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Gautam Godhwani, CEO Simply Hired

Monday, 21 May 2007

Online Savvy: A Podcast with Gautam Godhwani - Simply Hired CEO and co-founder.

MySpace Jobs is Powered by Simply Hired, the jobs on LinkedIn, and now, MySpace UK has a MySpace Jobs.

Gautam Godhwani

The last panel discussion at the Kennedy Information Recruiting 2007 Conference in Las Vegas kept the crowd to the end. Titled "The Electronic Future and Forward Thinking Recruiting, the panel was moderated by Tony Lee, Chief Alliance Officer & Executive VP at Adicio; panelist included Chelle Biza Classified Recruitment Manager, The Las Vegas Review-Journal; Joel Cheesman, CEO, HRSEO; Tim Driver, CEO of Retirementjobs.com; and our guest today on Total Picture Radio, Gautam Godhwani, CEO and co-founder of Simply Hired. An emerging trend in recruiting is the fact that recruiters, looking for the best talent (i.e. passive candidates), find more specialized candidates by looking deeper into sites that define themselves by industry, function, location and community. This trend is very much in evidence at Simply Hired, which continues to build relationships, big and small. Over 1000 Bloggers use Simply Hired "Job-o-Matic Network" to post jobs relevent to that Blogger's community.

Simply Hired's goal - simply stated on their website is: "We can't always promise you'll discover your dream job, but we'll give you the best chance possible to get a bigger paycheck, a more considerate boss, or a shorter commute."

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About Gautam
Source: Simply Hired Website
Gautam runs the show at Simply Hired, and the buck stops in his cube. And if he keeps us headed in the right direction, it may even become two bucks. In the meantime, he encourages us to do a lot with a little, and to be creative with our ideas and our energy (translation: free popcorn, unlimited O'Reilly books, but no aeron chairs). Gautam has lots of experience starting startups, and finding great people to help grow them. Prior to Simply Hired, he co-founded the India Community Center to help bring the SF bay area community closer together. Before that, he was CEO and co-founder of AtWeb, an Internet 1.0 company acquired by Netscape/AOL in 1998. AtWeb made a product called Web Site Garage that helped millions of small businesses "tune-up" their websites, and registered them with all the leading search engines. Before he invented the Internet, Gautam worked for several small businesses including HP, IBM, and Microsoft.

Resources:
Simply Hired
Simply Fired
Kennedy Information
Kennedy Recruiting 2007 Conference and Expo

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