Discussion Panel Member:
Insight into Online Recruitment from the Bloggers perspective

Key themes to this Discussion

1. Learn how Blogs and new techniques are being used by Recruiters and HR?

Jason Goldberg / Jason's background
Throughout his career, Jason Goldberg has taken great pride in hiring and managing high quality teams. More often than not, Goldberg found people for those teams through personal referrals from colleagues and friends.

Unfortunately, every time he had to find a new person to hire, Goldberg found that he had to start the referral process over again. There was no automation, no efficiencies. Frustrated by the repetitive process and the lack of available technology tools, Goldberg took action and founded Jobster, Inc. in 2004 to solve this problem.

Goldberg is joined at Jobster by a team of highly seasoned professionals who bring a wealth of relevant experience to the job – each found through personal contacts and referrals.

Today, Jobster is the career network for the digital generation. We build audiences in the careers space and provide access to those audiences. Jobster integrates social networking, job search and targeted advertising technologies to connect users with people, information, and opportunities to further their careers. Unlike a traditional job board, Jobster is more than just a single destination. We provide access to valuable audiences across the web.

Jobster, headquartered in Seattle, WA is backed by Mayfield Fund, Trinity Ventures, Reed Elsevier, and Ignition Partners. Leading employers including Boeing, Boston Scientific, Expedia, Google, Mitre, Premera, Samsung, and Veritude use Jobster to post jobs, target active and passive candidates, build networks and manage candidate relationships.

Jason Goldberg, Founder and CEO
Jason is the founding visionary behind Jobster and he runs the daily operations of the company. Jason and Jobster’s CTO, Phil Bogle, guide Jobster’s overall product strategy. Jason also directly manages Jobster's sales and marketing organizations. Jason is a frequent public speaker on employment issues and recruiting industry trends and is an avid blogger at jobster.blogs.com.

Prior to founding Jobster, Jason led Strategic Planning & Alliances for T-Mobile USA. Jason's successes at T-Mobile include sourcing and negotiating several multi-million dollar product, marketing, and services relationships, overseeing new business planning, and leading the development and launch of a series of next generation products. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Jason held management positions at AOL Time Warner.

Jason worked from 1993 to 1998 at the White House in Washington D.C., the final two years as senior aide to the White House Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles. Jason received his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and holds a BA from Emory University with honors and Phi Beta Kappa distinction.