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JobApp Network expands software-based hiring biz, adds 8 employees

Thursday, September 11, 2008

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The company currently calling itself JobApp Network hadn't found its true purpose until recently.

The 11-year-old firm, formerly known as Interactive Voice Data & Fax, was predominantly a project-oriented company. It began by offering fax-on-demand services before creating custom hiring solutions for the 2000 U.S. Census. That contract then lead to an immensely successful Navy recruiting campaign using free calling cards.

Long story short, the Troy-based firm of 30 people has made hiring its niche (hence the name change last year) and thinks it has found its special pupose. JobApp's new software helps place people looking for field or hourly work (think everything from McDonalds to the Census) in jobs.

"It was a market where there weren't any good solutions," says Blake Helppie, CEO of JobApp Network. "It was really underserved."

That is until JobApp Network came along. The firm is proving so successful that the number of businesses using the systems is 20 times as large as it was last year. That led to 100 percent revenue growth last year, and Helppie expects 300-400 percent revenue growth next year.

The revenue growth has been accompanied by employment growth, too. The firm, which usually has 1-2 positions open, has hired eight people since January. It has six jobs open right now.

"We're pretty much always in hiring mode," Helppie says.

All of which are pretty good signs the company has found its calling.

Source: Ken Lang, vice president of sales and marketing for JobApp Network and Blake Helppie, CEO of JobApp Network
Writer: Jon Zemke