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New firm gets foot in door among job-listing Web sites

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By RICHARD MULLINS

rmullins@tampatrib.com

Published: May 8, 2009

Robin Eads has one of the most unlikely problems imaginable in today's economy: Hundreds of jobs to fill and only a handful of people applying.

Management trainees at Blinds to Go. Software engineers at sporting goods company Oakley. Forty-four jobs at the shopping network HSN, including art director and fitness product buyer.

"We have jobs out there for everything from hotel receptionist to nuclear scientists," said Eads, who recently started JobShouts, a recruiting Web site. "I only wish more people were applying for them. Some jobs have no applicants at all yet."

A longtime corporate recruiter herself, Eads formed the company in Tampa in January with partner Michael Quale. So she has a lot of marketing work to do to spread the word about her company.

Since her site launched in January, companies have posted more than 2,400 jobs. The majority are professional-level full-time positions with name-brand companies. A few hundred people have applied.

To try and stand out, JobShouts started with one big distinction: no cost for companies to post a job, no cost for job seekers to apply. And anyone can receive a Twitter alert about a new job.

When a job is posted, it cascades through JobShouts.com to a series of social media sites: Facebook, Craigslist, Twitter.

Job seekers can anonymously upload their qualifications and get text alerts when jobs appear that match their skills.

Jobshouts isn't going it alone. It has partnered with the recruiting site Indeed .com , so thousands of the latter's postings appear on JobShouts, and vice versa.

Other partnerships are in the works.

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