I am working on this very problem!! Our team builds corporate career sites. Were you on a job board or Corp site?

I was reading what sologig sent this morning.

I agree. Was on job sites for ages and had to go through mountains of junk to find something worthwhile. Eventually? Not worth the effort.

thoughts around what you "elements" a good site would match you against and how much time you'd be willing to spend in the process?

I'm a great candidate, hire me, I'll tellyou anything you want to hear

LOL - how does an application get at you being "a great candidate" and not just "willing to take any job"

there are two elements obviously. the skills and then the traits. both have to match yeah? Gallup has this down pretty well but is arduous

I think two young companies are addressing issues surrounding this: standoutjobs.com and infopath101

marenhogan we have to win on both sides: results returned need to be valid and relevant - and the user expereince has to be a good one

I seem to get two headhunters a month finding me for SEO on linkedin.

On a specific company's career site - what process can they take you thru to help you figure out where you fit in at that company?

susan burns said that they mapped midlevel execs to high level ones and showed exactly what jobs they held along the way

When she was at Federated. I don't if that's called career mapping or what but since titles are so vague nowadays, a clear path of where the

job COULD take you and in how long (avg.) that would be very cool.

That's really awesome for internal mobility, it is definitely harder when trying to map someone from the outside - what questions get asked?

Wonder whether they realize a little more upfront time would save tons of work later

if candidates realize? W/ candidates, issue of what users are willing to do depending on if they're actively looking or just browsing