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SimplyHired.com Celebrates Five Years of Online Job Search Innovation with "Dream Job" Contest for Job Seekers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
Simply Hired®, the leading search engine for jobs and recruitment advertising network, today celebrates its five year anniversary of helping job seekers find jobs they love. SimplyHired.com launched in March 2005, and currently indexes over five million job listings from company sites, job boards, newspapers, government agencies, non-profit organizations and other data sources.
Simply Hired reaches over 17 million users monthly, making it a top five job site. The company operates in 17 countries and nine languages on five continents. To reach job seekers in their daily activities, Simply Hired has built a recruitment advertising network powering jobs on 10,000 partner sites, including CNNMoney, BusinessWeek, LinkedIn, The Washington Post, Computerworld, Facebook (News - Alert) and Mashable. The company has raised $22M in funding.
"Finding a job is one of the most important decisions in life. Simply Hired's mission is to help people find jobs they love," said Gautam Godhwani, Simply Hired co-founder and CEO. "As far as we have come in the past five years, the job search experience will undergo dramatic changes during this time of unprecedented innovation in job search."
Future of Job Search
Simply Hired sees six key characteristics that will define job search in the future:
Comprehensive: Job seekers will access a comprehensive database of online, offline and "hidden" jobs that are not surfaced publicly. Simply Hired indexes five million jobs today, ten times the number available when it started. As more jobs come online, job databases will get larger.
Transparent: To make the best decision, job seekers will access "perfect information" about every facet of job search. Today, Simply Hired enables better information access with salary tools, local portals, job trends and company information.
Social: Job seekers will tap their professional and social affiliations online to search for jobs. Simply Hired's Who Do I Know?® feature enables referral hiring by surfacing candidate connections on social networks such as LinkedIn.
Personal: Jobs will be matched to an individual's specific skills, interests and preferences to surface the most relevant results. Simply Hired offers the deepest job search filters in the industry, including lifestyle filters such as "Eco-Friendly Companies" and "Telecommuter Jobs."
Efficient: Repetitive tasks and wasted effort will be minimized in the job search process. Simply Hired's 1-Click Apply™ technology can automate filling out job applications with a single click. Job alerts will deliver relevant jobs directly to job seekers on all platforms.
Mobile: The advent of mobile devices will integrate job search for access everywhere. Simply Hired has a mobile offering for users who would like to search for jobs on the go.
"What's Your Dream Job?" Apple (News - Alert) iPad Contest
To celebrate its fifth birthday, Simply Hired announces the "What's Your Dream Job?" contest. To enter, submit your dream job title in 140 characters or less in one of two ways:
Option 1: Enter the dream job title on the contest page
Option 2: Tweet the dream job title to @SimplyHired with #shdreamjob
(e.g. "@SimplyHired: Professional Island Caretaker #shdreamjob")
An Apple iPad will be awarded to the winners in the following categories:
Most Hilarious
Most Creative
Most Bizarre
Most "Green"
Most Noble
For more information, please visit our contest page.
About Simply Hired
With more than five million job listings worldwide, Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com) is the world's largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network. The company powers jobs on over 10,000 network partner sites such as LinkedIn, Plaxo, CNNMoney, BusinessWeek and The Washington Post. It operates global sites in 17 countries and nine languages on five continents. Simply Hired has been lauded as one of the "50 Coolest Websites" by Time magazine, a "Top 100 Website" by PC Magazine and the "Best of the Web" by BusinessWeek. Simply Hired has raised $22.3 million in funding from venture and individual investors including Foundation Capital, IDG Ventures and News Corporation. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.
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