Golly.  Everyone is all in a tizzy today over HotJobs posting one of their openings on Craigslist. As Dave Manaster says, from a recruiting perspective, this is a non-story.  It's ridiculous to think that a company could successfully recruit from only one channel - and yes, even if that one channel is their own ... And as someone who is working with a job board while also consulting with employers and job seekers, I would NEVER suggest you put all your eggs in one basket.  Job and candidate searches are multi-faceted processes.  If you are an employer, you need to be driving traffic through job boards (yes, more than one), employee referrals, events, your own website, outreach campaigns, targeted sourcing, etc.  And likewise if you are a jobseeker.

On another note, I recently noticed that Monster expressly states that competitors can't post their jobs on the site: "All Users agree not to  ... post any jobs on any Monster Site for any competitor of Monster or posting jobs or other content that contains links to any site competitive with Monster."  Gee, talk about touchy.  None of the other big boys have this rule, and Monster even lists it very first in their "prohibited uses" section ... ahead of less important items like, I don't know, falsifying biographical information, promoting pyramid schemes, or reverse engineering the site?  Hey, if HotJobs - or even Monster for that matter - wants to post over here on JobBurner, we welcome you.  As long as your jobs are tech focused, of course. ;-)

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cross posted to the hotspot blog