Lately the industry has been so focused on Google dominating the classified ad business that most people didn’t really look at challenging the established model.

We actually found one. And not in the US, but from Europe. It’s called JobDealer.

It is actually an eBay of jobs. Your organization posts the job on the site and individuals bid their services for a set salary amount! The online marketplace concept is a well known approach, and this site – even though very embryonic – is very interesting.

At Taleo, we have enabled our customers to display the salary range on the job description as an option for several years, but very few use it. So the future is open to see how the market will react to making public a data point (salary) that is usually kept very confidential in the talent bidding process