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2022. JobGet raises $52M with ambitions to be the LinkedIn for shift workers



Startup called JobGet has raised $52 million in funding to fuel its ambitions to build a similar kind of go-to hub for a related but actually very different, sector of the labor market: waged or hourly workers. Built specifically for them, JobGet provides them with listings for jobs and an opportunity to connect with others doing similar work; access for recruiters to tap people for openings they might have; and down the line more tools such as training and development to help them along their own career ladders.


2021. Jobandtalent raises $500M to keep scaling its ‘workforce as a service’ marketplace



Spain’s Jobandtalent — a “workforce marketplace” and digital temping agency that uses AI to match workers to casual labor gigs in sectors like warehousing, e-commerce and logistics — has closed a $500 million Series E round. Currently, it offers a temporary labor service in nine markets globally — Spain, the U.K., Germany, France, Sweden, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia and the U.S. — matching workers looking for temp roles with employers in need of casual labor in (with a focus on sectors like manufacturing and logistics).

2020. LinkedIn adds polls and live video-based events in a focus on more virtual engagement



LinkedIn announced two new feature: a new Polls feature for users to canvas opinions and get feedback; and a new “LinkedIn Virtual Events” tool that lets people create and broadcast video events via its platform. Despite now being owned by Microsoft, interestingly it doesn’t seem that the Virtual Events service taps into Teams or Skype, Microsoft’s two other big video products that it has been pushing hard at a time when use of video streaming for work, education and play is going through the roof. The polls feature is a quick-fire and low-bar way of asking a question and encouraging engagement.


2016. Randstad buys recruitment portal Monster for $429M



Randstad Holdings, an Amsterdam-based human resources and recruitment company, to acquire job hunting portal Monster for $429 million. Monster will keep its brand and will operate as a separate entity, but the bigger idea here is to consolidate different aspects of the recruitment and employment industry for better economies of scale and a “portfolio of HR services,” in the words of Randstad. Jacques van den Broek, CEO of Randstad, said that Monster is a natural complement to Randstad. The transaction is aligned to bringing labor supply and demand closer together to better connect the right people to the right jobs.


2016. Jobandtalent gets $42M to mobilize hiring for SMEs



Jobandtalent, a startup touting its matching technology to automatically surface potential job candidates for employers (and vice versa), has closed a $42 million Series B round. It’s also transferred its attention from enterprise recruitment needs to SMEs where staff turnover is faster and there are more jobs in play. Arguably acceleratingly so as technology contributes to creating shorter term work gigs. After all ‘on-demand’ can imply temporary or even momentary need. The free-to-use hiring platform has a new business model too: opt-in staff management services where it can take care of recruitment and HR related admin for SMEs — from generating employment contracts to managing payroll to paying related taxes — charging a take rate from the hire’s payroll for this service (it’s experimenting with the exact percentage cut at present).


2015. Job site Glassdoor raises $70 million from Google and others



Glassdoor, the US most popular job site known for its anonymous employee reviews, has raised $70 million in funding to continue building out job search and recruiting tools for employees and employers. The latest round of funding was led by Tiger Global and Google Capital, Google's growth fund. Glassdoor was founded in 2007 and gained attention for its database of anonymous (and seemingly candid) employee reviews and company ratings. It has also developed a job search engine, recruiting tools for employees - which will likely be its key to growing revenue - and more recently invested in adapting its website and app for markets abroad.


2014. Job search site Monster partners with Twitter



The granddaddy of online job search sites Monster is introducing a new social recruiting solution that will crash Linkedin. Using insights gleaned from social networks (such as what conversations job prospects are engaged in, what they favorite, who they follow, retweet and so on) the made over Monster now automates putting the right opportunities in front of the right workers where they hangout online. This is in addition to Monster’s traditional capabilities. Monster also announced “Monster Social Ads,” which use Twitter’s Ads API to provide the first fully automated social recruiting job ad solution featuring additional new targeting from Monster’s proprietary social candidate search capabilities. Employers will soon — for the first time — have the ability to reach specific potential candidates directly on Twitter based on career attributes such as occupation or industry type.