Workopolis
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| Type of business | Public |
|---|---|
Type of site | Job search engine |
| Available in | English, French |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Area served | Canada |
| Owner | Toronto Star and Gesca |
| Key people | Gabriel Bouchard, President |
| Industry | Recruitment |
| Products | Job search engine |
| Employees | 135 |
| URL | www.workopolis.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
Workopolis [1] is Canada's leading online career-solutions provider drawing more than 3 million unique visitors monthly, offering the most posted resumes and twice as many job postings as its nearest competitor[1]. Headquartered in Toronto, Workopolis has offices in eight Canadian cities, including Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver and provides a fully bilingual suite of industry-leading products and services.
History
Formerly globecareers.com, workopolis.com was launched in January 2000, and it claims to be Canada's largest employment-related website offering more than 50,000 jobs daily[citation needed].
Workopolis launched its French version [2] in September 2001. Keeping in character with its English sibling sites, it advertises three times more jobs than any other career site in Quebec.
That same year, Workopolis also added online campus recruitment services with the purchase of campusworklink.com in August 2001. In January 2002, campusworklink.com was migrated to Workopolis technology and in May 2002 was rebranded as workopolisCampus.com [3]. workopolisCampus.com offers more jobs, students, and career centres than any other job site in Canada.
In 2005, BackCheck [4] partnered with Workopolis to offer employers a background checking service that includes criminal background checks, employment reference checks and education verifications.
Workopolis re-launched Workpolis TV in partnership with Business News Network in 2006.
The Workopolis NicheNetwork [5] (formerly Brainhunter), a niche job board business is the latest addition (2008) to the Workopolis family which already includes WorkopolisCampus, CorporateWorks, and Workopolis.com, Canada’s largest job site.
A mobile version of the site was launched in November 2008 which gives access to a reduced feature set over a mobile phone. The mobile service is available in two languages: English [6] and French [7].
Features
The purpose of www.workopolis.com is to allow registered users to create a portfolio for use in their job search or candidate search. Registration is free.
This website can be used in a number of ways:
Employers can:
• Post job opportunities on the website
• Access intuitive screening tools
• Reach more than 100 niche industries and trade and professional associations
• Search more than 1 million potential candidates in the Resume Database
• Subscribe to Connections, a weekly newsletter for recruiters and employers
• Build their brand template
• Advertise their company brand
Candidates can:
• Search and apply to job opportunities
• Create and edit resumes
• Create alerts so they are notified when suitable job opportunities become available.
• Review the profiles of companies
• Subscribe to JobMail a weekly newsletter for job seekers
• Create RSS feeds
• Utilize tools such as CareerAlerts!, Resume Rescue and an online salary calculator to help job seekers find the right job.
• Share job postings with a friend
Partnerships
Workopolis is a Canadian employment search and career planning website owned in partnership by two Canadian media companies, the Toronto Star and Gesca Ltée, the newspaper publishing subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada. Formerly, The Globe and Mail was a partner in the site through its parent, CTVglobemedia.
Workopolis is also the exclusive Official Supplier of Online Recruitment Services for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Corporate governance
Current members of the board of directors of Workopolis are:
Pierre-Elliot Levasseur
Guy Crevier
Lorenzo DeMarchi
Jean Durocher
Tomer Strolight
Chris Goodridge
Gabriel Bouchard
Dave Holland
Awards and Accolades
49th Estate, 2008
WEDDLE’ Annual User's Choice Awards, 2008
Media Innovation Awards Bronze – Radio, 2007
Office de la langue française Award, 2005
Marketing Awards, 2006
Top Privacy Policy Award, 2006
Quintessential Careers Site Award, 2003
Nomination for CareerXroads 2002
Most Promising New Company of the Year Award, Canadian New Media Awards 2001
CASSIE (Canadian Advertising Success Stories), 2001
Gold Medal of the International Broadcasting Awards in Las Vegas, 2001
Silver Award of Merit, Extra Awards of the Canadian Newspaper Association, 2000
Workopolis Presidents
Kim Peters: 2000-2003
Patrick Sullivan: 2003-2009
Gabriel Bouchard: 2009-present
External links
- ^ comScore Media Metrix
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