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Valentine’s Day For Your Job

When Datedaily discovered Jobbook, a site that matches participants with their ideal jobs, we were impressed with the ability to translate the latest in dating technology to the career world. Jobbook is essentially a matchmaker. Like a dating site, employees and job seekers on the site benefit from Jobbook’s matching service, which matches its members with their dream jobs, based on education, experience, and more importantly, interests.

The Red and Black

Online dating for the perfect job: New company matches students with potential employers

With more than 7,000 members in its beta version, a new job-site launched in September is seeking to reach the University Career Center — among other career centers like those at Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University — to spread the word to recent graduates.

Umass Amherst Her Campus

Jobbook, A look at better networking

Jobbook is a company founded by students from top universities, to help you get the resources you need to find your dream job. It works by matching its members up with employers and companies that pertain to their field of interest. Just like students, employers are signing up with Jobbook to find their perfect candidate. Through this website you will gain access to jobs and internships around North America. The best part: it’s absolutely free.

Canada.com

Jobbook has a lofty aim - to be the world's top job-searching website

Jobbook's model is different than that of other job search sites, such as Monster.ca, and the similarly named Jobboom. Instead of charging employers to list their ads, or to see the resumes of candidates, Jobbook charges employers once someone is hired - at a standard rate of five per cent of the annual salary. The company says this ensures a higher success rate, and often saves employers money.

All Entrepreneur

A Dream Job Can Be Right Around the Corner: A Discussion With Jobbook Founders Antoine de Brabant & Noah Chaimowicz

Let’s face it, finding a good job is anything but easy. It not only involves hours of screening through titles and functions that, in the end, tell us nothing about the nature of the actual work. Moreover, the bigger job search engines out there can be anything but friendly and personal. Enter Jobbook.

The Silhouette

Jobbook: a godsend to students

With student unemployment at a pretty unfavourable mark, students and web-developers are looking for news ways to deliver employment to today’s student population. Meet Jobbook: your one-stop shop for student-only employment.

Bull and Bear

Job-Search Website Jobbook.com Launches

After approximately one year of planning, the new and contentious social media site Jobboook went live to the public on Monday, September 26. The goal of this start-up is to connect students and recent graduates from most of the top Universities in Canada and the United States with prospective employers.

The Prince Edward Herald

Jobbook launch recalls past McGill controversy

De Brabant believes that "the tradition of the internet is that it’s free," and that it would be wrong to charge unemployed people fees. Accordingly, only the employer is charged for the service and only upon a successful hiring. Additionally there is currently "no provision for ad revenue," said de Brabant. "That’s not what our mission is."

David Suzuki Foundation

Jobbook News launches with an Exclusive interview with David Suzuki

Over the week-end, thousands took to the streets of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver on Saturday to voice their grievances. Jobbook News was covering the story at Occupy Montreal, and we bumped into David Suzuki, famed Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activis. Here’s what he had to say...

Huffington Post

Jobbook News Exclusive interview with David Suzuki covered in Huffington Post

In an interview with JobBook News during an Occupy Montreal event this past weekend, the host of CBC’s iconic The Nature of Things and renowned environmental activist took a step away from the policy-oriented issues he usually talks about and took a broadside at what he sees as an over-corporatized society.

Montreal on rails

Hosted by Jobbook

This month was a funny month to organize the meetup. I were able to have confirmations for the talks really early but then we couldn’t have the Notman House room. I’ve met people from Jobbook today and they will share their working place with us.

Tech Vibes

Montreal's Jobbook aims to change the game in human resources

Montreal based startup Jobbook is no exception, matching members with the jobs they want, much like an online dating site, but for the human resources industry. The difference between Taleo, which 5,000 corporations use for applicant selection and Jobbook is that the potential employee is matched with a job versus having to search for one.

The Concordia Link

JobBook Hits Concordia.

Concordia student Antoine de Brabant knows you want a job. He also knows you don't want to pay a website upfront to help find you one. That's why he and some partners decided to start their own site, one that's a bit of an update on the classic online recruitment model.

HEC L'Intérêt

Jobbook, site de rencontre d’emploi.

Fondé par deux jeunes entrepreneurs en recherche de nouvelles aventures, Antoine De Brabant et Noah Chaimowicz, en août 2010, Jobbook propose de jumeler chercheurs d’emploi et employeurs grâce à un système automatisé qui analyse la compatibilité entre les deux.

The Gazette

A not-so-modest goal

<p>the goal of the algorithm is to put the ultimate match at the top of the list," explained Noah Chaimowicz, 30, the cofounder in charge of development. "So for employers, it's easy because it goes by which criteria they specify, but for job seekers, they can click thumbs up and thumbs down on each posting, and that way the program will learn more about the user's preferences.</p>