profile updated Dec 23, 2008, 1:51 PM
The company name - one of those creative Internet naming derivatives - is meant to invoke the colloquial "jibe," meaning "in harmony." We think another colloquial might have worked just as well: "No jive."
Jiibe does both equally well, cutting through those feel-good corporate expressions of culture to identify how a company really operates. Jiibe says its mission is "to help people and companies design better places to work and help people make better decisions that result in happier lives."
It does this with two products:
- Diialog, which is a 360 sort of corporate assessment completed by a company's employees. It produces a profile of the culture and environment its employees experience as well as producing a composite portrait of the workplace they desire.
- Jiibe.com, a self-assessment tool that helps individuals discover the kind of culture and work environment that best fits them and then matches them against suitable companies.
Both Diialog and Jiibe ask the employees questions across 10 strategic factors, compiling the data in real time and then delivering a portrait of the culture that is and the culture the individual would prefer.
For jobseekers, Jiibe matches them to companies that most closely have the workplace environment they want. Diialog gives company leaders and workers a look at how well the actual culture matches the workplace they want.
The value for a company in performing this psychoanalysis, according to Jiibe Solutions is that those "willing to be this open and engage their employees are the ones that are most able to quickly adapt to a very dynamic and competitive marketplace."
The founders have years of experience in the recruitment field. Greg Scott founded an early online ATS company (Vision2Hire.com) which he sold in 2004 to Canadian IT staffing and recruiting firm Brainhunter Inc. A serial entrepreneur, he founded and ran a theatrical production company in Las Vegas, before launching Jiibe Solutions.
His partner, Stephen Race, is an occupational psychologist with a decade of experience working on recruiting assessments and issues of cultural "fit."
The challenge for Jiibe Solutions is the same every user-dependent Web 2.0 site has: Getting a large enough number of employees to participate to make the results statistically meaningful.
Thus Diialog, which is an internal tool for a company, produces valuable information. Jiibe, on the other hand, still has too few participants to be more than an interesting resource.
But we sure like the concept: match users to the kind of work environment that best suits their personality.
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Jiibe
Jiibe is a job matching site that seeks the best fit between jobseekers and companies. The 150 questions are daunting, but completing them helps a jobseeker understand the kind of workplace in which they will do their best work. And it helps them understand the gaps between what they want and where they now work. As questions are answered, best fit companies are suggested, along with a matching score. This is a no cost site. -
Diialog
Diialog is an enterprise assessment product that uses Web 2.0 concepts to measure company culture and workplace environment. The goal is to improve productivity and engagement by employees. Diialog produces a profile showing the "what is" as well as the environment employees desire. Various groups of employees can be separately assessed, i.e. executives, line managers, etc. Employee analysis and ideation are critical differentiators.