As Jobster welcomes Jobby to the fold, I thought it was worth sharing some of the ideas that we think make Jobby special.

Jobby applies folksonomies to career skills, to make the process of creating and searching profiles faster, more entertaining, and more relevant.

1.  When you create a profile, you can quickly click on relevant skills in a tag cloud for your speciality (say web geek).  AJAX means instant responses as you add skills.   Instead of hardcoding the set of skills in the system, Jobby relies on the community to create and weight the different skills, ensuring that they stay up to date and relevant. 

2.  If you have a skill that’s not in the system, you can add your own tag. Jobby will search for similar tags already in the system to avoid duplication.

3.  The AJAX search interface allows users to quickly rapidly filter down the set of users by clicking on tags.

These ideas become even more compelling when integrated with other social search features we have in development for professionals and recruiters.