Simply Hired Blog

Simply Hired Secures $4.6 Million in Growth Round and Crosses Profitability Milestone

Announced this morning, Simply Hired secured $4.6 million in a growth round from IDG Ventures and Foundation Capital. The company plans to use the funding to support future domestic growth, increasing the headcount from 50 to 80 in 2009 and to accelerate international expansion. Including this round of funding, Simply Hired has raised $22.3 million to date.

The company has seen significant growth on both its SimplyHired.com site and its network of 5,000 partner sites. In addition, Simply Hired launched localized job search engines in 13 countries (most recently in Brazil, Belgium, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands) and in seven languages across five continents.

Simply Hired crossed a profitability milestone, operated cash flow positive for the last 4 quarters, and had record revenue growth for the past 16 consecutive quarters. It was also reported as the fastest growing job site in 2008 according to both ComScore and Neilsen Media and was recently named a Top 100 Site of 2009 by PC Magazine. Its network, with job listings powered by Simply Hired, includes LinkedIn, MySpace, The Washington Post, CNNMoney, BusinessWeek and Plaxo, reaches 23 million unique visitors monthly. By reaching job seekers where they spend their time on the Web, SimplyHired.com and its networked are ranked as one of the top 40 most trafficked websites in the United States, according to Quantcast.

Check out the press release for more info!

Get Organized with Simply Hired Accounts

It’s August, and the sweet scents of freshly sharpened pencils, binders filled with lined paper and Elmer’s glue are in the air. If you have kids, you’ll know that the start of the school year is coming up for many students of all ages. Since going from 0 to 60 in terms of schedules can be hard to handle, this is the perfect time to get organized.

Fortunately, Simply Hired has a tool which purpose is to save, organize and manage everything you need in your job search. By creating a Simply Hired account, you can:

- save and manage your searches.
- create, manage and edit your email alerts.
- see jobs you've viewed.
- see jobs you've mapped.
- rate and save notes about jobs you have viewed.
- hide specific companies or sites from appearing in your searches.

While you have most of these functions even without an account, if you clear your browser's cache or cookies, this information is lost. A Simply Hired account allows you to save and access your saved information anytime, anyplace. Think of it as your personal job search Trapper Keeper that you can bring with you wherever you go.

Good luck and don’t forget to pack a bagged lunch!

Note: One of the questions we get the most is in regards to email alerts vs. accounts. Many users request that their accounts be closed while they actually want to cancel their email alerts. However subscribing to email alerts does not automatically create an account for you. You cannot cancel email alerts by closing your account and likewise, unsubscribing from email alerts has no effect on your account. What an account DOES do is allow you to manage your email alerts. Instead of unsubscribing to each of your job alerts through your email, you can log into your account and click on the Alerts tab to view, edit or unsubscribe to any and all of your alerts.