A reader tipped me off to a fascinating story about whats going on with the company that owns the .jobs TLD (top level domains). 15 years ago .jobs launched in partnership with SHRM to help employers put their jobs on a .jobs domain. That initiative never caught on so the registry owner Employ Media then…
Category: Industry News
Job board news and notes form the industry.
VC Firm Launches Its Own Job Board
Hack VC, an early-stage venture capital firm, has launched HackJobs.org. With an initial focus on software engineers, HackJobs.org aims to match job seekers with fast growing venture-backed startups. I think a job board is an excellent use case for a VC firm that has invested in 175 startups. It makes sense to help their startups find…
Space Jobs – the Job Board
Space Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the Space economy, today announced the official launch of Space Talent (www.spacetalent.org), an online portal for careers in the space industry and its broader ecosystem. According to their press release; “Space Talent addresses a critical need in the industry right now and is a top priority…
Circa: the Interview
LocalJobNetwork, a company which owns 600+ local job sites recently rebranded to “Circa” (circaworks.com) and I sat down with their CEO Patrick Sheahan for an interview. Check it;
San Francisco Based Joblist is the new kid on the block
Joblist, a job search platform that personalizes the process of finding and landing a job, has launched publicly to address the needs of the millions of Americans facing historic unemployment. They offer some new matching technology and procure jobs from aggregation. The company emailed me a press release last week and says; The platform surfaces AI-driven job…
Indeed’s Capture & Kill Acquisition Strategy
Back in the 2000’s when I ran my local job board network I was constantly worried about competitors and how they were doing. As time passed, some of them went dark or folded and that’s when I pounced on the opportunity to buy their old domains/assets and redirect them to my own site. I reveled…
New Job Board Launches for Sales, Beverage Industries
TitanHouse today announced the launch of its cutting-edge platform for matching: Tech-focused employers with the right sales candidates Tech-focused sales professionals with their most compatible career opportunities The site uses rich, sales-centric data and proprietary technology to make the best possible career matches. Their process drives tremendous transparency and efficiency to the sales recruiting process….
LocalJobNetwork Rebrands as Circa
LocalJobNetwork™, a company which operates 600+ local job boards has announced a rebrand as Circa. The company also just acquired America’s Job Bank in a new deal. The company’s research shows that employers are shifting from diversity as a program to diversity as a business strategy. This repositioning better aligns its products and solutions to…
Job Board News Bytes
DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) today announced that ClearanceJobs, the leading career marketplace for professionals with security clearances, has released Workflow, a product feature that allows recruiters to pre-program processes throughout the talent acquisition lifecycle, saving them time on typically tedious recruiting tasks. In the world of cleared candidate sourcing, time is money, and top candidates…
BankTalentHQ Inks Partnership with America’s Job Exchange
This is a good strategy for an upsell product to employers. Jobs posted on BTHQ will be filtered to the diversity network on AJE. -CR BankTalentHQ is dedicated to connecting talent in the financial services industry, and we are excited to announce our latest partnership with America’s Job Exchange (AJE) to make connecting even easier…