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SonicJobs Wants to Kill the Redirect - the 12 Seconds Where Job Hunts Go to Die
Ninety-five percent of job seekers quit before they finish applying. SonicJobs built an AI agent to do the quitting-worthy part for them - and turned the recruitment industry's worst funnel into its pitch.
Ashby or iCIMS Is Really a Bet on How You Hire
The fashionable ATS and the entrenched enterprise platform solve different kinds of recruiting pain. The right choice starts with your operating model, not a feature checklist.
Your ATS Is Really a Bet on Its Owner
Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, iCIMS and SmartRecruiters increasingly sell the same promise. The better buying question is who controls the roadmap - and what kind of hiring operation you actually run.
Jibe (Acquired by iCIMS)
Jibe was a New York City-based SaaS recruiting technology company founded in 2010 by Joe Essenfeld. It helped large enterprises modernize hiring with Google-optimized career sites, mobile-friendly job applications, recruiting CRM, and machine-learning-driven candidate matching. Used by Fortune 1000 employers such as Johnson & Johnson, Siemens and Comcast, Jibe raised roughly $36.9M across several rounds before being acquired by applicant-tracking leader iCIMS in June 2019, where its technology became the foundation of iCIMS' recruitment marketing product, Attract.
Joe Essenfeld
Joe Essenfeld is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder & CEO of FORA (fora.day), a New York-based AI communication intelligence platform that transforms unstructured enterprise meeting, email, and chat data into actionable leadership insights. He previously founded Jibe, a recruiting technology platform that raised $40M+ and was acquired by iCIMS in 2019, where he served in senior executive roles before launching FORA. FORA raised a $3.8M pre-seed round in January 2024 and counts Converge, GTM Fund, Zelkova, and Everywhere Ventures among its backers.