Press & Media Kit
Contact Philippe Gauvin (@philgo20), matchFWD co-founder, if you have questions or want to know more about us.
Telephone: 514.781.7063
Email: phil@matchfwd.com
Twitter: @matchfwd
In the Press
Apr 16th, 2012
We've integrated the free job board SimplyHired to expand the reach of hiring managers when contacts are not enough (Company Blog)
Apr 2, 2012
Ben Yoskovitz of NextMontreal asks Phil about matchFWD coming out of private beta (Blog)
Mar 30, 2012
Press release of the launch (Press release)
Mar 28, 2012
"[...] une entreprise québécoise, entre dans le créneau pour offrir une solution originale: un outil qui utilise Facebook et Linkedin pour faciliter les mises en relation, mais pour assister pour les connecteurs en ligne." (Blog)
Mar 23, 2012
"The platform facilitates referrals via a job seeker’s social network, finding the “connectors” who can share job postings with their contacts and refer people." (Blog)
Dec 2011 - Mar 2012
matchFWD goes back to private beta
Based on what worked and what did not, we went back to private beta with our users to refine our product vision.
Nov 17, 2011
matchFWD se fait découvrir en France... (Blog)
Jul 15, 2011
Phil interviews with Techstart.tv during the first Montreal International Startup Festival. (Video)
June 20, 2011
Phil presents matchFWD at NewTech Demo 2011. matchFWD has changed a lot since then! (Video)
Jan 19, 2011
Ben Yoskovitz of NextMontreal asks Phil a couple of questions about matchFWD when it was just starting out! (Blog)
Fact sheet
The name
matchFWD: We suggest matches, our users forward them. Everybody is happy. It's extremely hard to pronounce for French-speaking people and we're from Montreal. Go figure.
The deal
matchFWD is a word-of-mouth accelerator for the job world.
It's like
Mailchimp for employment. Sexy product for unsexy market.
The full deal
matchFWD’s social recruiting platform connects hiring managers with talented people through mutual Facebook
and LinkedIn contacts. Our proprietary matching algorithm and sweet UI combined with human intelligence
makes it effortless for Connectors to refer people and share opportunities. It drastically increases the
quantity of referred applicants received by employers. Users help friends grow their business and find
better career opportunities, while building their online reputation and even earn referral bonuses.
The backstory
Founder Céline Charron, a veteran of the employment marketing and recruiting software industry, was looking
for the next generation of online employment product. With an inbox full of
"Would you know a good [inser-job-title]" and "I am looking for a better position.
Can you help me?" she thought there had to be a better way. She teamed up with local Montreal hackers
to a build a smarter way to connect who's hiring and who's available.
The look
We saw no reasons for job seekers and hiring managers to keep using no-fun products with boring palettes. We teamed up with Dribbble master
Alex Deschamps and we're pretty happy with the result.
The gimmick
We count all shares, matches and re-share and we show it on nice looking score cards on every user page.
It helps other users figure out who are the great connectors.
The cost
matchFWD is enthusiastically a free service while in beta.
Product Screenshots
Logos and Images
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