On Feb. 24th, 2014, Monster announced the acquisition of TalentBin, Inc.a social profile talent search engine, and Gozaik LLC, a developer of social jobs aggregation and distribution technology.
On April 3rd, 2013, Craig and Lars interviewed Gozaik CEO, Joe Budzienski (@gozaik1) about their (then) recently beta launched smart resume and job search app for Twitter users. I wonder if Joe knew then what a year would bring.
Gozaik launched as a free social web application that basically used aggregated technology to dissect Twitter for job openings and released this information to Gozaik users who could then apply for the jobs using their Gozaik résumés.
When we spoke with Joe last year, Gozaik had seen impressive buzz since it’s initial press release that same week and wracked up 3000 users in 48 hours. Budzienski told us they were already receiving contact from 14 countries around the world requesting new and extended features.
Apparently they were quite good. Details of the Monster acquisition were not disclosed. Whatever the deal was, I’m guessing Gozaik was pleased with the speed of their success.
We very much enjoyed Joe and his team. They even invited us to their launch party in Boston. Alas we couldn’t make it. But they were kind enough to send us some cool T-shirts from the event.
Congrats to Joe and Gozaik. And thanks again for the T-shirts!
It was great interview……..we got an idea about it