I'm headed out to a lunch seminar today put on by Jobster, the hot employment company that has been the subject of a lot of positive press in the Wall Street Journal and the Recruiting Blogosphere (notice how I equate the importance of the two in my post).
Some people get confused as to my relationship with Jobster, so I thought I'd clear it up and also give them a free advertisment. This is all my opinion, and I'm sure I'll get some things wrong, but that should be corrected at their tour this afternoon, no?
About Jobster:
Jobster wants to turn traditional recruiting on its head and make recruiters think like marketers. Their flagship product is a social networking referral system that helps your employees, vendors, and their known friends find the best people for you.
It's like an employee referral system on steroids, but restricted to people who receive invitations.
Jobster also has a vertical search engine (it's ajob aggregator), workplace mash-ups, and a series of properties in online employment. In June, they acquired Recruiting.com, a group blog recruiting portal. That's where I come in.
My relationship with Jobster:
I'm an author for Recruiting.com, having been invited to blog there by Jason Davis, the founder of Recruiting.com. Over the course of the last sixteen months, I've written posts at Recruiting.com, edited the weekly newsletter, This Week, and served as a kind of reporter for Recruiting.com, seraching out new online employment sites.
I was compensated for my work at Recruiting.com, am currently paid to put together the Recruiting.com newsletter (which I'm paid for), and I still write for Recruiting.com, not as a consultant.
Summary:
I'm excited to go to the tour - my relationship with Jobster has not been a close one, and I've avoided searching too much about them out of concern for remaining objective. They are such a big part of the online employment puzzle, that I have to set that aside and see what the are all about. This I can tell you - they hire lots of smart people, and from what I know of their clients, they are very happy with their results from the referral software system.
More of an update on Monday.
