Jobster

Jobster is a career development website.

Features

Jobster makes extensive use of Web 2.0 technologies to help jobseekers search job postings on Jobster.com as well as job boards from across the web and employer sites; explore user-generated content about companies and their culture and use social networking to connect with current and past employees at the companies the user is interested. [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/02/01/8398993/index.htm?postversion=2007021405 - Business 2.0] Features include:
*Professional profiles. Jobster users create dynamic online profiles containing information about employment and educational history. Jobster profiles are optimized by search engines enabling increased profile visibility.
*Superstar Tags. Users tag themselves much like users of Flickr or YouTube tag pictures or video, but with Jobster, users use as tags key attributes that represent their skills and background. Jobster introduced scarcity to tagging by limiting a user’s key tags to five, which can then be stack-ranked by the user to highlight the five most important attributes based upon which they want to be found.
*Video Profiles. Users can add video resumes or other related video to their profiles; initially by embedding videos hosted on YouTube. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1592860,00.html - Time Magazine]

Jobster provides recruiting tools and subscription contact management services for employers:

*Free Job Postings. In early 2007, Jobster made posting a job on Jobster free. Each job is tagged with key candidate attributes and populates a list candidate matches in real time when posted.
*Premium Hiring Tools. Jobster charges employers for use of premium hiring tools that extend the reach of employers hiring efforts

Company Info

Jobster was founded in February 2004 by Jason Goldberg and Phillip Bogle. It is located in Seattle, Washington and is backed by the investors Ignition Partners, Trinity Ventures, Mayfield Fund and Reed Elsevier Ventures. Jobster makes money through its targeted job advertising services for employers.

Acquisition History

In August 2005 Jobster acquired WorkZoo.com, a job meta-search engine founded by Mark Maunder, which was integrated into Jobster's home page. In May 2006, Jobster acquired GoJobby.com founded by Tony Wright and Brian Fioca. In June 2006, Jobster acquired Recruiting.com run by Jason Davis. Jobster have since relaunched Recruiting.com as a Digg-like recruiting portal. In January 2007, Jobster became the exclusive job search partner for Facebook and hosts the Career Center on Facebook.com.

ee also

* Social network
* Business network
* Social software
* Web 2.0
* Vertical search

References

External links

* [http://jobgeni.com JobGeni.com - Realtime Vertical Job Search Spider that aggregates the best job boards on the web.]
* [http://jobspeedy.de Jobspeedy.de]
* [http://www.jobster.com Jobster.com]
* [http://www.jobster.com/corp/companyinfo.jsp About Jobster]
* [http://www.jobster.com/corp/pressreldetail.jsp?id=workzoo2 Jobster acquires WorkZoo.com]
* [http://www.jobster.com/corp/pressreldetail.jsp?id=20060608_recruiterdotcom Jobster acquires Recruiting.com]
* [http://www.jobster.com/corp/pressreldetail.jsp?id=20060524_gojobby Jobster acquires GoJobby.com]
* [http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=jobster04&date=20070104&query=jobster+layoffs Jobster job cuts: 60 of 145 laid off] - Seattle Times article
* [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/07/jobster-gets-serious-about-killing-monstercom/ Jobster Attacks the Monster] - TechCrunch