For the life of me I can’t figure out why Dice and Monster have been so successful. For job seekers; the process of posting your resume and developing a profile is less then quick and intuitive. For employers like us, the cost of posting an opening and searching their resume database is a bit too much. Alternatives like 37Signals’ Job Board work well for our industry but they don’t offer the geo-targeted resumes which we are looking for.

So why hasn’t Google created a free competitor to Dice and Monster which is subsidized by ad revenue or charges a nominal fee for postings? It seems to fit nicely in their goal of indexing the World’s information; and I would expect it would be very well received by the business community.