
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Leon said:
Simply Hired appears to be a job and resume bank. The site seems to have been launched in early 2005. Traffic on the site has been declining in 2006 according to Alexa. CNN Money reported in April 2006 that the company raised $13.5 million from News Corp and Foundation Capital. Another $3 million was raised in August 2005 according to the company’s press release.
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dave mcclure said:
Leon: while i won’t comment on the overall accuracy (or lack thereof) of Alexa traffic metrics, regardless i don’t believe the MySpace & LinkedIn traffic #’s are included in the Simply Hired alexa ranking.
[full disclosure: i'm an investor in Simply Hired, and former employee / current advisor]
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Phil Carpenter said:
Leon: to build on Dave’s comment … With Alexa, you get what you pay for.
Actual traffic growth is quite robust when a) you use a more reliable data source, like comScore, and b)when you add partner traffic to the traffic to simplyhired.com. With more than 130M MySpace members, there are boatloads of them hunting for jobs at any given moment.
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Ted said:
According traffic measurement tools visit following thread: http://webmeasurement.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/siliconbeat-beats-webanalytics-industry/
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Simply Hired expansion « Technically Speaking said:
[...] Simply Hired, will be announcing today of powering the New York Post’s online job search. This is the 5th biggest paper in the country. They are also announcing something called “Resume Post” on MySpace. They already power MySpace Jobs. Not to forget they also are powering LinkedIn Jobs. I think they have pretty much covered all bases. Oh, one last thing, they have $17.7 million in financing from News Corp and it’s base of companies. [...]
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Web Strategy by Jeremiah » SimplyGrowth at SimplyHired said:
[...] SimplyHired is advancing it’s exposure to the NYPost and allowing the MySpace generation to upload resumes writes Venture Beat. “…it will power the online job search of the nation’s fifth largest newspaper, the New York Post. It will also introduce “Resume Post†on MySpace. This lets job seekers at MySpace also post their resume to six different job boards at once, including Monster, CareerBuilder, Job.com, GettingHired, Net-Temps and Beyond.com…” [...]
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BlogForward : Money » Valley in merger fever: Google looks at SimplyHired? said:
[...] SimplyHired recently launched its job-o-matic service, which lets bloggers create their own job boards, and they signed deals to power MySpace and LinkedIn jobs. SimplyHired has raised $17.7 million from Fox Interactive Media (News Corp), Foundation Capital and others, most recently at a rumored sub-$40 million post money valuation. See our coverage here. [...]
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CAREERMAP » Valley in merger fever: Google looks at SimplyHired? said:
[...] SimplyHired recently launched its job-o-matic service, which lets bloggers create their own job boards, and they signed deals to power MySpace and LinkedIn jobs. SimplyHired has raised $17.7 million from Fox Interactive Media (News Corp), Foundation Capital and others, most recently at a rumored sub-$40 million post money valuation. See our coverage here. [...]