The model is fairly simple: recruiters post jobs that candidates can apply to.

Headquartered in New York, New York, eHire has actually been in operation since 1999, and up until now, it functioned as a boutique recruiting firm. While operating as a recruiting firm, eHire also began to cultivate this latest vision and decided that the time was right in 2008 to go live with the new business model.

Currently posting and resume database privileges are by invitation only. Click here if you are recruiter and want to take a look at what eHire has to offer, click here.

These are the job listings on the site right now. There was only about 114 at last count.

Over 68 percent of respondents said no, they were not satisfied, whether it’s due to pricing, technology, or lackluster results.

A whopping 75 percent of respondents said that resume databases do not uncover quality candidates. No surprise there, since finding the right person via a large database is like searching for a needle in a haystack. One might spend hours typing in various acronyms, adjectives, and well-worn phrases like “problem-solver” or “top earner 2007,” when they really wish that the perfect candidate could be packaged with praise and hand-delivered to their in-box with minimal leg work.

Job sites like craigslist, which offers free postings in many cities, are fast-becoming the preferred method of posting jobs over sites like Monster and Careerbuilder, which can cost anywhere from $115 to $300 per posting, as opposed to the $25 (or nothing) that craigslist charges.

According to Peter Weddle, 50,000 job boards are operating now and 110,000 are expected to be live by 2011. The gap between employers and job seekers is widening.

Employers have more choices that can be customized to suit their company’s needs. They will no longer need to fork over $30,000 for a standard pack of postings on a general job board, and another $2,000 to have access to a vast database that is like pawing through a giant pot of gumbo for that prized bite of shrimp.

Instead, according to the survey, which stated that 64 percent of HR reps would prefer a pay-for-quality pricing model over the traditional pay-per-post option, staffing and human resource professionals would either like the model of the traditional job board to be vastly improved upon, or they will be turning to niche job sites to find candidates in a less costly, time-consuming manner.

Rafael Cosentino, VP of Business Development for Realmatch, says because of the cooling economy and a general dissatisfaction when dealing with traditional job boards, hiring professionals are seeking more cost-effective approaches at a rapid rate, explaining why some job boards have shown a recent decline in purchases.

“Realmatch differentiates itself with technology, reach, features and pricing. The technology makes the process fast, the network provides access to lots of users in lots of industries, the features make the process simple and the pricing removes the risk because employers only pay if they decide to open the resume of a matching and interested candidate,” Cosentino said. “We believe our pricing model lets the genie out of the bottle by lowering the barrier and making it risk free for employers to post their jobs.”

One wonders why traditional job boards are still being utilized by any company, when considering the blazing ads, muddled resumes, and costly features that are in the end a detriment and a poor representation to the job seeker. Just as Marketing must present customer-focused, results-driven ideas to their clients, job boards need to do the same to keep their customers happy. No longer is it the case that one HR rep refers Monster to another; instead, HR is getting together over lunch to talk about another fruitless day spent searching through a job board database. And next year, they might be taking their budget dollars elsewhere.

“Consumers are inundated with vast amounts of information and often have a difficult time sorting through what is relevant, important or urgent to their everyday needs,” said Alerts.com co-founder and chief executive officer, Pascal Stolz. “Alerts.com is a user-friendly service that helps users aggregate what they want from one secure source.”

Users can log on to alerts.com and customize a profile that triggers Jobster to send job alerts based on the geography and job function the user selected.

The web site also supplies alerts for RSS feed keywords, airfare pricing, events, and birthdays. Earlier this month, Alerts.com announced a partnership with PR Newswire, enabling them to offer alerts based on press releases and other newsworthy content.

Alerts.com plans to remove the beta in late 2008.

The career resources portal will also be offering video production, hosting, and job posting integration to enhance the video component.

Each Monster Video Profile will offer three different video presentation options:

1) Company close-up: an in-depth company profile highlighting corporate culture, benefits, and work environment

2) Company snapshot: a spotlight that highlights one or two aspects of the company

3) Career insider: a video snippet that gives job seekers “a day in the life” of an employee

Monster.ca is also offering the option to have existing corporate video added directly to an employer’s posting.

To see which companies are also jumping ship, visit www.mffais.com/mnst.html.

PeopleAhead.com, founded in 2006 by Babson College MBAs, uses an intelligent search platform that delivers multidimensional career profiles from qualified candidates.

Carlos Larracilla, co-founder, PeopleAhead: “Millions of jobs are posted online, but professionals and hiring companies continue to rely solely on static resumes and job descriptions to evaluate each other. Members of our community use PeopleAhead for continuous career advancement rather than one-time job search. In doing so, they establish multidimensional career profiles which contain rich information, such as 360° competency evaluations. Because our TrueMatch technology identifies alignment between member profiles and hiring companies’ available career opportunities, we streamline the arduous task of recruitment by delivering only pre-qualified, interested candidates.”

Professionals can also import their existing LinkedIn profiles into PeopleAhead to begin test-driving the TrueMatch technology.