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roundpegs.com has launched! eharmony + job board + craigslist

After many months of hard work, we are proud to announce the launch of our website, roundpegs.com ! Our ultimate goal is to make finding a job and hiring employes actually work

online. We match job seekers to employers based on skills, preferences,

and intangibles — no more inefficient keyword searching. So you get

quality, compatible matches. All for free! — we are ad-supported. We’ve

built a great product that… Continue

Added by roundpegs on September 6, 2007 at 8:14pm — 2 Comments

Finding a Job Online is like Finding a Date Online

Our idea for roundpegs.com marries a lot of the ideas that work in the online dating model. In reality, finding a job and developing a career at a

company is very similar to finding a date and a building a relationship with someone you meet on a dating site online.

Some of the…

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Added by roundpegs on August 13, 2007 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Job Boards Aren't Working

Why Aren’t Job Boards Working?

too many results that aren’t a good fit
keyword searching provides inaccurate, irrelevant matches
finding a match is too time consuming
limited ability to pre-screen online

Anyone have any more ideas why job boards aren’t working online right…

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Added by roundpegs on August 10, 2007 at 9:09pm — 3 Comments

Job Boards as a Source of Hire - Growth since 2001

Job Boards / Sites have been growing on a steady clip in the last 5 years — I’ve been putting together some of the numbers from CareerXRoads - who seem to be one of the only sites online that compile year to year statistics of Job Source of Hire statistics (anyone…

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Added by roundpegs on July 28, 2007 at 10:21am — No Comments