As many will know I used to work for Onrec and as such I saw just about every permutation of job board rise and fall, some were a raging success and others were doomed from the first time I spoke with them (unfortunately this accounted for the VAST majority of new launches I encountered). There were many people who actually had good ideas they just launched them at a time when the market was in a terrible state and they had nothing like the money they needed to enter it at the time and survive. I sincerely hope those that had good ideas will have the courage to give it another go when the job market is more stable (and by the way, I don't think that's happened yet, personal opinion only!!).

The one group of sites I used to REALLY hated hearing from was ones launched by recruiters, people who own a high street or specialist agency who just thought "I'm not doing well with placing temps and perms right now, blimey, you can set up a job board on the cheap, I wonder if it will a) give me some leads or b) make me some cash on the side"

I really thought the industry had seen the end of these chancers but apparently not, I get them coming to me through linkedin and through my site (two announced with some fanfare today) and I have one thing to say to them all.. Can you PLEASE stop, it's pretty obvious to anyone with a brain that you are not doing this to launch a real service, you are trying to build candidate databases for your core business and we do really understand that you are using it for lead generation in a tight market...

Rant over....