Thank you for the feedback and great question!
Why build another job board really? Job boards are dying (so is SEO, right!?) and with the advent of LinkedIn, I can easily find the recruiters or hiring managers in the companies I want to work.
But people will always need a way to find open positions. That's what job boards are all about.
The landscape may be changing, but there is still opportunities to do things better.
JobKaster was built because the other 100K job boards couldn't do what we wanted them to - a simple local job search.
Traditional job boards use a zip code based search using distance from the zip code. It seems that this would work, but when I was searching and ended up frustrated, the results were returning up jobs 15 miles out of my specified range.
I think the difference here is the fact that location becomes the most important aspect of the job search where on the other job boards, it is simply another filter.
If you work for one of the big job boards, you probably have several niche boards under your umbrella as well. Each of those serve a specific niche which is the same thing we are trying to do.
We want to help people find jobs when location is paramount. I hated my commute, and I just wanted to find something closer to home. My Co-Founder, wanted to find a job close to the beach. But what about others? What about the single mom that wants to be close to her child's day care? What about the guys and gals taking public transportation to work? What about students trying to find something close to campus? I could name 100's of examples, and I think JobKaster fits that niche quite well.
I would love to talk about this more in depth, especially with someone who has so much experience in job boards. Feel free to shoot me an email at paul@jobkaster.com or we can continue the discussion here if you like.
