Interview with Glenn Davies – jobportals.com.au

The Australian jobs portal market is dominated by just a few players, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t niche portal operators out there. Here, JXT Consulting’s Glenn Davies discusses the jobportals.com.au network, along with some of the issues facing niche portals in Australia.
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Interview with Michael Harvey – careerone.com.au

Australian jobs portal careerone.com.au has been operating in the shadow of seek.com.au for some time now, but could the portal’s recent switch to the Monster platform signal a change? Here, careerone.com.au CEO Michael Harvey outlines why he thinks careerone.com.au could become the jobs portal of choice in Australia.
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Interview with Ian Sprackling – gradfutures.com

Ian Sprackling has recently come on board as the CEO of gradfutures.com, a specialist jobs portal for UK graduates. Here, he outlines the state of the UK jobs portal market, argues the case for pay-per-lead, and explains why social media won’t take over as the online job search tool of choice.
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Interview with Paul Forster – Indeed

After another round of expansions, the Indeed job search engine now has a presence in 25 countries. We got in touch with co-founder and CEO Paul Forster to find out where Indeed has the strongest presence, whether he thinks job search engines and traditional portals can co-exist, and what Indeed’s future aims are.
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Interview with Sachin Shah – Simply Hired

Vertical job search engine Simply Hired had a big year in 2009, with expansions to multiple countries and a $4.6 million round of funding. Simply Hired does not charge companies to add their job feeds, but it does offer a pay-per-click model for sponsored listings.

jobsportalwatch.com recently spoke to Simply Hired’s director of international, Sachin Shah, to find out what challenges the search engine is currently facing, what it thinks of its competition, and what its plans are for the coming year.
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Interview with Gary Zukowski – tweetmyjobs.com

The rise of social media has created a swathe of jobs-related services aiming to take advantage of the social web. tweetmyjobs.com is one such offering – a Twitter-based job posting service that allows users to subscribe to Twitter “channels” and receive text messages on their mobile as soon as positions become available.
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Interview with Bill Fischer – twitterjobsearch.com

We first reported on UK company WorkHound’s Twitter-based job search engine twitterjobsearch.com back in May, when it was added to equest.com’s free job posting network.

Since then, twitterjobsearch.com has entered into a number of other partnerships, added a video CV option, released an iPhone application, and made use of LinkedIn’s API to create a career management tool for IT professionals.

Here, twitterjobsearch.com co-founder Bill Fischer talks to jobsportalwatch.com about these recent developments, the challenges involved in creating the job search engine, and twitterjobsearch.com’s plans for the new year.
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Interview with Joe Powell – seek.com.au

Established in 1997, seek.com.au leads the Australian jobs portal market by a wide margin, with a total of 3.829 million unique visitors in October this year according to Nielsen NetRatings. Parent company SEEK Limited, which also runs seek.co.nz, reported revenue of $209.8 million at the end of the 2009 financial year.

Here, SEEK Employment Australia and New Zealand managing director Joe Powell talks to jobsportalwatch.com about the portal’s position, the effects of the economic downturn, the place of smaller job boards in the market and seek.com.au’s future:
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Interview with Brian Ma – eggsprout.com

eggsprout.com is a Seattle based job board creation platform that launched in May this year. It incorporates social networking applications into customisable websites. Each website includes job postings on a particular topic as well as various social networking features such as a forum, blog, events calendar and Twitter feed.
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Interview with Lauren Friese – talentegg.ca

Lauren Friese is the founder of Canadian graduate jobs and information website talentegg.ca, which combines job openings with information for recent graduates and those looking to hire them. Here Lauren talks to jobportalwatch.com about the creation of talentegg.ca, its aims, and plans for the future.
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