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Isn’t the real elephant in the room Craig’s List? They have the free posting, and could turn on jobseeker profiles relatively easy. Then they’re one step away from matching, which is just not a hard problem.

On the product feature question:

Another funny thing is this term “matching.”

To the jobseeker, “match” might sound like “find me more potential jobs.”

But really what employers want is a doofus filter, i.e., keeping the low quality out.

Since the basis for the match is self-describing tags, how do you do that? How many people will tag themselves with “moron,” “lazy,” “argumentative,” etc.? To be sure, people might tag themselves with categories (”marketing,” “engineering,” “Java,” whatever), but those aren’t QUALITATIVE tags.

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Monster and Careerbuilder trumpeted their partnerships with Facebook and abandoned their efforts almost as quickly. Jobster, to its credit, is taking a different approach by doing more on Facebook than just throwing up some banner and text link ads. Jobster will actually power a career center for Facebook.

But will employers be able to overcome their belief that Facebook is nothing more than an 21st century version of a 1980’s video arcade with kids hanging out and doing things of which their parents would disapprove? Will employers pay to post job openings to Facebook or will those be free as they are now on Jobster? If employers get to post jobs for free, will enough upgrade to paid services in order for this partnership to be profitable for Jobster?