Job board news and notes form the industry.
Two job boards received funding last week and one of them just became a unicorn. First is RoleBot, it bills itself as AI-powered job board for top-tier, passive talent. It got 4.5 million in seed funding. Rolebot’s AI finds the most promising talent likely to look for a new opportunity by creating an ideal look-alike…
Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL3, LLC) announced an investment in Honest Jobs, a leading national job platform focusing on fair chance employment which launched back in 2019. The investment amounts to $1.5M seed financing round. The mission of Honest Jobs is to help people impacted by the criminal justice system find employment fast. The company was…
A new global job board just launched with jobs and services around wave pools. Wavepooljobs.com is free for job seekers while employers can publish for a small fee. It is powered by Niceboard. “This new tool will help project owners recruit experienced people from all over the world or even find investors and other services related to wave pools. It’s free for…
The team at Techgen Media Group, a magazine publishing company that produces various titles that serve the manufacturing industry, announced the launch of abbe.com, a website dedicated entirely to careers in manufacturing. The site will serve as a place where job seekers can find good-paying careers and where employers can find motivated staff. “Not an issue of…
DiversityJobs powered by Circa announced a newly designed job board that makes it easier for job seekers and employers who embrace diversity to connect. DiversityJobs has a community of sites targeting active job seekers to bring the right candidate directly to employers. This includes dedicated niche sites and smart technology to find candidates that match the…
Interesting data here for job board operators. Big rises in CPA and CPC rates. Appcast, the global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising technology and services, today unveiled the findings of its sixth annual “Recruitment Marketing Benchmark Report.” The report examines 2021 job ad data – 165 million job ad clicks and 8 million applies – from nearly…
Dante Lee, the owner of BlackJobs.com has launched a Toronto city job board. “Lee has launched TorontoJobs.com dedicated to helping local employers connect with qualified diverse job candidates in the Greater Toronto area. Lee believes his latest project will be a game-changer and help the city to resolve its problem with diversity, equity, and inclusion…
Check this out: Otta is a platform for matching jobs at tech companies with candidates by aggregating a lot of information about the company (founder bios, employee reviews, salaries, industry) with the roles offered. Think a sort of “CrunchBase for Jobs”. One of the investors is Paul Forster co-founder of Indeed. They launched in 2020…
Jobs4Days.com is pleased to announce the acquisition of domains in the Armature and Electric Motor Repair Industry. The new domains are: ArmatureJobs.com, ElectricMotorRepairJobs.com, PumpRepairJobs.com, ElectricalApparatusJobs.com & MotorRewinderJobs.com. The leading online job career search portal aims to reduce unemployment and make job search easy. With these new acquisitions, the company will help the individual domains establish themselves and eventually become singular,…
Zip recruiter Publishing is warning job boards to step up their traffic game else risk being ousted from its partner network. The message below was sent out recently. Zip has been quiet lately on the publisher front, they don’t seem to be pushing it all now that their main site is so well known. I…