The past 30 days has seen unprecedented acquisition activity in the online recruiting world. First it was SimplyHired, then Linkedin, then Jobr and now this. A job board company is buying an HCM provider. Last week Snagajob, the hourly job marketplace, acquired PeopleMatter, a provider of human capital management software also focused on managing hourly workforces….
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Acquisition Alert: JobsinLogistics.com Acquires Net-Temps
Breaking news: One of the oldest job boards in our industry has been acquired. JobsInLogistics.com, Inc. has announced the acquisition of the job board, www.net-temps.com [NetTemps.com]. Launched in 1995, NetTemps.com is a pioneer of the job board industry and is an eight-time winner of the prestigious Weddle’s Users Award for Best Job Board. With its…
Dice.com acquires onTargetjobs which owns Healthecareers, Hcareers and Biospace
Well guess who is $50 million dollars richer? The owners of onTargetjobs which run some of the biggest niche sites around. I first heard about this via Jonathan Duarte on Facebook. Here’s his post, here the press release link. They bought Rigzone a few years back so they are continuing their trend of buying up…
Job board acquisitions and the new year
So this is my last post for the year. My next will be on Jan 3rd or 4th. In the meantime think about 2013 and how you can make your job board better. Recently 2 very different job boards were acquired: Jobcircle and Behance. Jobcircle is a more traditional job board company. Behance is not.
Another job board gets bought (member only)
This week Jobcircle was acquired by Beyond.com. http://www.ere.net/2012/12/10/beyond-com-buys-jobcircle-will-grow-job-fair-business/ Jobcircle.com is a well established board that serves the mid-atlantic region around Philadelphia-Baltimore. In addition to their job postings they have some innovative services such as Rezrocket and Voiceblast (read about those here). I dont know how much they bought it for but I’d guess between 2x-3x…
One job board acquired, another one expands (free)
Well, finally some good news on the job board front. 6FigureJobs, the first ever $100k job board has been acquired by California based Callidus Software for an unknown sum. According to my sources, 6FigureJobs was in decline but still has a huge database of candidates that seems to be very valuable to Callidus. Read the…