I was told a couple times this week that people love uCareer’s idea but they are concerned that this online job searching space is too crowded. Yes, there is no question about it: This space is very crowded, but it is crowded with the WRONG crowd. If you ask the job seekers out there, 9 out of 10 (if not all of them) would say that they are frustrated with the current players out there. Too many sites out there but no simple and easy way to manage them, too many postings out there, but too few real openings, tedious, painfully time consuming and often dubious application processes. This reminds me of Salesforce.com. When it first came out in the late 1990s, several big players dominated the CRM space and nobody believed that Salesforce.com would make it in that overcrowded space. But Salesforce.com not only made it, it made it big. Why? It was simply because even though the space was crowded and dominated by big competitors, the customers were frustrated by the arduous, complicated and inflexible tools that other CRMs had to offer. All Salesforce.com did was to provide what the customers wanted: a simple, easy and intuitive CRM tool. There was nothing revolutionary about it. In fact, because I loved it so much, I started a company helping others to design and implement CRM tools. At uCareer, we clearly understand the challenges out there, but we see more opportunities in this space as well. Why are we so confident? Because we know we are working on something our customers really want and desperately need.
