Well, Google for Jobs has conquered North America and now heads across the pond to the UK. The announcement was made Monday on the Google blog. Starting today, when you search for “jobs near me,” “teaching jobs,” or similar queries in English in the U.K., you’ll have the option to click through to a feature…
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Are Niche job apps the new thing?
Came across a new niche job board…sort of…last week. Capango is a new retail job mobile app only. It’s kind of like tinder for retail jobs. Swipe right and the employer gets notified of your interest. It was made by a company called Natural Insight that already produces cloud software for retailers so a job…
Social network for college students and a Blockchain Job Launch
UpBreeze, a leading social-professional platform for college and university students, today announced the launch of JobBot, its latest innovation that empowers students to apply for jobs and internships within seconds, significantly faster than before. For more info go to www.upbreeze.com/news/2018/JobBot_Launch. Powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, JobBot presents to the student a wide variety of…
What job boards sell for
Last week I was able to identify how much revenue Glassdoor has based on an internal PDF from its new owner Recruit. According to them, GD sales hit $171 million in 2018. With a sell price of $1.2 billion that gives them a valuation of about 7X annual revenue. 7X is on the higher end of acquisitions…
Indiana job site gets $9 million in new funding
Ascend Indiana, a nascent initiative to address the talent gap in the Hoosier state is ramping up its operations. The group is an offshoot of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, has raised $9 million so far to support its work and is “partnering with Indiana companies to create specific talent pipelines to fill shortages in critical…
New Launch: SteelToeJobs
Steel Toe Jobs, a Vancouver based Startup specializing in Construction Careers, released its new website – Steeltoejobs.com. It is powered by CareerLeaf. In November of 2017 Steeltoejobs.com went live with its beta site, a job board and content source for local job seekers. In addition, they met with local Employers, Employment Services Groups, Trade Schools,…
Job board refresh, new product launch
Last week saw a couple of established job board players do something new. First, the .jobs people out of Cleveland have refreshed the long-standing dot job domains to reflect their new national brand, Find.jobs. At least some of the backfill comes from Jobs2Careers. According to the press release; .Jobs launched their new job seeker audience targeting platform….
Instant Lead Generation: Indeed Buys Resume.com
In yet another move by the brass at Indeed, they moved this week to acquire Resume.com. Their appetite for users and traffic is showing no signs of slowing down. Acquiring a resume site is a smart move, one that positions them for instant lead generation on the seeker side of things. As Indeed hunkers down in…
These Next Gen Job Boards Target Restaurant/Shift Workers
There are a number of what I would call next generation job boards gaining ground in online hiring. Wonolo and Seasoned.co are both web site /app companies that let companies hire on demand. I spoke with one of the cofounder of Wonolo on my RecTech Podcast recently. What’s interesting about their model is how they…
How Much Monthly Google Traffic Can You Get?
Now that Google Jobs has been up and running for about a year I thought I would share some stats around how much traffic it actually generates on a monthly basis. Below is a screenshot of Analytics from a small board I run called Jobs With Remote. It has about 800-900 jobs on it at…