For almost a year now JobShouts has been working very hard at delivering value to our employers and job seekers. During this time, we have seen a lot of garbage masquerading as jobs. Heck let’s face it there is enough pond scum out there who will gladly take advantage of you, given the right opportunity.
We really have no experience with Hound in the traditional sense. We are not job seekers. We don’t know or care what kind of jobs they have on their site. However, they have taken it upon themselves to post their jobs on our board – blatantly against our terms of service and AFTER repeated warnings. So many times in fact, that we now have nearly 1500 IP addresses banned from accessing jobshouts.com.
Can I say I just love how easy it is to ban an entire class C subnet with our firewall? Thanks Media Temple. 
You guys rock for including that.
Hound.com also operates as lawcrossing.com, employmentcrossing.com, and HRcrossing.com. They may have a hundred more websites. This geek couldn’t care less but your jobs are NOT welcome on our board. We will never allow that to happen. EVER.
This morning I was greeted with a link to the content above via Google Alerts. I have Alerts set up so that anytime someone mentions JobShouts by name or by URL I get a notice. This notice, I’ll admit, completely incensed me. I cannot really get my head around the fact that hound.com is willing to pay a freelancer to post positions from their site to our site. Are they for real? What the F?
My immediate reaction at first was to contact the shorttask.com team and inform them of this flagrant violation against our terms of service.
Then I sat back and thought about it for a minute. Now I am blogging it to the world. Let the crawlers and spiders find this content. Maybe a wary job-seeker will be wise and find this before parting with their money. JobShouts believes that job seekers should NOT be paying fees for access to jobs. That is just retarded, that is what is ruining the online job experience for seekers.
Sites like the ladders.com and hound.com and its affiliates are not helping anyone. Especially when all the jobs they list are also on the large aggregates as well. Don’t waste your time with them. We certainly won’t!
