
The existing jobs websites in Israel fall into 4 categories: corporate websites listing job openings such as Intel’s (Hebrew), recruiter websites like TripleTec’s, job boards like Jobnet’s or employment resource directories like UzIT’s Shimushon (Hebrew). After my recent successful Israeli job search during the summer and autumn of 2006, a friend and I started JobMob with the intention of doing something very different.
Continue reading >> Who Are You?
--Jacob Share

These were the most-read articles posted on JobMob over the month of April 2007 according to FeedBurner’s Site Statistics.
Continue reading >> Top Posts for April 2007
--Jacob Share

Many companies use ESOPs (Employee Stock Option Plans) to lure new talent. However as the first major vesting date appears on the horizon for the members of its ESOP, Google is anxious about a brain drain of the newly-rich. Together with backdating scandals that have hit companies like Apple and Monster, could this be the [...]
Continue reading >> Death of the Employee Stock Option?
--Jacob Share

The Dream Job. The one that you never want to end. The one that you would love. The one that you’ve never had and may never have. Until now.
In Theory
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it
Flashback. When I was a teenager growing up in Montreal, I loved baseball. A friend and I would try to see as many games as possible each summer, and every time we went to the stadium to watch our favorite team (the now-defunct Expos), we would rave about what work must be like as a batboy, the next best thing to actually being a player.
Being a batboy was our dream job at that time, a job we would have done for free paid to do. The fact is that we saw only one facet of that job – the batboy helping the players during the game – and that if we’d known his entire job description including all the time he spends cleaning, polishing and shining, we would have set our hearts elsewhere.
Continue reading >> The Secret To Finding Dream Jobs
--Jacob Share