BOLD Holdings, a prominent player in the career services sector, has strategically expanded its footprint through a series of targeted acquisitions, culminating in the recent high-profile purchase of CareerBuilder and Monster’s job board assets. This move underscores BOLD’s long-term vision to consolidate market share, harness legacy brand recognition, and integrate these platforms into its existing,…
New York based The Muse has acquired a site called Purpose Jobs. Founded in 2017 in Detroit, Purpose Jobs (www.purpose.jobs) is the largest startup and tech community in the Midwest. Purpose Jobs partners with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 2000 enterprises and state and local governments, helping them humanize their employer brand and tell their…
Diversity is perhaps the hottest sector in online recruitment right now. WayUp which rebranded itself into a DE&I sourcing platform was just acquired by Yello and now Circa has snapped up DiversityJobs.com owned by LatPro Inc. … press release below. MILWAUKEE – Today, Infosoft Group, LLC, dba Circa, announced the purchase of Colorado-based LatPro, Inc., dba…
BioSpace, the leading source for careers and news for life sciences professionals announced it has acquired MedReps, the leading job site for medical sales positions. The acquisition strengthens the Company’s position as the leader in online recruitment for the life sciences industry. No financial terms were announced. “The acquisition of MedReps extends our capabilities and further…
VA Claims Insider, LLC, a Texas-based service-disabled-veteran-owned business, whose Vision is to become “The most trusted name in education-based resources for veterans,” announced the acquisition of Wyoming-based HireVeterans.com, a free website that connects veterans with new career opportunities with America’s top military and veteran employers. Terms of the deal were not made public. HireVeterans is…
Back in the 2000’s when I ran my local job board network I was constantly worried about competitors and how they were doing. As time passed, some of them went dark or folded and that’s when I pounced on the opportunity to buy their old domains/assets and redirect them to my own site. I reveled…
While at the HR Tech show last week I came across a bit of surprising news. A big applicant tracking vendor bought a job board company. Cornerstone acquired Santa Monica based Workpop for an undisclosed amount and plans to roll it up into a new product line called ‘Cornerstone Frontline’. To be fair, Workpop is more…
News broke this morning via press release that Indeed’s parent company, Recruiting Holdings has acquired Canada’s top job board Workopolis. The release was short and sweet; TOKYO & TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. announced today that it will acquire the website and assets of Canadian job site, Workopolis.com through one of its group companies. Indeed,…
Initial reports that CareerBuilder was going to be bought for 1 billion were debunked last week when a private equity group and a teachers pension fund, bought a majority stake in the company. According to an ERE report, the deal values the company around $500 million. Thats about $71 million more than what Monster recently…
With 2017 comes the news of the first job board acquisition of the year. AuthenticJobs, a popular tech job board since 2005, has been acquired by BuySellAds, an advertising technology firm. BuySellAds was also a client, apparently having used the site to build its tech team. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. BSA’s CEO…