We developed the product internally and have worked hard to keep our GUI simple. And we believe that we’ve just begun the process steamlining usability. But with the UK’s largest offering of recruitment data, keeping things simple isn’t always so.

From semantic search, to advanced filtering tools, to constantly retweaked relevancy algorithms, and our newest addition – a real-time industry salary tracking tool SalaryTrack, we hope that we are beginning to bundle together a great tool set so that job seekers can quickly navigate the nearly 1mm jobs on offer in the UK alone.

We also realize that we’re just not smart enough to anticipate how individuals really want to search for jobs and it is for this reason that we have opened our platform to allow users to develop custom solutions that provide search data in the format, place and specifications that they will find most useful.

Per copyright issues, we operate as a search engine and have similar usage protections as companies like google, yahoo, and kayak.

We are always looking for great ideas/individuals to build further products in the space. We estimate that over 1 billion pounds annually will be spent on online recruitment advertising in the UK by 2011. Anyone who can build or architect scalable products that benchmark favorably with those developed by vc-backed firms like simplyhired or indeed, should feel free to contact me at bill at workdigital.co.uk.

Thanks,
William Fischer
Director, workhound.co.uk

As you can see many agencies post their adverts via campaign aggregators out to multiple sites so the problem site aggregators have is then removing the duplicates. I’m actually working on a similar idea (I own movejobs.com) so if there’s any investors wondering how to write something better than workhound and interested in investing, then please get in touch.

Craig (who won an award and was in the local paper for an internet job based search service in 1990).

Like the aggregate tools such as the salary finder (though it looks like I’m being paid too much!)

Q: How will they make money?

~R

I tried the search facility and its ok but could do with some fine tuning as well. Its just a keyword finder and is very basic. It’s certainly not the most user friendly search facility but for a early version it will do the job.

How did they build it though – neither of the co-founders have a technical background by the look of it – cant be an agency job surely?

What I wonder is how it is going to play out between job boards and job search sites like this. I know that S1 Jobs has blocked job search engines from scraping them of their content. If a couple of the big boards did that it wouldn’t be good for the search engines. (I remember eBay managed to legally block scrapers from their site).