Podcast: Matt Lucas Founder of JobMonkey.com

Matt Lucas is the co-founder and President of JobMonkey.com.  The website was launched in 1999 and has become the premier website for people looking for "Cool Jobs" in the United States or Abroad.

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Prior to JobMonkey, Lucas founded and ran a number of companies including a travel company, a college marketing company, a publishing company, and a company that sold suntan lotion out of real coconut shells.

Matt is also an active member of the Seattle startup community and has invested in and / or mentored over 30 Pacific Northwest startup companies.

Topics Include

• Tell us how you started Jobmonkey

• What is Jobmonkey...Give us the overview of site visitors, number of jobs, etc...

• Are you in the busy season now with summer here?

• What should recruiters know about recruiting this type of worker that would help them recruit better?

• What's a typical day like for you?

• Any advice for job seekers entering the seasonal/resort industry?

RecTech Insider for June

Greeting RecTechies. Here is a roundup of whats happening inside the world of recruitment technology. 

• SimplyHired Shutting Down. Links to various coverage across the web. [click here]
• Glassdoor raises 40 million in new "Series H" round of funding. Company now valued at $1 billion. Thats a big number for the employer review site. But they're going to need it to take on the likes of Indeed.  [click here]
• Take the Interview, the video interview platform based in NYC at TalentTech Labs announced last month they have secured $5 million in funding. [click here]
• TechCrunch Disrupt 2016: 6 Startups Transforming the Career and Hiring Industry. I'm not sure why they are calling these transformative. Yuemey seems to be the most interesting of the six. [click here]
• Recruit reported Indeed.com net sales jumped 60% to $696 million in the fiscal year. The company also owns job boards in Japan, including Rikunabi, a job board for new graduates. Investor Fred Wilson said in a blog post recently that they (indeed) is now vaued at 2-3X revenue which puts them around $2 billion. They were acquired for $1.4 billion.
• Reflektive is a ‘How do I keep people engaged?' platform which just raised $13million in funding. [click here]
• Humanyze, a people analytics technology company raises $4 million dollars in funding. Company based in Boston, funding by Romulus Capital. [click here]
• Technical recruiting platform Triplebyte, which has raised $3 million in funding, just launched its engineer genome project to foster software-driven, intelligent job-matching. [click here]
• It’s been just over a year since women’s job review startup Fairygodboss launched as an alternative to established career sites like Glassdoor and Indeed. In that time, the company has collected more than 22,000 reviews and tips about company culture and benefits submitted by women workers. [click here]
• Blendoor a mobile app, hides a candidate’s name, age, employment history, criminal background, and even their photo, so employers can focus on qualifications. Interviewing.io—currently in private beta—is an interviewing platform that is taking the concept of anonymizing one step further. Even the voices are masked. [click here]
• Après is a new job marketplace that is targeted toward moms who want to opt back into their careers. It will be a marketplace for both full- and part-time positions, consulting projects, maternity fill-in positions, and pro-bono opportunities across a wide range of industries. [click here]
• TalentPool a matching system software has received $427k in seed funding. Its investors include Stephen Warrington and Kingsley Duffy. 
• On-demand labor marketplace HireAthena officially launched out of stealth. HireAthena, which offers accounting, payroll and HR services, is a spinoff of BackOps and Scalus, and is backed by Sherpa Capital, Google Ventures, e.ventures, DCVC, Crunchfund and high-profile angel investors including Naval Ravikant, Max Levchin, and Mark Pincus. 
• UpScored launches job-matching platform for applicants and employers. [click here]
• Ratedly founder Joel Cheesman Interview on his new employer rating app. [click here]

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This is a RARE opportunity to not only get into the online recruiting space, but to buy a business with few direct competitors. It offers excellent expansion possibilities and comes with everything you need to run the business. The founders have done the hard work of building the foundation, all you have to do is take the baton, and keep running.

Some notable aspects of this sale include the following;

• You get additional country domains such as treasuryjobs.ca, treasuryjobs.co.uk, .br, and .in to aid a global expansion.
• You get a site that holds the #1 spot on all major search engines for the term treasury jobs.
• You get to work with some of the largest and most prestigious companies in the world.

So if this opportunity excites you please call 203-572-2053 or contact me to learn more. I can break down some additional details and get you started.

New Client: AviaNation.com

I just helped the team at AviaNation to replatform and relaunch their industry leading aviation job board. Online since 2002, the site was formerly a membership based site which charged job seekers a small monthly fee to get first crack at jobs. 

But over the years that business model had dwindled and their technology had gone stale. So I switched them to the Jobboard.io platform and we made the site pay per post for employers. Job seekers now can use it at no cost. 

I'll be acting as the sites marketing person going forward. If you need to find some aviation talent (pilots, flight attendants, mechanics), now you know where to go.

Lets Do This.

ITJobCafe Launches New Version

ITjobcafe is a popular niche site focused on helping employers recruit tech talent. Launched in 2008, the Atlanta based job board was found by Chand Akkineni. The site currently connects connects 100,000 + active Job seekers with 7000+ employers.

I asked Chand a few questions over email about his experience running an IT job board.

What inspired you to start the site?

At that time and even now, Portals like DICE, Monster, Careerbuilder were charging a lot of money for job posting and resume searches. We wanted to create an economical portal solution for small and medium enterprises.

How many resumes does the site have to search through?

Over 100,000 resumes and growing.

How are you different from Dice?

Subscribing employers can leverage our Job distribution network which is bigger than DICE’s organic DB. We distribute your jobs to 20 sites including Indeed and SimplyHired. We also give employers access to ITIQ  - our Skill assessment tool. We distribute a valuable newsletter fortnightly. We also offer skype integration.

What trends do you see happening in the IT market?

With low unemployment rate in IT, there will be a continued demand for resources/job seekers resulting in rates increase. I see more recruiters using social networkings sites as well. New technologies will continue to evolve thus creating a sustained demand for consulting into the foreseeable future.

What have you learned about IT recruiting since starting the site?

Since we started, we’ve seen the ups and downs of the job market. It’s finally back to where it was in 2007. More employers are relying upon third party recruiters/head hunters to fill their critical needs. Job seekers are now able to gather more information about potential employers. Both recruiters and job seekers have never been more empowered than they are today.

What are the main features you offer on the site?

• Distribution of your jobs to major job aggregators -

• Indeed.com, Simplyhired, ZipRecruiter and Social Networking Sites.

• Get Profiles matching your jobs within 10 sec.

• Get unlimited resume alerts in your inbox

• Profiles in ITJobCafe are mostly current and active

• Search our resume database free of cost

• Pay only after preview of the resume

• Communicate with the Job Seeker directly through skype integrated network from ITJobCafe.

• Attractive subscription packages to contact/download suitable resumes from $5

• Attractive premier job subscription packages ranging from $149

• Schedule tests to Job Seekers on IT Skills through a secure online test ITIQ for $10

The job board recently launched a new mobile friendly design. The enhanced platform will yield results for both job seekers and recruiters quickly and accurately thus saving time and money specially for hiring managers.

Another feather in the cap is the online skill assessment test – ITIQ. It is a unique service that will help assess candidate's’ skill levels in their area of IT expertise prior to being hired. This offers tremendous benefits to recruiters in terms of time and hiring costs. Candidates too can determine their skill level and present the score on their resume or during an interview or take action to improve.

What strikes me most as to why employers should use ITjobcafe is the job distribution. For $149 you pay one price for multiple sites. That is a tremendous value to any recruiting budget. You’d pay hundreds more in order to do that yourself. Sounds like a bargain to me :-)

Let me introduce your product to 10,000 Recruiters

Part of what I do as a consultant in the online recruiting industry is to raise awareness of my clients among recruiters and employers. Over the years I have amassed a strong network of followers who like what I share and write. I’ve also built several email lists and groups of recruiters that I can quickly get your name in front of. Think of me as your brand evangelist. I help both job boards and other types of recruiting tech companies who want to target recruiters and employers.

So I’m now offering a simple, affordable public relations product to do just that.

It’s called “PR Boost“.

Using my various channels and lists I will personally introduce your site/service to a minimum of 10,000 recruiters and HR professionals.

Your PR Boost starts with a custom written article which I’ll be publishing on my LinkedIn Pulse account. Like this this one I wrote for TaxJobs.

From there I will share it across various groups on Facebook and LI that target recruiters. Then I’ll email it to a variety of opt-in email lists which I’ve been curating for many years online.

All of this happens over the course of two weeks to maximize exposure and raise awareness of your brand.

Benefits of a service like this include;

• SEO boost: I will end up getting you several back links from related websites that will help increase your Google ranking.
• Traffic: My PR efforts will result in more quality, employer traffic coming to your landing page or site.
• Branding/Awareness: Introducing your name to a large group of recruiters/employers will help establish you in the marketplace. This is particularly useful for new vendors who are not well known yet.

So if you are ready to get started just contact me.