profile updated Jan 12, 2010, 12:22 PM
Officially, Jobvite is a recruiting platform that leverages the digital networking phenomenon to attract job candidates and enable the collaboration of hiring teams to identify and hire the best people.
Unofficially, and sort of irreverantly, Jobvite is the missing link for referral and social media recruiting. Think of it as talent acquisition on steroids, or maybe we should say on vitamins. (The Jobvite name makes us think Vitametavegamin.)
What makes us say this is that Jobvite starts with the electronic referral network concept then adds a hiring team collaboration component and an ATS, giving the SaaS platform three distinct parts that work together very nicely.
The presentation is clean and clear. The CRM works from the dashboard and integrates with Outlook to make event calendaring easy. Team members involved in the hiring process get as much access as the recruiter or hiring manager approve, including access to the candidate's vitals and the interview schedule.
Founder Jesper Schultz and Jobvite's Chief Architect Hans Larson seem to have thought of everything.
Schultz, a Danish engineer with years of experience hiring and managing technical teams in the super competitive San Francisco Bay Area, founded Jobvite in December 2003. (Its first name was ForumJobs.) The product, in its present incarnation and with the name Jobvite, was launched three years later.
The product seems perfectly suited to its intended SMB market; Tivo and investment software house Advent are among its customers. One customer, nGenera's recruiting manager Katie Carty Tierney, was so excited with the product she blogged about it.
In December 2007 CMEA Ventures gave the company $7.2M in Series A financing. In July 2008, Dan Finnigan, former head of Yahoo! HotJobs, was appointed CEO and Schultz took the position of Chief Product Officer.
News & Updates 
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Jobvite and Jigsaw Partner to Match Jobs with Contacts (Company)
Jobvite now integrates with Jigsaw to bring real-time contact information to its talent acquisition platform.
The partnership streamlines candidate search on the web, enabling companies to target the right talent for open jobs and reach prospective candidates easily. Using Jobvite Source, employers can match their jobs to profiles in Jigsaw and easily secure comprehensive contact information when they identify a good candidate.
Nov 17, 2009, 6:22 PM -
Jobvite Survey Shows Growing Popularity Of Social Network Recruiting (ZDNet)
Jobvite's recently released Social Recruitment Survey shows that recruiting on social networks continues to grow, despite the overall slowdown in hiring.
Part of the reason is satisfaction with the quality of the candidates. Cost is also a factor, say the surveyed companies, a factor in the 72 percent of the surveyed companies who say they expect to spend more on social networks this year.
Get a copy of the survey here.
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AccuWeather Maximizes Recruitment ROI with Jobvite (BusinessWire)
Recruitment solutions provider Jobvite reports AccuWeather, Inc. has chosen it to maximize recruitment ROI and increase employee referrals.
Jobvite involves all employees in the hiring process and leverage their social networks to find quality candidates
Feb 3, 2009, 12:58 PM -
Ascentium Chooses Jobvite To Accelerate Hiring (BusinessWire)
Fast growing Ascentium Corporation has selected Jobvite as its talent acquisition provider. Ascentium, an interactive marketing and technology consultancy, has nearly doubled in the last year. It chose Jobvite to speed hiring and encourage company collaboration in the process. Jobvite's tools emphasize employee referral and social networking, in addition to a full featured ATS.
Dec 10, 2008, 11:21 AM -
Jobvite Appoints Tim Lambert as Chief Revenue Officer (BusinessWire)
Jobvite, provider of collaborative recruitment solutions, today announced that Tim Lambert has joined the company as chief revenue officer. Lambert will lead sales and business development for the Software-as-a-Service provider. The announcement comes shortly after the appointment of Adam Hyder, veteran Yahoo! and Silicon Valley engineering leader, as Jobvite’s chief technology officer. Sep 8, 2008, 11:27 AM -
Jobvite Gains CTO As Yahoo! Loses Another Exec (BusinessWire)
Adam Hyder, a technology executive with Yahoo!, has joined Jobvite as Chief Technology Officer. Hyder had previously been Director of Engineering & CTO of HotJobs during the time the recruitment division was lead by Dan Finnigan, who is now CEO of Jobvite.
Aug 5, 2008, 12:16 PM
Products & Services
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Jobvite
An SaaS hiring platform that combines, sourcing, applicant tracking, contact management and hiring collaboration tools in one package that is designed to leverage the social and professional networks of employees and others. It's intended to especially appeal to SMBs up to around 3,000 employees.