Simply Hired Blog

DEMO done

so DEMOfall is now over, and our Job Search Sucks demo went pretty well (people laughed, and we didn't suck). we used our six minutes effectively, and the video clip appeared to be a real hit. no major snafus, and we didn't even break the Internet!

we didn't win DEMOgod, but at least jason meserve thought we rocked -- too bad he wasn't stuffing ballots. still, we did win awards for most creative elevator pitch, as well as most persistent pitch. (note to walt mossberg: you really should have come by our booth :)

thanks to chris shipley and others for a terrific DEMO experience... we had a great time. but as you can tell, we were pretty excited to be DONE.

Two-Point... Oh!

When we first launched the beta of SimplyHired.com 6 months ago, I titled the blog entry "Job Search Done Right." Since then Simply Hired has been continuously evolving, relying on feedback from users such as yourself, driving towards crafting the best possible candidate experience, and trying to live up to that original title.

We took a huge leap towards that goal today, when we unveiled "Job Search 2.0," the beginnings of a suite of candidate-focused tools and applications designed to deliver an enhanced and integrated job search experience.

In short: we just made it easier for you to find your dream job.

Over the next few days, I will go into more detail on these features, but here is the cliff-notes version:

• New filters:
• Company Revenue
• Company Size
• Work Experience
• Education Level
• Saved Searches
• "My Jobs" Upgrade
• Company Research tool
• Research Salary (partnership with PayScale.com)
• Browse Jobs
• (Simply) Suggestions

Oh. And we peeled the "beta" label off of our site. It left a sticky residue, but nothing that a little rubbing alcohol and some elbow grease couldn’t take care of.

(Check out our press release. Please. It will make our marketing folks feel useful. And, it has neat keyword tags, like: "deep web", "mashups" and "guacamole".)

Search SIG Starts Up; Sound Startups Seem Super

Last night Jeff Clavier and I co-chaired the kickoff of the very first SDForum Silicon Valley Search SIG kicked off, and we had a terrific event.

For notes on the evening, check out the following blogs and pix, and look for a future recording from Doug Kaye at ITConversations.

(thanks again to all our speakers, Doug for 'poderating', John Furrier for helping with the recording, and Jeremy Z et al from Yahoo for hosting!)

look for meeting info next month on a joing Mobile Search event with the Mobile Mondays group... tentatively scheduled for October 10th.

tag: SearchSIG

ps - Jeremy: sorry to hear about the flat.

Please Vote for Simply Hired in Business Week Poll

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If you love our job search, our LinkedIn integration, our Ratings, our Map Jobs feature, the Simply Fired Contest, and most of all our quirky error messages then...

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Simply Fired winner(s), new September contest

For folks who haven't noticed already, we're running another SimplyFired contest for September.

Due to overwhelming response -- and since people who didn't read the fine print on the contest end date kept sending us stories -- we've decided to keep the contest rolling, and (hopefully) do a new one every month. This month our grand prize winner will get a new Motorola ROKR cellphone (yeah, not quite an all-expenses paid Caribbean cruise for two, but hey... now that we're famous we're cheapskates don'tcha know).

And in case you haven't read a newspaper or listened to a radio lately, you may have missed our August contest winner Jim Garrison, fired for eating pizza. Other Simply Fired winners and their stories are also posted for your amusement. While you're at it, check out our 'Top 5 Reasons for Getting Fired'.

Thanks to everyone who participated, and we hope to continue featuring more of your funny, sad, crazy, and above all very human Fired Stories on SimplyFired.com in weeks & months ahead.