SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Simply Hired, the largest independent job search engine with properties in 24 countries and 12 languages, today announced the appointment of Bob Taylor as Senior Vice President of Sales. Taylor, who most recently served as Chief Revenue Office of Vault.com and Infobase Holdings, has 30 years of experience in establishing and leading teams that sell new technology and online media to the HR industry. In his new role, he will lead global sales strategy and execution as Simply Hired’s ongoing innovation in job search continues to drive exceptional value for job seekers and recruiters.
“Bob has successfully translated new HR business models and products into revenue growth for innovators like CareerMosaic (now CareerBuilder), Yahoo! Hotjobs (acquired by Monster) and Vault.com (acquired by Infobase Holdings),” said James Beriker, president and CEO, Simply Hired. “His unparalleled expertise in helping companies use emerging technology to build employer brand and source candidates will be essential as Simply Hired moves into our next phase of market growth.”
Taylor comes to Simply Hired as the company continues to build new, high-impact solutions for job seekers and employers. Simply Hired’s content aggregation and search technology platform indexes 10 million job listings in every occupation from many online sources, including company career pages, job boards and niche job websites. The company has developed proprietary algorithms that determine which jobs to show each user, based on individual and aggregate behavioral data, to ensure that job seekers see the most appropriate jobs.
The combination of Simply Hired’s performance-based job advertising solution and technology leadership yields significant advantages for employers who need to fill open positions faster and at lower cost. Independent third-party analysis by Forrester Consulting has shown that Simply Hired delivers quality hires at an average of 58% of the cost of two major job boards and that “faster time-to-fill is also believed to have a positive effect on nearly 100% of [Simply Hired] hiring campaigns.”1
“Job seekers are increasingly relying on search and mobile to research and find jobs, but employers are lagging in their adoption of those technologies,” said Taylor. “The companies that can effectively leverage those technologies to build their employer brands and source the right candidates will develop meaningful competitive advantages. In the most successful companies, talent acquisition teams will adopt the practices of their counterparts on the online marketing team. Simply Hired is playing a huge role in enabling that transition — and I am thrilled to now be a part of that.”
Before joining Simply Hired, Taylor was the Chief Revenue Officer at Infobase Holdings, Inc. where he was responsible for all subsidiary companies, as well as a sales team of forty members. Taylor previously held the Chief Revenue Officer role at Vault.com, a provider of career related content to students at leading universities. When Vault.com merged with Infobase Learning and Learn360, Bob spent two years as Chief Revenue Officer for the combined companies.
Prior to Vault.com, Taylor spent a year developing a startup with Employment LLC and was a member of the Yahoo! / Hot Jobs team as a Regional Sales Manager where he led the east coast major accounts team.
Taylor began his career in online human capital with the launch of Insurance Connections!, an online community for insurance professionals, which he later sold to the Bernard Hodes Group, one of the first advertising agencies dedicated to helping companies build their employment brands and source candidates. At Hodes, Taylor was responsible for business development for the online communities business and creating the agency's global interactive marketing strategy. This role included building the teams and capabilities for delivering those products and services, as well as positioning and selling those offerings to Hodes clients. He holds a BS in Marketing and Economics from the University of Maryland College Park.
About Simply Hired
Simply Hired, a technology company based in Sunnyvale, California, operates job search engines in 24 countries and 12 languages. With more than 34 million unique visitors per month, the company provides job seekers access to millions of job openings across all job categories and industries, reaching job seekers on the web, mobile devices, email, and via thousands of partner sites including The Washington Post, Fox Business, VentureBeat, ABC News, Computerworld, and International Nurses Association. Simply Hired enables employers to efficiently and cost-effectively reach candidates searching for jobs through its full-service pay-per-click (PPC) and self-service pay-per-post job advertising solutions. Simply Hired was founded in 2004 and is privately held with funding from Foundation Capital and IDG Ventures. For more information, visit www.simplyhired.com.
