Comments on: Yahoo's new social job network: Kickstart

Yahoo is conducting research for a new social job network called Kickstart.

[montipat]

iHipo.com is the pioneer in that area

http://www.iHipo.com launched late June 2007 and is sort of a pioneer for that concept: Social network + Jobsite focused on students and young professionals. After barely 2 months we were able to attract top-tier advertising clients and a good number of signups. We are currently upgrading several important parts of the site (e.g. completely revamped community section) and will introduce other new features soon. Interesting to see that Yahoo might come out with a similar concept now.

[vikqcinter]

Is there anything mind-blowing about it?

I think in order to monetize the idea, one would need to achieve a good level of integration with
1)University students database
2)Existing career sites like monster,careerbuilder
Otherwise, for me all this looks same, facebook can move towards this direction any day they fear a drop in their market share..I think this is a good risk if intelligently intergrated

[jobmatchbox]

What is Kickstart?

There was a some recent buzz about Yahoo!'s upcoming Facebook killer project called Mosh. Kickstart sounds like buzz/hype/focus group for Mosh. In any event it would be nice to have a tool that enables companies to empower their employees as agents of their college recruiting team.

Bob
Jobmatchbox.com

[piyushkotecha1]

Login to wwww.zyoin.com. A referral based recruitment portal with applicant status tracking.
Apply in great IT product's companies and EARN CASH REWARDS ON REFERRAL.
Rewards worth Rs.100 lakhs to be won!