Two of my long-time friends, the –Teach Head Brothers— (one of the most renowned French Microsoft .NET portal) Laurent and Mathieu (both MIcrosoft Most Valuable Professionals), have launched (public beta) on April 22 Jobping, a new specialized and totally focused job-posting website dedicated to job seekers and employers in the Microsoft technology field. Two others MS specialists are also participating to this nice story: Mark Kemper and Ally Colqhoun. Jobping is for now concentrating on the Australian market.

I find the business idea and positioning quite interesting and I am excited to follow the development of Jobping in the coming time.

Jobping is also the result of a nice international and geographical-exploded (France, Australia, etc.) development-team, based on Agile approach and nice technology. So I hope that Laurent and Mathieu will also share with us some of their experience in this field ;-)

Good luck to Jobping, I cross the fingers!

Have a look at the official Press Release.

Sydney, Australia – April 22, 2010 – Last week, Jobping, a new job posting web site aimed specifically at job seekers and employers who work with Microsoft technologies, was released into public beta.

Jobping currently focuses on the Australian market and aims to bring a better quality of candidate to a posted vacancy via a niche, industry targeted approach.

The site is unique, user friendly and streamlined when compared to the larger job post boards. For instance, publishing is done in a couple of clicks and the job is instantly broadcast through Twitter, Facebook and job indexing sites such as Indeed and CareerJet. Recruiters are also able to add their company Twitter feed to a job post in order to cross sell other vacancies all in one place.

From a job seeker point of view Jobping searching works just like today’s search engines with specific job filtering options. Job seekers also benefit by being kept up to date in a variety of ways including through Rss, Internet Explorer Web Slice, Twitter or Facebook. Similarly, job seekers are able to apply for a position using their LinkedIn profile, saving time and eliminating the need to keep two separate resumes up to date and they may optionally attach a traditional pdf or word resume.

More features and functions based on user feedback and requirements will be implemented quickly as Jobping takes an organic and user oriented approach to product development.

Jobping will remain free during the beta period which will continue for 3-6 months. Advertisers utilising the site during the beta period will be rewarded through special discounts once the pricing structure is introduced.

Visit us on www.jobping.com !

Disclaimer: Jobping is a private project of Laurent, Mathieu and their two friends, not linked with Innoveo in any manner, excepted our friendship ;-)