SimplyFired.com

Monday August 1, 2005

Sure to be a huge hit, SimplyFired.com is set to go live today. What is it, exactly?

"Amidst the sea of corporate layoffs announced recently, Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com), the world’s largest search engine for jobs, today launched SimplyFired.com, a website for fired and laid off workers to share and submit their stories. Joining to help launch the site is Mark Jen, the infamous blogger who made headlines after being fired by Google for his blogging earlier this year. Jen, who now works for Plaxo, will be featured on the site along with his account of getting fired. He will also serve as a judge for a “Simply Fired Contest” to uncover the most captivating and compelling stories about people who have lost their job."

Okay, so if you have a truly pitiful story about being fired, go ahead and submit it to SimplyFired.com. Some of the other judges include these notables:

Guy Kawasaki from Garage Ventures
Chris Pirillo from Lockergnome; Chris also has a nice little blog that is well worth subscribing to.
Phil Kaplan of AdBrite.com

So what do you win? It's pretty cool.

"The judges will select a Grand Prize “Loser” who will win a trip for two on “The Apprentice” Legend Cruise with other cast members fired by Donald Trump on the award-winning reality TV show. The winner and a guest will be flown to New York City, where Donald Trump will keynote a bon voyage party to kickoff the week-long Caribbean cruise on September 26, 2005. Onboard the cruise, guests will also be competing in a series of career contests hosted by the former fired Apprentices."

Related:

Indeed.com: Indeed.com is a specialized job search engine that searches "all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages."
Yahoo's HotJobs.com: Yahoo's improved their Hotjobs.com property recently.
LinkedIn.com: a job search engine with a social networking twist.