Seattle based Jobster will announce the acquisition of brand new startup Jobby on Wednesday morning. Terms are not being disclosed.
I profiled Jobby when it entered it’s beta in late March. Unlike Indeed and Simply Hired, which aggregate job listing from other sites, Jobby takes resume information directly from Job Seekers and then invites employers to search through listings. Jobby also allows employers to search for highly specific skillsets and subscribe to future results via RSS. I gave Jobby a thumbs up: the Ajax interface for filling in skill/resume information, along with the excellent search features results in a really cool user experience. It will be interesting to see how Jobster integrates Jobby into its existing solutions.
Jobster has raised over $20 million in venture capital. Investors include Trinity Ventures, Ignition Partners and Mayfield.
We’re jazzed to be joining the Jobster team. Brian and I had two days of nonstop meetings with these guys and I can truly say that there are amazing things being done there.
See you in Seattle!
Oh dear. I hope this is a non-UK service.
“Jobby” has a very different meaning over here, as evidenced by http://www.urba....php?term=Jobby
Watch out for these globalisation issues in future, boys and girls!
Yes, it’s one of the fine side effects of getting acquired.
I imagine the name will be deprecated.
Google means “old dog” in Chinese, so we’re not the only ones who fell victim to cultural ignorance.
That really gives it a different meaning altogether
BTW, here’s another one that is unintelligent – Yokel.com
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I had forgotten about all the “what Jobby means in Scotland” thing. Funny. There were a lot of comments about it on the original post. http://www.tech...iment/#comments.
Any company that can take down an old school, bloated behemoth like Workopolis will garner much respect.
It’s very unfortunate that none of these next-generation job search services are available or have much of an impact in Canada at the moment. We’re sorely lacking in a solid, user-friendly app like the U.S. folks can use.
Good jobby. Perhaps the merged entity can be called JobJobby?
Two months? My god.
I can almost feel the bubble bursting all over again.
Like Geof I also really like the idea of sites like Jobby taking on sites like Workopolis and Monster, but not just because its old and bloated (which I too respect), but because the fundamental difference in their objectives (Jobby putting search in the hands of recruiters, versus Workopolis putting search in the hands of applicants and job-seekers) stands to make a fundamental difference in the way the recruiting market works. And though I wont deny that they’re both very important in the space, having recruiters search for what they want can really make things a lot more efficient.
I was speaking to VC a few days ago about whether the bubble is coming back again with the acquisition of all these web 2.0 companies which are too young to be profitable.
The thing is, the acquirers do not see the companies they buy as profitable on their own; but will create synergy by enlarging the mother company’s user base.
Great for Jobby to join a larger company with real resources (and apologies for not following up on your note Tony
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Jobby was complementary to Jobster, so it is a move that makes sense. Nothing bubble-esque in there at all, quite the contrary actually.
Look forward to seeing you at or around Gnomedex.
In Europe a Danish company has started a similar service in Denmark (jobindex.dk), successfully spread it under the “jobsafari” label to Sweden (jobsafari.se), Norway (jobsafari.no), and Finland (jobsafari.fi) with Stockholm-quoted Eniro – as well as in the Netherlands (jobsafari.nl) – They are now trying in France, Spain, Germany, Austria, the UK and Switzerland.
(jobsafari.fr, jobsafari.es, etc.)
http://www.jobs....uk/about.shtml
I’m Scottish. Guess why I’m here
Gave me the best laugh of the weekend