Jobfox is a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, honoring the most innovative private technology companies based in North America. The job site is one of 200 companies identified by Red Herring as a top tech startup. The Red Herring editorial board evaluated more than 800 companies to choose the top businesses, such as Jobfox, that are leading the next wave of innovation.
“Market enthusiasm continues to grow for Jobfox and its unique set of online services that empowers working professionals and connects them intuitively – based on the specific matching algorithms of skills and job requirements – to employers,” said Jobfox CEO Rob McGovern. “Employers are saving recruiting time and costs by turning to Jobfox and they are gaining access to hard-to-find employed candidates who don’t use traditional job boards.”
The 100 finalists will be announced at the Red Herring North America event, May 12-14, at The Fairmont San Jose. More information about this event can be found at http://herringevents.com/northamerica08/index.html. The event attracts leading entrepreneurs, financiers and corporate strategists.
“We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together,” said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. “It was tough to choose just 200 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists.”
Earlier this year, Jobfox was recognized as an Official Honoree for the 12th Annual Webby Awards. Jobfox was also named a 2008 most promising start-up by American Venture Magazine. In December, Jobfox raised $20 million in its third round of financing. To date, Jobfox has raised $40 million in venture capital funding for global market expansion and continued development of services to help job seekers and professionals connect with each other.
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JobFox does seem to have a unique service. I was quite pleased to find CV Fox – a site which lets you search for free CV’s (resumes) from all over the internet.
It does three searches in one, so to really see the power of the search, you must click on the refinement tabs on the first result page. It works!
I’m trying to post this again without the URL, I guess readers can find it with Google. It seems to have crashed the server… hope it’s not a double post… sorry if it is, but it crashed the last time…
JOBFOX is a fraudulent job board. They prey on the unemployed. My name is Henry. I live in Los Angeles, CA. I asked jobfox to cancel my membership within 1/2 hour of receiving their “Welcome” message. They did not acknowledge the cancelation. They proceeded to charge my credit card 4 days later. I tried again repeatedly. They acknowledge my request to cancel but they still drag their feet about the refund. I still don’t have a refund after 2 months of trying. No phone number to call. No real person to talk to. Their website is a scam. WARNING: STAY AWAY FROM JOBFOX. Spread this warning around so that others don’t fall victim to their practices.
As a jobseeker, my experience with JobFox has not been positive. They do not filter for appropriate jobs, not even basic items such as, level of education, security clearance and industry. They post jobs with closing dates written in the description that have already past. It is impossible to tell if a job is really even open — unless you sign up and pay for their advantage service. I would not recommend them.
I was pleased with Jobfox until recently, when in the middle of a jobhunt, they changed their format, and are now pushing for the paid upgrade for any services…and what makes me spitting mad, is not ONLY did they LOSE MY RESUME, (or at least I can’t access it… unless perhaps I become a paid “advantage” member?) and I CAN’T ACCESS THEM BY PHONE!!! There is no way except through customerservice@jobfox.com, and I haven’t heard back from them when I did email them…I am furious, and hope no one else gets shafted like I have!!!
Jobfox contains fake/non job openings. Some if not all of the jobs listed may have been truly available jobs in the past. However, six potential jobs for me have all turned out to be fraudulent. Not wasting any more time here.
I agree with the non-positive reviews of the Jobfox business model.
This company is trying to monetize it’s website at the expense of frustrated and unemployed individuals. Maybe it is great for employers, but it truly sucks for the applicants.
I was initially impressed by the promises and functionality apparent on the JobFox web site. I even decided to try out the more premium service for a couple of months.
After giving it a fair trial I’ve found it worthless.
Few of the “hits” I’ve gotten are appropriate. I’ve “applied” to a dozen via JobFox that looked like possible fits and have no evidence that my resume has even been received by any. I have certainly had no confirmation or even rejections — from the employers.
I’ve had much better success from Craig’s List. No job yet but some interest, acknowledgment of receipt and letters of rejection showing that they did look at the application.
jobfox is a scam and i am suing them
IT IS A FAKE! MOST OF ITS OPENNINGS ARE FAKE! ALL THEY WANT IS TO SELL YOU STUFF! WHAT A SHAME!
Everyone here is correct. I worked there and at first, I really loved the place. However, it was run by a complete group of tards, from Peggy P, the head of sales, to Steven Toole, the name should tell you all (however, the best was his email stoole@jobfox.com, stool, casuse he is pure crap).
The concept worked, but it needed to be refined and kept to a smaller group of groups, instead of being everything for everyone. The problem is the chief tard, Rob McGovern, might be the worst CEO to date (except for the crooks from the banks). He believes he is God’s gift for everything and that he knows more than you. He can not get through a speech without saying Umm, on average 126 times in a 10 min talk. With him, lighting did not and will not strike twice. Careerbuilder was a success because he was early to market and bought another company that changed the whole playing field. He is a short, little, Napolean and he has meet his Waterloo.
And finally, for those of you above who spent money on services, I am so sorry. All of the candidate stuff came later after companies started realizing that the Fox was a steaming turd and they needed to generate revenue from somewhere. I am not sure if you can really sue, but know they just fired the rest of their sales staff, which means the end is near!!!!!
Oh and beware of their other scam, ResumePal….more hyped up garbage.