Web 2.0 - CV search - is this the future Jason?

Back in 1995 or thereabouts, Peoplebank launched as an early day CV database and quickly became an ATS.  Part of the process was that when an applicant registered for a job, they agreed to be searchable across all of the employers that use the Peoplebank system.  Peoplebank would then sell access to the residue of CV's and in return, the employers would get a percentage of the revenue.  It never actually came to anything much although I do think the CV's found their way into the job board CV database when Peoplebank were acquired (by a job board). 

A good idea as the employer brand will always attract a lot of good people.  So, what about the social networking type sites such as Jobster?  Due to the nature of the way that Jobster works, and if it does, they should end up with a database of pretty good, passive job seekers - the sweet spot of people!  Of course each person is only found by the people that they register with but, once they have a profile with Jobster, they can easily search for other companies on the Jobster site.  And, as per Jason Goldberg's post about Career SEO and your Jobster profile, it will be quite easy to find a Jobster profile via a search engine.  And, if Jobster try a little harder in optimising profiles, all of a sudden recruiters can find people a lot easier - a reverse of job seeking whereby job boards cram the organic search results with employer jobs, whereas Jobster cram the same with Jobster profiles - moreso by skills of course than name.

Going back to the Peoplebank idea, Jobster can then charge recruiters for the contact details - maybe a PPC type model - click to access the contact details and your Jobster account is charged accordingly.  Maybe Jobster could have different fees depending on content and maybe even pay the profile owner a percentage of the revenue.  They could even allow recruiters to vote (Digg) on the profile quality to have a self managed profile database.  Meanwhile, all those employers continue to build the quality by using the various tools Jobster make available to them.

Is this the future for Jobster?  Who knows, they have a great team of developers who add new functionality almost by the day, so it would not take them long to build the extra bits.  It may or not be part of the plan yet, but I'm sure it could help them beat Monster!