services 1 founded 2009 founders felipe navio and juan urdiales area served worldwide key people felipe navio co ceo and juan urdiales co ceo felix ruiz hernandez executive chairman number of employees 200 1 website http www.jobandtalent.com jobandtalent is a job marketplace based in madrid with offices in london bogota and mexico city . 2 3 the company was founded in 2009 by felipe navio and juan urdiales . 4 jobandtalent matches professionals with relevant job opportunities using an algorithm . 5 jobandtalent has over 10 million registered users and around 450 000 new users join each month . 6 not in citation given contents 1 how it works 1.1 getting started 1.2 algorithm 1.3 privacy 2 history 2.1 origin 2.2 expansion 2.3 recognition 3 see also 4 external links 5 references how it works edit getting started edit users who are looking for a job can sign up to jobandtalent using their email address or via facebook . to complete their profile users manually enter their past professional information . once a user s professional information is registered jobandtalent s matching algorithm identifies job offers that are suitable to the user s experience and preferences . when a job match is made users are notified via mobile and can then apply to the role . recruiters and companies can chat and hire employees . 7 algorithm edit to match candidates with relevant offers jobandtalent uses an algorithm developed by data scientists and engineers . the technology combines different algorithms that interact in a learning to rank function introducing machine learning techniques to fine tune the matches . the algorithm takes learnings from the users and their interaction within the platform . the effectiveness is measured by a self created metric atr application through rate that measures the rate of applications that the algorithm generates per job view . 5 privacy edit for the candidates who sign up using facebook no private photographs or personal protected information such as status updates or job searching activity is accessible . 4 employers are only able to access a candidate s professional profile . 8 however there have been reports concerning the email invitations sent on the behalf of new users . 9 history edit origin edit felipe navio and juan urdiales started jobandtalent to make job searching easier for professionals . 4 urdiales previously co founded a textile enterprise called pluscuamperfecta . 4 navio worked at consulting firm mckinsey and as an advisor for social networking site tuenti . navio and urdiales recognized that although professionals were interested in new job opportunities they didn t have the time to search job boards and listings online . since launching jobandtalent in 2009 the company has worked on several approaches to this problem ; from career guides to integrating social platforms and most recently incorporating the job matching technology currently used . 10 expansion edit in october 2011 jobandtalent opened a new office in barcelona with albert climent as founder of catalonian office . previously albert climent assisted with the development of zyncro another barcelona based successful start up holding the position of sales director . 11 in january 2012 jobandtalent opened an office in london the first international expansion step for the company . 4 12 on 22 july 2013 jobandtalent announced they had completed their first round of funding raising 3.3 million . 10 in july 2014 jobandtalent closed a subsequent 14 million series a funding round . 13 as a result of that investment which was the biggest in spain jobandtalent was able to bolster their growth in europe and latin america . the company s investors include qualitas equity partners kibo ventures fundaci n jos manuel entrecanales and business angels pelayo cortina koplowiz nicol s luca de tena and alfonso villanueva . 14 in that same july felix ruiz co founder of tuenti was appointed executive chairman of jobandtalent . 15 ruiz began his relationship with jobandtalent as stakeholder having felt attracted to the project and market . later ruiz became integrated with the brand and now oversees business growth . in may 2015 jobandtalent secured another funding round of 25 million in effect extending its series a investment which was closed back in july 2014 . 16 17 the investor group lead by pelayo cortina koplowitz increased its participation and co invested with the previous investors qualitas equity partners kibo ventures fundaci n jos manuel entrecanales and business angel nicol s luca de tena who recently exited la nevera roja . that same year jobandtalent opened offices in both mexico and colombia . in 2016 jobandtalent partnered with spanish broadband and telecommunications company telefonica . the deal struck allowed telefonica customers exclusive access to the jobandtalent app and the app came pre installed on various service provider products . 18 in june 2016 jobandtalent completed a 42 million series b round led by atomico the global technology venture capital firm set up by skype founder niklas zennstr m. 19 20 recognition edit since its inception jobandtalent has been recognized with multiple awards such as the joven empresa innovadora award in 2011 21 the best startup in the internet category in the 2011 startup competition 22 and the creative online marketing award 2016 generalist in the onrec recruitment awards . 23 it was also named one of the best spanish start up companies of 2012 by the financial times 12 the spanish start up of the year 2013 by the next web 24 and the best start up in madrid in 2014 by actualidad economica 25 see also edit employment website list of employment websites external links edit jobandtalent.com jobandtalent entry on crunchbase references edit a b job and talent . linkedin . spanish jobandtalent seeks expansion into overseas markets in q1 2012 . thefreedictionary.com 29 november 2011 unreliable source not in citation given http m2m.tmcnet.com news 2011 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recruitment platform nabs 14m . techcrunch.com 10 july 2014 jobandtalent raises 14m for recruitment platform . venturebeat.com 10 july 2014 el fundador de tuenti nuevo presidente de jobandtalent . expansion.com 23 july 2014 jobandtalent gets 25m to steer its linguistic analysis recruitment platform toward the u.s. . techcrunch 27 may 2015 jobandtalent racks up 25 mln . pehub 27 may 2015 money market 2 february 2016 . telef nica and jobandtalent partner to deliver next generation job marketplace to telef nica customers worldwide . monet market . retrieved 6 may 2016 . shead sam 14 june 2016 . a jobs website has received 42 million from a vc fund set up by one of skype s cofounders . business insider . retrieved 14 june 2016 . lomas natasha 14 june 2016 . jobandtalent gets 42m series b after pivoting to mobilize hiring for smes . techcrunch . retrieved 14 june 2016 . the madrid company job and talent achieves the young innovative company award 2011 in zaragoza . yahoo news 24 november 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