JobLoft.com Carves Out Niche
June 13, 2006 by Mark Evans
Filed under Business
The Toronto Star’s Tyler Hamilton had an interesting column earlier this week looking at the online job-hunting market. One of the companies he highlighted is JobLoft.com, which helps people find full-time, part-time and seasons positions in the retail, food services and hospitality sectors. The company, started by four students at Ryerson University, is pretty innovative because it aggregates available jobs provided by companies such as Blockbuster and HMV with Google’s Map service. This means you can search by region, which is ideal for younger people looking for part-time work close to where they live or go to school. Rick Segal had a post recently on how he got an e-mail from Jobloft co-founder Chris Nguyen about what the company was doing that was polite and low-key. It may not lead to J.L. Albright Partners providing Jobloft with financing but they’ll definitely get a meeting.
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This space is getting interesting in Canada, with wowjobs.com and eluta.ca also entering the vertical job search market. Wowjobs has a few more jobs, but Eluta is technically a little more interesting.
I think wowjobs.ca has way more jobs than eluta. Eluta is a good site, but it’s pretty incomplete content wise. just search for jobs in, say Java.
wowjobs returns over 1700 jobs while eluta has fewer than 250.
Most of the jobs on Wowjobs.ca are from Workopolis and are agency jobs. Eluta.ca has the direct employer ones. Another source is http://canada.indeed.com. They have about 1600 matching Gloria’s search, but few are direct from employers. Not sure how Eluta.ca does it, but they give results nobody else has.
Interesting comments…I think eluta is a good concept, but it needs to execute in a better way. Some of the jobs there are way older than the dates shown on eluta. There are jobs upto 2 months old and they show up as 2 weeks old. I tried Gloria’s search and there were fewer than 200 results. Most of these were from CGI, RIM and CIBC. There are a handful of jobs that eluta has and wowjobs or indeed don’t.
I think the real winner will be the site that provides it all, handles duplicates nicely and really markets itself well.
And while this is going on…majority of Canadians still go to workopolis and monster :)