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…
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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 Site Launches for Filmmaking Jobs
IndustryJump is a new career marketplace that brings together filmmaker/video professionals with employers that want to hire them. In addition they will also allow for payment transactions. The site will launch a program for “guaranteed payment and also provide its users with services such as automated bookkeeping and 1099 reporting.” It’s nice to see a next…
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….
Instagram for Your Job Board
There aren’t many job boards on Instagram, but if you know how to use it properly it can pay off from a branding standpoint and perhaps some traffic. MinnesotaJobs.com actually does a great job of marketing their jobs on Insta so I am going to use them as the example you should follow. It takes…
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…
Dice Owner Sells Off Hcareers Job Board
DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) the parent company of tech job board Dice.com, has sold its hospitality job board, Hcareers, to Virgil Holdings, Inc. for approximately $16.5 million in cash. The transaction closed today and DHI will use the proceeds in accordance with its stated capital allocation strategy, including the “reduction of the balance on its revolving credit facility,…
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…
Facebook Group Warnings
Facebook is cracking down on posting to groups. Be careful to avoid being temporarily banned. I received this message from a reader the other day I posted job offer on a few Facebook groups (16) yesterday and today and Facebook blocked me. Do you have also this issue, i don’t feel that 16 is a…