PHOENIX— Jobing.com, the nation’s largest, locally-focused online recruitment media

provider, announced today it is acquiring CanJobs.com, a network of more than 140 local

city, provincial, and industry-specific domains in Canada. Jobing.com acquired the

assets from Ontario-based VentureLabour.com, a Farms.com company. The agreement

marks the ninth acquisition for Jobing.com and comes on the heels of being named on the

Inc. 500™ list of fastest-growing companies for the third consecutive year.

“The momentum at Jobing.com is truly exciting and I am delighted to bring our business

to Canada,” said Jobing.com Founder and CEO Aaron Matos. “CanJobs.com has built a

solid business and the Canadian economy is booming; unemployment is at a 30-year low

and we look forward to deploying our successful recruitment solutions within that

environment.”

“This acquisition continues our focused ‘multi-local’ expansion strategy, dedicated to

providing local recruiting solutions to specific local markets throughout the United

States, and now throughout North America,” Matos said. “The CanJobs.com unique

strategy of combining niche sites with local sites also provides employers with a two-

pronged approach to finding qualified applicants: first through the skills sets the

employer seeks and second by promoting the position locally.”

In just four years, Jobing.com has expanded its services with major acquisitions that

include Employcity.com, Coloradojobs.com, Jobsummit.com, the California Online Job

Network, Rhinomite.com, Careers Colorado, and LocalCareers Network. That growth,

says Matos, is a result of Jobing.com’s focus on local recruiting needs. “Unlike the

untargeted national sites, Jobing.com is dedicated solely to recruiting at the local level,

connecting organizations with local people so they can build relationships and hire more

effectively.”

Celebrating a decade of doing business this year, the CanJobs.com network includes a

number of significant provincial domains in Canada, such as Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba,

Quebec, and British Columbia. At the local level, the network includes domains specific

to major cities such as Ottawa, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Edmonton.

CanJobs.com will continue to operate independently as a wholly-owned subsidiary of

Jobing.com, and remain headquartered in Ontario with various offices opening

throughout Canada to serve the local city and provincial recruiting needs. Jobing.com

veteran Jon Schneider, Vice President of Operations, will oversee integration. “The

CanJobs.com portfolio is the most complete domain set in the Canadian local jobs space

and we're excited to bring the company, its employees, its clients, and its job seekers into

the Jobing.com family,” he said. “As Jobing.com continues our expansion, we looked to

the strong and robust economy in Canada for our first international expansion.”

“By continuing to operate independently, CanJobs.com will continue to remain sensitive

to Canadian business needs and Canadian business culture,” Schneider said. “Jobing.com

is an entrepreneurial driven company, so CanJobs.com employers – a large majority of

whom are entrepreneurs, will continue to see their needs well serviced.”

Jobing.com was born in 2000 when Matos, who was the director of human resources for

a regional publishing and media company in Arizona, began to realize there was a

phenomenal opportunity to leverage the power of the Internet to connect employers and

job seekers with a focus on the local marketplace.

“Jobing.com was founded on the belief that recruiting great people is the driving force

behind the success of every business and retaining great talent is the key to that success,”

Matos said. “Since our inception, we have been singularly focused on connecting local

employers and job seekers. Our growth across our markets is the result of the dedication

and commitment of the entire Jobing.com team. We are very proud of our

accomplishments, but we have only scratched the surface of our potential.”

Jobing.com was launched as a Phoenix site and enjoyed swift success. Through the

strategic acquisitions and new market start-ups, Matos’ Internet job board evolved into an

online community that provides the forum, resources, and technology to connect

organizations and job seekers in 18 major metropolitan communities. Known for its

innovative recruiting solutions and bold marketing strategies, Jobing.com has grown to

become the nation’s largest, locally-focused employment media provider, serving some

15,000 organizations with recruiting needs and welcoming more than four million visitors

to its site every month. Earlier this week, Jobing.com was named for the third

consecutive year on Inc. Magazine’s annual list of the nation’s fastest-growing

companies.

A three-time Inc. 500™ fastest-growing company, Jobing.com is a leading media

provider of locally-focused recruiting, online job search and talent management solutions

designed to connect local employers and job seekers. Jobing.com’s portfolio of products

include, among others: the largest locally-focused job search web site; Career Expo job

fairs; JobingVideo; JobingTV; JobingCareerCenter and Go Jobing magazine. Jobing.com

is a privately held, employee-owned company, funded by investors Great Hill Partners

and JMI Equity. The company currently serves communities in the states of Arizona,

California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wisconsin. For more

information visit www.Jobing.com.

VentureLabour.com is a leader in providing strategic consulting, online branding/marketing,

website and database development services. As an entrepreneurial based company

VentureLabour.com also owns and operates a number of websites, providing it with hands-on

online marketing and ecommerce experience. The VentureLabour.com was founded in 1999; it

is a Farms.com company. Farms.com Ltd. is a leading provider of innovative information

products and services for the global agriculture and food industries. Farms.com can be accessed

through its internationally recognized agriculture information portal, which has business services

and resources for more than 20,000 agribusiness professionals and livestock and crop producers

who use it each day.

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