Most jobs are posted on employer websites and not commercial job boards. The reason for this is that it is free for employers to post jobs on their own sites and may cost $300 or more for an employer to post a job on a commercial job site. Because jobs on employer websites typically are not anywhere near as known about as they would be if they were on a site like Monster, HotJobs, Indeed, CareerBuilder and so forth—jobs on employer websites typically receive hardly any applications because job seekers simply do not know about them. Hound allows its members to be the first and only applicants to these jobs on employer websites.