JobVid.com - The Service Provider Search Engine

One of Tufts University's business plan competition winners, Jobvid.com is a powerful service provider search engine. The site boast over 75 job categories and 1,600 job specific skills that are fully searchable from a suggest drop-down menu, allowing site visitors to find exactly the right service provider for any job at hand. JobVid.com is also the first service provider website to strongly encourage personal statement videos, in which service providers introduce themselves and/or display essential job skills to prospective customers and clients.

JobVid.com allows service providers to create a profile under each relevant job category and then automatically links these profiles together so that site visitors can appreciate the full scope of service providers' capabilities. A fully customizable 3 month calendar and photo gallery round out the profile of each service provider.

The website is completely free and site visitors contact service providers directly. Randomized email addresses (a la Craigslist) ensure service provider privacy while still allowing site users to send messages directly to them through their personal e-mail accounts.

“JobVid provides users with a platform to advertise their skill sets as well as their personalities through creating compact, visually appealing profiles. Imagine an online job-classified website designed to enable self-expression and individualization. Anyone in need of a particular talent or service is able to access this database of profiles and efficiently find the right person with the right skills. JobVid came out of the need to fill the gap for an under-represented audience. The company focuses on matching part time, contract, and freelance service providers with people in need of such services. Service providers' online profiles contain essential background information (name, gender, age, years of experience, and expected compensation), short descriptions of their capabilities, photographs, brief personal statement videos, and updatable schedules of availability. JobVid distinguishes itself from other online job-oriented classified websites by utilizing less text so that users can navigate the site with ease.”

Service providers of any type can easily be found through this site, and also be contacted directly.

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