SnagAJob.com

Infobox_Company
company_name = SnagAJob.com
company_type = Private
foundation = 1999
location = Richmond, Virginia, United States
industry = Job Search Engine
homepage = [http://www.snagajob.com/ www.snagajob.com]

Company profile

SnagAJob.com is a job search engine and resource that focuses entirely on part-time and hourly jobs.

Because of SnagAJob.com’s niche focus – it boasts more than 100,000 job postings at any one time and more than 130 million annual job seeker-generated searches - the company stakes a claim as the #1 source for hourly and part-time jobs. [ [http://www.snagajob.com/aboutus.aspx About SnagAJob.com - The Number 1 Source for Hourly Jobs ] ]

The company offers jobs from the following industries: retail, hospitality, health care, restaurant, service and more. Some employers who are clients of SnagAJob.com include 7-Eleven, Kohl's, Home Depot and Boston Market. Users include teens, working mothers, students, seniors getting back into the workforce and everyone in-between.

Company history in brief

SnagAJob.com is headquartered in Richmond, VA and was founded in 1999 by Shawn Boyer, who serves as president and CEO of the company.

In the summer of 2006, SnagAJob.com received $9 million in financing from Adams Street Partners, Baird Venture Partners and C&B Capital. The company is using the funding to expand all aspects of its operation. [ [http://www.americanventuremagazine.com/news.php?newsid=1347 SnagAJob.com receives $9 millions series A in Preferred Stock financing - 2006-08-04 10:31:07 | Venture Capital News ] ]

In 2007, SnagAJob.com acquired naming rights for the concert pavilion at Innsbrook Afterhours, Central Virginia’s longest running mid-week concert series. It is now called SnagAJob.com Pavilion. Also in 2007, SnagAJob.com was awarded the IMPACT Award by The Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce. The award recognizes a company's growth, culture and community impact. The company was also named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Virginia and won the Greater Richmond Technology Council's Emerging Company Award [ [http://www.snagajob.com/aboutus.aspx About SnagAJob.com - The Number 1 Source for Hourly Jobs ] ] .

At the U.S. Small Business Administration's celebration of National Small Business Week 2008 on April 22, 2008, Shawn Boyer was selected as the National Small Business Person of the Year. [ [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-22-2008/0004797957&EDATE Online Job Search Company from Virginia is National Small Business of the Year ] ] At the awards ceremony, SBA Administrator Steve Preston said, "Shawn Boyer is a perfect example of the creativity and inspiration it takes to become a highly successful entrepreneur in America today. He identified an unmet need and filled it, and today, barely eight years later, his company, SnagAJob.com, has become a hugely successful site for posting and finding hourly and part-time jobs, connecting millions of registered job seekers with active job postings."

In June of 2008, the company launched it's own collection of free e-cards designed for America's workforce called Afterthoughts [ [http://www.afterthoughts.snagajob.com Afterthoughts: SnagAJob.com's collection of e-cards ] ] . Users can customize the cards themselves, or use a text generator to insert funny phrases and send them to friends and coworkers.

On June 23, 2008, SnagAJob.com was named one of the 50 Best Small Companies to Work For in America by the Great Place to Work Institute at the Society for Human Resource Management's Conference and Exposition [ [http://www.snagajob.com/press/2008_06_23_08.aspx SnagAJob.com honored nationally as a Great Place to Work ] ] . The annual list ranks the top 25 small and top 25 medium-sized companies in the United States that can boast extreme employee satisfaction and the highest levels of trust between employees and management. SnagAJob.com was ranked in the top three on the list of the 25 Best Small Companies to Work For list [ [http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best/list-sme-2008.htm List of the Best Small and Medium Companies to Work For in America by the Great Place to Work Institute ] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.SnagAJob.com/ SnagAJob.com official site]
* [http://www.campaigntohireamerica.com/ Campaign to Hire America]
* [http://www.snagablog.com/ SnagABlog.com job search advice blog]
* [http://www.Afterthoughts.SnagAJob.com Afterthoughts e-cards]

News and media

* [http://www.forbes.com/leadership/2007/10/01/jobs-recruitment-hourly-lead-careers-cx_mk_1001snag_slide.html Forbes.com: "Top-searched 'snags'"]
* [http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/entry/184562.html Entrepreneur.com: "Survey Names Most Annoying Co-Worker"]
* [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/its-not-too-late-find/story.aspx?guid=%7B13CF7241-4A96-4FFE-AA2C-CBE2C5E7E1C0%7D MarketWatch: "Not too late to find summer jobs"]
* [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B68D73602-B5E2-4AFF-A33E-E036B9039B70%7D Marketwatch.com: "Courier, 88, among nation's top hourly workers"]
* [http://www.nypost.com/seven/10302006/atwork/by_the_wage_atwork_chris_erikson.htm The New York Post: "Top Clock Punchers Honored" (SnagAJob.com "America's No. 1 Hourly Worker" Contest)]
* [http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-03-02-bill-rancic-promotion_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA USA Today: "'Apprentice' Rancic lands part-time job"]