Montreal Tech Watch

Standoutjobs has won the SEOmoz web2.0 award in the employement and jobs category. Nominees in the category were judged on usability, usefulness, social aspects, user interface & design, and content quality. In all of these criterias, Standoutjobs was ranked ahead of careerbuilder.com and monster, which is a feat, since these last two are 2 heavyweights compared to Standoutjobs, which has just launched earlier this year.

The SEOmoz web2.0 awards is an annual (virtual) event, where nominees are submitted on SEOmoz’s website, with winners chosen by a shortlist of bloggers, entrepreneurs and “business people”. SEOmoz in itself is a search engine optimization consulting company, which may raise potential conflict interests and the question of the impartiality. However, SEOmoz has been a leader in innovation and has during the past years giving back a lot to their “community”, with their actions having impact far beyond seo circles. I credit for instance the company of having validated SEO as a respected profession & trade that will make a difference for your website, through their works, articles and evangelization.

Furthermore, unlike other Internet awards, this award focuses on web2.0 and websites that are trying specifically to leverage user-generated content and new technologies such as using the web as a platform. I think Standoutjobs deserves 100% the award and this should encourage them to make an even better job – i.e. revolutionize the job & online recruiting space :)

Recently, Standoutjobs was also seen as Canada’s Top 20 most innovative company at the CIX. They have also announced new innovative features such as the use of iPaper to handle documents directly in the browser.

Congrats then to Standoutjobs! Great job!