Over the weekend I saw on Techcrunch that a new job site for startups in the US was launched, Startuply. There are a few of interesting things here. Firstly it is not really a new site more a re-launch of Jowba, secondly they have taken funding and support from Y Combinator, finally they have a very nice user interface making job search easy.
A few of the user interface features I liked:
- Roll over job ads, no need to click on the ad to get a summary
- Pictures from the company
- Maps of the company locations
- Company profile pages
- Searching by funding, with maps
- Searching by company size
- Very simple job application process
- Job widgets to allow companies to have jobs posted on their site
While not all of the features are suitable for all types of job boards and some are just “neat” it doesn’t stop the fact that some Australian job boards could learn a few things on how to build a innovative user interface.
Finally the site is free to post jobs so I am not sure how they are going to make money, but I am sure there is a plan.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Thomas Shaw // Jul 21, 2008 at 10:12 am
It looks like they are using jobberbase.com
2 Luke G // Jul 21, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Ha Thomas, almost. We get enough grief as it is for using asp.net.
Thanks for the post, Michael!
3 Michael Specht // Jul 22, 2008 at 8:57 am
@Luke G no worries I wish you guys luck
@Thomas it does look like they are using jobberbase doesn’t it, maybe I should start a job board
4 Thomas Shaw // Jul 22, 2008 at 12:55 pm
jobberbase is still quite young (+ many errors) hopefully the development will grow and it will be a great product.
Luke - love the site.
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