In January 2002, Yahoo! acquired New York-based, HotJobs.com for $436 million. HotJobs especially gained popularity following a $1.6 million TV advertisement run on Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999. Today, the service is known as Yahoo! HotJobs.
Yahoo! HotJobs recently launched a Facebook application. I briefly added the Application to see what it was about. After I added the application, Yahoo! HotJobs asked me to vote for and tag one of my friends who is “Most likely to quit the corporate world and move to Tibet to become a monk?” Yahoo!’s Elaine Lee is the lead overall with 5 votes as of right now. And the application also asks what are the top 3 companies that you would love to work for? And since I don’t really have any other friends that added the Application yet, the See your friends’ “Top 3” list did not display anything.
One of the cool features of Yahoo! HotJobs is the ‘Where My Friends’ work feature. In alphabetical order, companies are listed and a thumbnail will be displayed underneath each company of the person that works there.
As more friends add the application, you can see the keywords that they are using to search for as well as the locations and Category.
While HotJobs is a great job search engine, I don’t really see much use for it personally as a Facebook application.
What I mean by that is if I was searching for a job, the first thing I would not do is log into Facebook and use the HotJobs application. I might go to HotJobs.com directly or Monster.com.
