Monster Swipes Right- Buys Jobr to Simplify Job Search

Monster.com announced today it has acquired San Francisco-based startup Jobr, a mobile app widely known as the Tinder for jobs.

While specifics of the deal are private, Jobr raised $2 million in funding in 2014 from investors Tim Draper, Chris Sacca’s Lowercase Capital, and former LinkedIn executive Ellen Levy.

The concept behind Jobr was to take the Tinder “swipe left, swipe right” model and extend it to searching for jobs — to connect job seekers and recruiters in a fashion that speeds up the process for both.

Monster, whose jobs are already featured on Jobr, will immediately begin to integrate the app with Monster’s global talent platform, initially focusing on building out key capabilities such as single sign-on for users and developing Monster membership workflows. The company then aims to extend the Jobr app to its other markets through early 2017.