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Jobnob.com, which launched last month, reports hundreds of thousands of salaries for real jobs at real companies, and there are many more waiting to be loaded, said founder and co-president Julie Greenberg.

She said she started the company because she doesn’t want job seekers to be in the position she was in when she graduated from Northwestern University in her early twenties and suddenly realized she had no idea how to look for a job.

Greenberg went on to work in business and get an MBA from Stanford, but “it was really shocking to me and my friends that there was so little information available,” she said. “Despite all the advances on the Internet, you still can’t Google what people do and how much they earn.”

Jobnob aims to change that, and Greenberg said there are more features to come once the company raises money. (Greenberg and her co-president, Alan Shusterman, have so far funded it themselves). To start, Jobnob’s salary information is reported by employers, not employees, which makes it different from some other job-hunting sites. Greenberg won’t reveal how Jobnob gets its data, but said the company’s method is comprehensive and “100 percent legal.”

Information is also free to users, which include several university career centers, and the founders plan to keep it that way.

Jobnob will make money by charging companies to post job openings, and since the site is organized by company and profession, Greenberg figures employers will have a better chance of getting their ads in front of people who truly want to work for that particular company or at that particular job.

By Deborah Gage
March 13, 2009
source: sfgate.com