Standout Jobs

Standout Jobs operated as a business-to-business software company in the recruitment and employer branding sector. Founded in 2007 by Ben Yoskovitz, who served as CEO, the company aimed to provide a platform for businesses to enhance their recruitment processes. Yoskovitz, a serial entrepreneur with experience in web businesses since 1996, co-founded the venture and successfully raised $1.8 million from venture and angel investors. The company's core offering was a software platform that helped clients with employer branding. It also explored a channel partnership model, providing a white-label version of its platform for partners to resell to their existing customer base. However, the business faced significant headwinds, launching its paid product in the fall of 2008, just as the global economy collapsed, leading to a freeze in hiring across many companies. This challenging market timing, coupled with difficulties in finding the right product-market fit, ultimately led to the company not achieving financial success. In 2010, the assets of Standout Jobs were sold to Talent Technology. Talent Technology later became Talemetry, which was subsequently acquired by Jobvite in 2019. Yoskovitz has openly shared the lessons learned from the experience, citing a lack of deep market understanding and the need to launch a minimum viable product faster as key takeaways.

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