Recently I talked to G.L. Hoffman, Chairman of LinkUp.com, a site that aggregates and publishes only jobs listed on corporate web sites from thousands of companies around the U.S.
LinkUp came about because of a team of developers and marketers who understood what the market, i.e. the job seeker wanted. Basically, instead of the typical job board, LinkUp only presents those jobs which companies post on their own career sections of their site. This means that the jobs are always real, always timely, and are never duplicated. Since most of the jobs are never advertised anywhere except the company’s own website, the job seeker who makes LinkUp one of the places he visits may find less competition for those jobs.
LinkUp is currently indexing over 22,000 company websites around the country, and their search engine contains anywhere between 400,000-500,000 jobs on any given day covering the entire U.S. economy in terms of vertical industries, salary levels, and locations.
Unlike other job boards such as Monster, Careerbuilder, and Craigslist, there are no scam ads, no risk of identity theft (they do not collect resumes and they do not allow anyone to directly post jobs onto the site), no 3rd party recruiters and staffing company ads, etc. And unlike other aggregators such as Indeed and SimplyHired that aggregate jobs from other job boards, LinkUp only aggregates from a single source – the hiring company or employer organization itself. As a result, there are no duplicate listings on the site. According to G.L., “Simply put, it is the best quality jobs database on the web today and reviews from around the web are overwhelmingly positive.” They have also recently received terrific reviews on their Facebook application for employers and iPhone app for job seekers.
In addition to overseeing LinkUp, G.L. is also currently Chairman of JobDig, an employment-focused media company that delivers multi-channel recruitment advertising solutions to employers of all sizes in all industries. JobDig publishes a free weekly jobs newspaper in markets throughout the U.S., operates the popular website jobDig.com, and partners with network and cable TV stations and radio stations in each of its markets to allow companies to leverage broadcast media in their recruitment advertising. He writes a daily blog, What Would Dad Say? and is a weekly guest writer at US News and World Report. You can also follow him on Twitter here.
