JobLoft Purses Job Niche

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.