JobServe has just launched a new pricing strategy where advertisers can pay for performance rather than a flat fee per job post. Here’s a quote from site founder Chris Klots on the new pricing model:

“The old ‘pay and pray’ pricing model was a legacy from the print days, and JobServe have challenged it with a revolutionary ‘P4P’ model (pay for performance). The future for the recruiting industry is not only online, but in only paying for what is delivered. Recruitment agencies only get paid when they make a placement, so we job boards should only get paid when we deliver applications.”

You can find the entire press release by JobServe by clicking here.

This is not the first time I’ve heard of this strategy being implemented by a job board. I like the idea of advancing the signifance of job boards as a valuable recruitment tool, and this may be one way for it to happen.

What are your thoughts on the subject?

This one has been around for at least a year but I haven’t seen many versions of it being used so I thought that I would post it out there for more people to find.

The company is called Fourty Five. They are out of Romania and run a couple of successful job boards. About a year and a half ago, this group of developers decided to share the code for one of their job boards, http://www.jobber.ro/, with the rest of the online community. It was released under the name of JobberBase as an open source code and it is available for anyone to download…for free. That’s right, you can conceivably start your own job board today, FOR FREE.

I checked out the demo site and it is pretty straight forward. Without modification to the code, anyone can post a job, and anyone can search jobs. In order to make any money off of this platform, I think that some additional code work would need to be done so that the owner of the site has more control over content and UI. But it is an excellent starting point if you are looking to create a new job board a la Web 2.0.

Most of us that have used the existing job boards out there know that a 2.0 upgrade is badly needed for most of these sites. Have you ever thought to yourself while conducting searches that you could create something better? More user friendly? Well here’s your chance.