In early 2000, Harrison Barnes, CEO of The Employment Research Institute, http://www.er.org (EMRI) set a goal to aggregate all of the publicly and privately available job listings in America, a daunting task when web aggregation was still in its infancy. Fast forward to 2013 and 50,000 members later, their database of quality employers and those seeking work is a perfect storm for success.
Advantage over traditional job posting sites
Unlike Monster, and other job classifieds, EMRI performs job research on any and all openings, which means they are not beholden to one system. If you are a member of Monster, you can only see job openings or employers within Monster; same with the dozens of other leaders in this space.
“If you were looking for the best shoes, would you want to know one store’s price, or compare every store’s price? Of course, you want to see the whole picture. And, that’s what this vast network has allowed for job seekers. A complete look at virtually every single possible job opening across multiple niches” – Harrison Barnes CEO EMRI.
Dwarfing the Monster
It takes an incredible amount of resources to crawl all job posting sites, including public, private, and government openings. This bandwidth requirement has forced the company to actually receive special permits to rip up the streets below their 20,000 square foot facility in California to accommodate for the data flow. Headed by Mihir Sheth, Chief Technology officer, the IT team developed the proprietary technology for years, and continues to expand and tweak to simplify the process for job seekers.
Featured twice in a row in the coveted Top 500 INC list (LawCrossing), Harrison Barnes has proven the need for not only employers, but job seekers to have a completely open, competitive marketplace for talent, where everyone wins.