In what could be described as an "interesting" move at best in the hr technology world,Recruithire today announced that it had acquired Dayak (OnRec's 2008 Game Changing Recruiting Technology).

It wasn't long ago where there were a number of these recruiter matching with company matching with job websites on the market like dayak.com, talentmaze.com andbountyjobs.com.  The biggest and most well known being Bountyjobs.    I remember hearing the bountyjobs.com pitch before they went public with marketing it and it seemed, well, like it would go over huge or fizzle out - much like jobster did after their massive marketing efforts went away.   You make the call on how successful it has been for you.

The bigger question is can this model ever really succeed or is too far a stretch for most recruiters (and companies) to care about making on a large enough scale to have a real impact?   In my opinion, in order to truly be successful, it would take a partnership with (or acquisition by)  a major job board that wanted to expand their current services to create a network for higher level positions that aren't traditionally advertised on their site and attract the 3rd party recruiter that wouldn't think of using their sites now.

Read the full press release here

Cross posted from HRTechnologyblog.com