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Can’t we all just get along? Here is the thesis of this post, Recruiting.com and RecruitingBlogs.com are not competitors. For this recruiter and for this blogger, they serve two distinctively different parts of my daily activities. Recruiting.com:1) …

Ning obviously has something going on that Jobster has missed. As a member of the Ning developer community I am seeing a lot of new recruiter networking sites going up.

I just wish Jason Davis the best in this situation. Ning is the thing!

This is just another indication of Jason Goldberg’s business immaturity. I can’t believe that he has real lawyers on is payroll who would give him advice that would include sending a cease and desist letter to a former employee who was doing nothing more than blogging.

Is it any wonder that Joel Cheeseman’s article about Jason Goldberg “killing Jobster” brought so many comments? Possibly the first time I made public comment about Goldberg was in my article “Will recruiters become extinct?” where I take Jason to task for not understanding the value proposition of recruiters. After he unceremoniously ended Jason Davis’s helmsmanship of Recruiting.com, I took him to task again in my article about John Sumser taking over the site.

My bet – recruitingblogs.com will last longer than Jobster, and eventually make more money.

On the other hand, it’s another recruiting site, so there might be enough to hold water. As others have pointed out though, comparing a free ning site to recruiting.com might be a stretch.

Seems like this is the worst kind of PR for a company that is already obviously struggling. To make this kind of a fuss over a tiny community of recruiting bloggers on a free Ning site. Doesn’t reflect well on them at all, especially since this community is also Jobster’s target audience. Partnering with Recruitingblogs.com would make far more sense than ordering its founder to cease and desist. Not a good business decision on Goldberg’s part at all.

This may turn out to be a very interesting lesson. What is a “fairly standard non-compete”, anyway?

Maureen Sharib

I dont know either of the parties, but Jobster has a right to ask him to honor his agreement. Since Jason is smart and a thinker, then he should take his creative juices into a different space. I see nothing wrong with that.

But come on dude man up. You cant have your cake and eat it. shutdown and honor your word. How about Jobster returning the favor ..

non compete aside, if jobster is really threatened by another wordpress installation or whatever it’s running on, and they’re wasting precious remaining dollars on this litigious endeavor, then they’ve got some bigger damned problems to contend with…

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My view is simple – I know all of the parties, and while I don’t have everyone’s story straight, I can tell you that Jason Davis is not competing with Jobster for anything.

He’s a tinkerer and an experimenter of the first order. He had recruiting blogs, first as an RSS feed, and then as a Ning community he built just to play with.

When his contract ended, he started tinkering with it more, and with the help of the current executive editor of Recruiting.com and other bloggers, who linked to him and said what a wonderful job he was doing, it took off.

No money is made from recruitingblogs.com. No services are sold. No advertisements. It’s a playground for recruiters, and most of it is driven by those recruiters, not Davis.

It is their site now, and for Jobster to say that Jason is breaking his non-compete is a big stretch.

Recruiting.com/Jobster should focus on improving their own site, seeing as they have the SEO, the traffic, the personnel, the money and the brand. And most important they should never send threatening letters to bloggers. I mean come on – what possible damages could recruitingblogs be doing to Jobster?

If Davis had joined ERE or SHRM or Monster, or a software company that competed with Jobster, they’d have a case, and I wouldn’t have written what I did. The real hassle is this isn’t helping the recruiting blogosphere grow and prosper.

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Jobster model was flawed from the beginning. It was all hype to begin with. Here is why. You cannot add social networking elements with HR. HR do not want to see pictures. They will get sued like crazy for discrimination. For all those who wanted LinkedIn to include photos or social networking element (posted few days ago) on their site should look at jobster as Jobster was the mouse on this experiment and it is slowly dying. Companies are shying away from Jobster and sorry to be skeptical but I give Jobster 6 months to fold or even sooner.

I just can’t believe how experienced VC’s did not see this.

Unless, the non-compete completely precludes JD from anything in the recruiting social media space – obviously blogging, what about vidcasting, podcasting, etc.? Can he have a presence in SecondLife?

Finally, if the non-compete is enforceable, and JD is in the wrong, I would have to question Jobster’s intention with this space. I’ve wondered what real business purpose they have there, except to extend their brand to recruiters (ok, duh, that’s why they are there). But JD’s site isn’t the only distraction in this recruiting blog space, and if he is forced to shut down I have a feeling he will have a lot of his recruiting bloggers 100% supporting what he originally started.

This will be interesting to watch, I have met both Jason and Jason personally and, aside from having great first names (:p) I like them both.

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