Hcareers Snaps Up JobLoft.com
Chris · November 22, 2007
Since its inception almost ten years ago, Hcareers continues to be one of the most visited hospitality job boards online.
For the most part, Hcareers’ focus (and success) has been on recruiting for management positions. The cost per posting is simply too high for most organizations to consider Hcareers when recruiting individual entry-level hospitality positions. Further, many hotels have begun posting available jobs on their own websites.
Earlier this month Hcareers’ parent company, onTargetjobs, announced that it has acquired the assets of JobLoft.com, an interesting new hospitality and retail job board located in Toronto. Jobloft’s job search strategy is based on locational searches by postal code. Canadian job results within the specified geographic area are fed along with a map of the job location.
Jobloft has generated much buzz about their technology and the quality of their member employers, however, penetration in the Canadian hospitality sector remained quite low.
All that’s going to change now that Hcareers has purchased JobLoft, and apparently the focus with this partnership is going to be front-line and non-management positions. There is no word yet on the actual cost for posting hospitality gigs on JobLoft, but I’ve heard that the standard $469 per posting on Hcareers will be cut in half.
This is terrific news for many hospitality organizations looking for more affordable recruitment options.
Congrats to the team at JobLoft--recent Ryerson University grads who developed an interesting job site!
