Springshare, a leading EdTech vendor with 7,500+ educational institutions and libraries as customers, has recently acquired CareerShift, the software platform that helps students with job search, career, and company research. Springshare acquired CareerShift from Student Playbook LLC, which will now focus on the alumni association market.
Founded in 2007 by Slaven Zivkovic, an EdTech entrepreneur with a history of library innovations, Springshare helps libraries and educational institutions elevate their online presence to serve better and engage their users. The company aims to help libraries provide great service to users and enhance their online services. Every client engagement at Springshare is marked by an unwavering devotion to each customer’s success. The firm genuinely enjoys what it does, and it shows. It is passionate about assisting librarians to shine in the eyes of their consumers. Springshare’s exceptional reputation in the library field reflects its dedication to libraries; the platform passionately serves them, allowing them to serve their users truly.
Commenting on the acquisition, Slaven Zivkovic, Founder and CEO of Springshare, said:
We are excited to welcome the CareerShift team to Springshare and we look forward to introducing this amazing platform to our many thousands of institutional customers across North America. The CareerShift platform, with its incredible potential, is an incredibly helpful and valuable tool for job seekers and is already used at hundreds of college and university Career Services offices. The platform also holds great potential with our public libraries – vibrant community hubs – to assist librarians as they seek to help patrons with career and company research.
CareerShift was founded in 2007 to help job seekers access the 70% of jobs that have yet to be published on public job boards. Recognizing the need for more systematic, effective tools for online job hunters, its mission is to level the job playing field and provide equitable access to job opportunities. The organization will operate as an independent brand under Springshare’s corporate umbrella. Springshare will provide investment, resources, and assistance to grow the CareerShift software platform and realize its full potential as a must-have job and career-seeking resource for students and library patrons.
Val Matta, Founder and General Manager of CareerShift, added:
Springshare is the perfect home for this next career chapter of CareerShift. With its deep expertise in the EdTech market and software development and its many thousands of colleges, universities, and public libraries as customers, the Springshare team is the ideal partner to take us to the next level. I am beyond thrilled by this development.
Devin Schain, Founder and CEO of Student Playbook, also commented:
It has been a pleasure working with Val and the CareerShift team, and I look forward to witnessing CareerShift’s continued success, which has already made a significant impact on the lives of job seekers.
With its unwavering dedication, Student Playbook is committed to solving the underemployment crisis facing today’s graduates. Leveraging endorsed marketing can drive higher levels of alumni engagement while helping alumni associations offer the career services alumni want and need. At the same time, the platform is building a scalable pool of placeable talent that recruiters need as young professionals to change jobs frequently.
