Fresh off a round of funding, The Muse a job site/employer branding company, has acquired the largest career community for women, FairyGodBoss. This acquisition combines the largest online career community for Gen Z and millennial candidates with the largest online career community for women, to create a new “powerhouse in the next-gen hiring space” according…
Adzuna, the smarter job search engine, is pleased to announce the acquisition of leading US enterprise job search engine Getwork. The Getwork team, led by President Brad Squibb, will work alongside the 100-person strong Adzuna business, bringing together decades of job search expertise and accelerating Adzuna’s growth in North America. The acquisition will combine the quality…
CareerBeacon a regional job board that serves the Atlantic part of Canada (i.e. New Foundland) has been acquired by Alongside, a Moncton-based human resource technology company. The news comes from the Recruitment Flex podcast. Listen to the news below. You can also read about it on the CareerBeacon site here. Alongside has plans to expand…
Harris, a global vertical market software provider and acquirer, has joined the online recruitment space with the acquisition of Quebec-based employment website, Jobillico. With over 3 million users in Canada, Jobillico supports a network of over 5,000 employers in recruiting top talent using a digital platform that is largely developed and maintained by its Québec City…
Job boards are big in Europe and there’s been a little feeding frenzy lately, specifically with two startup job boards. Adzuna Acquires Work in Startups. “Adzuna has acquired the number one UK tech startup job board Work In Startups! This is another important step towards Adzuna’s goal of helping to match people to better, more fulfilling jobs…
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…
There were a couple of interesting items in the news this week. A trucking job board got acquired and a big job site gets a refresh. First up the trucking site news via press release. TransForce, Inc., the nation’s leading workforce management solutions firm specializing in commercial truck drivers, has acquired the assets of Trucking…
Jobboard.io, the popular job board software platform started by Christian Malpeli more than 5 years ago has been acquired by ZipRecruiter. The news came via email to JobBoard.io clients yesterday. Terms of the deal are not disclosed. I was able to reach both ZipRecruiter and Christian Malpeli, for comment on the news. What are the…
Last week my career advice site sold at auction on Flippa for $30k. After 5 years it was time to move on from CareerCloud. I originally started the site as a social resume platform, but that never took off so I pivoted the site a few years ago to be more about career advice. Eventually I added…
Back in June Monster.com bought a job search app called Jobr. At the time the purchase price was not released. I have recently learned that they paid $12.5 million dollars. The info comes from this press release put out by their largest shareholder. (I’ll be writing more about that later)… In any case, thats a…