This week Jeremy added a job listing board to his site. Adding job listings to sites has become a bona-fide trend this year. It would seem that job boards are becoming the new Google AdSense as a way for people to generate some revenue from the popularity of their site.
I don’t have any problems with concept in general, people should be able to benefit from their sites. What gets me is when sites start to feel like they are turning into job boards. I like the way that Jeremy has the job listings as a side box on his site. If half of his posts turn into ads for jobs, then it will get old fast.
So how long until we start seeing job listing networks that operate in same way that ad networks work? Perhaps Yahoo! should jump on this trend and start offering to display ads on other sites, basically a YPN for job listings. They already have plenty of jobs to list from HotJobs.