Job boards and professional networks. Aggregate openings; make the candidate searchable.
It is a product you buy.
It exists to relieve Get a job without having had one. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Smartphones and internet and AI models and inference. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
5 organisations in this map sell it, 4 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionJob boards and professional networks
- FrictionGet a job without having had one
- Life phaseEarly adulthood
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inUncertainty
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | $3.5T | public · MSFT | LinkedIn, Teams, Xbox |
| Recruit Holdings (Indeed | $100B | public · 6098 | Indeed, Glassdoor |
| Randstad | $8B | public · RAND | staffing, Monster |
| Handshake | $3.5B | private | college recruiting network, internships |
| ZipRecruiter | $0.5B | public · ZIP | job marketplace |