| Dec 19, 2006 |
Jobshark being acquired by global leader JobServe of the United Kingdom. |
| February 1, 2006 |
Jobshark launches "The National Technology
Recruiting Centre" @ Jobshark.com to facilitate the connection
between technology workers and technology job opportunities. |
| February 1, 2006 |
Jobshark launches "Jobshark Volunteer"
in partnership with local volunteer centre's across the country to encourage
volunteerism to Jobshark's 4+ million annual users and 885,000 registered
members. |
| January 1, 2006 |
Jobshark reaches a record 875,000 registered
job seekers. |
| December 1, 2005 |
Jobshark launches Jobshark Non Profit and Charity
to allow organizations in the sector to recruit talent inexpensively. |
| February 1, 2005 |
The Shark Media Group officially launches Rentshak.ca
for the Canadian real estate rental marketplace. |
| January 10, 2005 |
Jobshark records a record 135,000 new registrants
in 2004. |
| November 1, 2004 |
Jobshark launches Jobshark EDU, a skills based job
board solution for Universities and colleges. |
| August 1st, 2004 |
Hamilton Health Sciences launches Jobshark RecruitHealth
to run their career platform for its 10,000 employees. |
| May 1, 2004 |
Jobshark launches Jobshark RecruitHealth for the
Canadian Health Care marketplace. RecruitHealth is a private labelled career
and recruitment solution that manages under 1000 to over 50,000 employees. |
| May 10, 2004 |
Jobshark.com's operating company renamed The Shark
Media Group |
| April 15 2004 |
Jobshark acquired by Aspire Holdings Inc in a corporate
reorganization. |
| November 10, 2003: |
Jobshark launches Jobshark Healthcare. |
| July 19 2003: |
Jobshark Technologies announced the launch of its
new e-Recruiting Talent Relationship Management system which is a private
label e-Recruitment solution for large national and multinational companies.
|
| April 3 2003: |
Jobshark launches two new featured sections, Jobshark
Technology and Jobshark Financial Services. |
| February 15 2003: |
Jobshark announces the launching of its new Front
of the Line and Priority Elite services. For a small fee, job seekers can
have their resumes highlighted and placed at the top of the recruiters applicant
list, ensuring they will be seen. With Priority Elite, job seekers become
the first to receive notification of the latest job offers. |
| October 2002: |
Message from
our CEO - October 2002 |
| April 2002 : |
Jobshark Technologies completes installation for
Info-centro to run the job centres for the government of El Salvador. Please
visit http://www.ijobshark.com.sv |
| July 2002: |
Jobshark Technologies along with partner The Miami
Herald launch Empleos Americas http://www.empleosamericas.com
for the South Florida market. |
| January 2002: |
Jobshark's Canadian web site
upgraded with latest software enhancements. Improving the exposure of companies
within the Jobshark.ca web site is a key feature of the latest enhancements.
With a new Now Hiring section for preferred customers and margin
ads incorporated throughout the site, companies are now provided with
extra exposure in the most visited areas to ensure that their jobs are being
seen by those quailed job seekers. |
| January 2002: |
Jobshark Technologies licenses
its recruiting software to Infocentros to run the job centers for the government
of El Salvador. |
| December 2001: |
JobShark Technologies Inc.
is formed to manage the company's software sales internationally. |
| June 12, 2001: |
JobShark continues successful
expansion across Latin America securing global online recruitment leadership
See release. |
| April 11, 2001: |
Jobshark to Launch in Uruguay
in 2 Weeks - Uruguay
See release. |
| March 16: |
JobShark announced today that
it has completed technological and site branding upgrades to JobShark Argentina,
JobShark Chile, JobShark Colombia, JobShark Mexico, JobShark Venezuela.
This now puts the Latin American countries on an equal technological and
branding platform with JobShark Canada. |
| January 29, 2001: |
Jobshark launches sophisticated
new Recruiter Centre in Canada for JobShark.ca powered by "Recruiter 2001"
software. Major technological, banding and site navigation advances have
been achieved, providing JobShark's corporate clients with leading edge
online Candidate Management Software.
See release. |
| December 15, 2000: |
JobShark Brazil announces
a joint venture with Authent Executive Search, forming JobShark Authent
Brazil. The objective of the alliance is to provide Brasilian companies
with efficient and effective recrutiment and selection services. Jobshark-Authent
offiers a wide array of services including on-line management of the process
through its sophisticated software, delivery of people, and traditional
executive search services. The Jobshark-Authent alliance is truly a powerful
partnership as it combines the most advanced software application in the
market with the off-line experience and know-how of Authent. |
| December 8, 2000: |
Jobshark.com is officially
launched in Brazil, in portuguese with partner Osite.com, the Brazilian
site of ElSitio.com, JobShark's regional partner. ElSitio is the leading
portal in Latin America, and it receives over 5 million unique users a month.
|
| December 1, 2000 |
JobShark announces that it
has repurchased JobShark UK from license holders Marle Group Ltd, effectively
making JobShark UK, a 100% owned subsidiary of JobShark. This restructuring
within the group now gives jobshark majority control of all operations globally. |
| December 1, 2000: |
JobShark Argentina forms alliance
with Talent Search. Jobshark TS is the result of an alliance between Jobshark
Argentina and Talent Searchers Argentina, effective from 1 December 2000.
Talent Searcheres is a local consultant specialising in the detection of
talent with a local and regional presence. It recruits people based on competencies
and their compatibility with the organisation. The team of Talent Searchers
is made up of a team of experts with interdisciplinary skills and especially
focussed in the high tech segment. The alliance offers 2 standard products,
the delivery of Profiles (based on key skill sets) and People (pre-selected
candidates having passed rigorous interviews and diagnosis tests). |
| November 1, 2000: |
Jobshark announces that new
Job Seeker's website launched on October 1st increased both candidate quality
and user retention: in October, the percentage of job seekers applying through
a JAWS email (JAWS is JobShark's proprietary skill set matching software)
increased to 61% vs 44% before the site relaunch. 97% of job seekers who
registered in October completed a matching profile, providing JobShark with
the most valuable data on Job Seekers within the industry, which JobShark
uses to provide high quality matching between the recruiter and Job Seeker
through JAWS. |
| October 5, 2000: |
Jobshark.com's National Employment
study reveals that Canadians say landing the right job is more difficult
than raising children, getting a date or commuting.
See release. |
| October 2, 2000: |
Jobshark.com launches $1 million
advertising campaign in key Canadian cities.
See Realease |
| October 1, 2000: |
Jobshark.com relaunches job
seeker website in Canada with new corporate identity, enhanced navigation
and features to make it even more effective at helping job seekers 'Find
the Right Job". See Release |
| Sept 12, 2000: |
Jobshark.com expands throughout
Latin America and cements Global online recruitment leadership. JobShark
partners with El Sitio, Latin America's leading portal, which receives over
5 million unique users a month, and officially launches into Argentina,
Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico. JobShark becomes the exclusive online career
channel on www.elsitio.com and all of their country specific web sites.
See release. |
| Sept 1, 2000: |
JobShark Chile becomes the
#1 online recruiting company in Chile with over 100,000 registered job seekers
and 100 corporate clients attained in just 5 months! |
| Aug 31, 2000: |
Jobshark.com is named to PROFIT
magazine's list of Canada's Hottest 50 Startups. Jobshark.com is the only
online recruitment company and one of only eight dot-coms named to the list.
See release. |
| August 1, 2000: |
JobShark announces the appointment
of William Bell, a seasoned general manager with over 25 years experience,
as National Sales manager for Canada, to lead jobshark.com's 25 sales and
client service representatives. |
| June 25, 2000: |
Jobshark.com's Canadian database
reaches 300,000 registered online job seekers. |
| June 22, 2000: |
Jobshark.com is chosen by
the Globe & Mail and Bain & Company as one of Canada's Hottest dot-coms.
See release & article. |
| May 21, 2000: |
JobShark Canada launches new
Job Seeker and Recruiter interface with enhanced JAWS Skill Set Matching
software that will allow JobShark to offer skill set matching across all
industries. |
| May 13, 2000: |
JobShark UK launches into
Ireland with Jobshark.ie.
See release. |
| May 8, 2000: |
JobShark UK receives JobShark's
enhanced proprietary JAWS Skill Set matching software and officially launches
skill sets for the Education, Engineering and Legal professions, all with
a new an improved Job Seekers and Recruiters interface. |
| April 17, 2000: |
JobShark announces that it
has developed the next generation of its JAWS skill set matching technology
that gives JobShark the ability to offer superior matching through skill
set profiling across all industries. |
| April 11, 2000: |
JobShark enters the South
American market with a $7.5 Million deal (CDN) launching jobShark Chile
with media parter, Iberoamerica Media Holdings Chile, one of the largest
radio and TV groups in the market and with MaST America's a leading HR Management
consulting group. Jobshark.com becomes first online recruitment firm with
operations in North America, Europe and South America.
See release. |
| Dec 20, 1999: |
Jobshark.com's Canadian database
surges to 200,000 members, an increase of 60,000 in the previous 10 weeks.
See release. |
| Nov 3, 1999: |
Jobshark.com launches its
French language web site in Quebec. Site is seamlessly linked to parent
site, extending recruiters' candidate search to both of Canada's official
languages. See release.
|
| Oct 4, 1999: |
Jobshark.com launches Jobshark.co.uk
in the UK which registers 48,000 job seekers in first five months of operation.
See release. |
| Sept 27, 1999: |
Jobshark.com announces a $1
million advertising campaign in Key Canadian Centres. |
| Aug 18, 1999: |
Jobshark.com announces a $6
Million equity and licensing deal and plans to enter the European market
in the fall of 1999.
See release. |
| April 29, 1999: |
Jobshark.com's database of
registered online job seekers reaches 100,000 in less than two years of
operation. Company claims status as having the largest online database of
job seekers in Canada.
See release. |
| Sept 10, 1998: |
Jobshark.com enhances JAWS
and releases JAWS Skills Analyzer for the IT industry, that provides skill
set classification and matching on 300 specific IT skill sets, delivering
high quality matches between the recruiter and job seeker.
See release. |
| Nov 25, 1997: |
Jobshark Corporation enhances
Recruiter Center functionality.
See release. |
| Nov 19, 1997: |
Jobshark Corporation launches
customized HRM center for corporate clients.
See release. |
| Nov 5, 1997: |
Jobshark Corporation launches
"JAWS" job seeking technology that matches at a category level.
See release. |
| Sept 1, 1997: |
www.jobshark.com
is officially launched in English Canada.
See release. |
| July 3, 1997: |
Jobshark.com is formed, becoming
the first Internet-based Canadian company to provide complete online services
for recruiters and job seekers.
See release. |
