Job Sprout
If you follow me on Twitter, you will know that I’m quite keen on retweeting or passing on job opportunities. For obvious reasons, one of them being the fact that I better than anyone know how tough the job market was. So, I was keen to learn more about JobSprout. I asked the founder of Job Sprout a few questions about the company, which he kindly answered below. Thanks for the interview, Mike!
What is Job Sprout
Job Sprout is a modern job board that eliminates the headaches of a traditional job board. From a job seeker’s perspective, the site is clutter free, has easy-on-the-eyes formatting, and is easy to use. Job Sprout differs from traditional sites that make you click several links, only to leave you disappointed by the presentation. Our end goal is to make posting and finding a job simple, stress free, and most important, intuitive.
Most job boards do not represent employers. When you have a multi-million dollar company, the last thing you want to do is have a job board presenting your vacant position in size 9 font, has alignment issues, and inconsistent paragraph spacing. As an employer, you want a job board that represents the professionalism that has made you successful. If you want quality users and applicants, build a platform and community that believes that. If you build it, they will come.
We have so many other job-seeking sites out there (Monster, Work Cabin for enviro jobs, etc.) – what makes Job Sprout unique?
Job Sprout slaps you in the face with how intuitive it is. When you land on our site, you are presented with active jobs. All jobs will expire within 30 days of the post date and we limit the amount of job posting at any given time. By taking this approach, your job posting will not be a needle in a haystack. We don’t want to mislead our users. It is stressful enough for job seekers to find a job, so we try hard to eliminate all the headaches that come along with job hunting. Job Sprout focuses and innovates on the basics. Basics don’t change.
You will only find career-worthy type jobs on our site. Not to say that part-time or contract jobs are bad, but we’re committed to providing quality careers for our users. We are hearing from employers that many qualified people are applying for their jobs. I genuinely believe that’s due to the clearly defined rules we’ve created, leading to a quality community. This makes your target demographic willing to visit and explore.
For job seekers it must be challenging to get new gigs, alerts for jobs and so on – is it free for job seekers (you may have already responded this earlier)
We don’t charge users to view jobs and it will stay that way.
Why did you start Job Sprout (e.g. what’s your motivation behind the site)?
My business partner Ann Lee (@beipas) and I own a software company (Venture Cubes) and our philosophy is to build powerful but simple applications for our clients. We love the challenge of taking huge amounts of data and presenting it in a simple way. Attention to detail is very important, from how a user should feel when they land on the site, to font type and size. User experience is a huge factor to our success. We want to be part of the change and help make our community stronger by changing the way we hire, and the way we look for jobs.
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