Mission

Fair hiring - diverse, equitable and transparent

Our Story

JobWiz was started by Cheryl and Tim, a married couple of software engineers, who want to help people find jobs with the perks they care about.

Four years ago, Cheryl was looking for a software engineer job in Singapore. She knew what she wanted. She wanted to work for a small tech startup making a positive impact, not too far from where she lives. She cared about flexible hours, having the option to work from home, getting enough days off to travel regularly, and not taking a pay cut. She thought that finding which companies offer what she was looking for would be easy.

She was wrong.

Most of the job portals have no way of filtering on any of the things she cares about and the job portals that have a few filters are not useful because most of their job listings don't contain the important information and are being filtered out.

Her next plan was to read each of the hundreds of relevant job descriptions but she quickly discovered that the job descriptions were not helpful. They were bulleted lists of responsibilities and requirements without any of the information that she was looking for. She understood that for each of these hundreds of companies, she would have to spend lots of time reading the career pages, Glassdoor reviews and asking friends and friends of friends about their experience.

Cheryl and Tim discussed about the problem. It was clear that it would take hundreds of hours to gather this data. They thought that "There must be others like us" and decided that instead of keeping this data private in a spreadsheet, they would put it on a public website. This is how JobWiz was born.

We believe that company perks and salary ranges should be public. We believe that finding companies that offer the perks you care about shouldn't be that hard. We believe that making salary bands public will reduce the gender pay gap. We believe that making perks public will help companies find the talents they're looking for. We believe it will bring fairness and transparency.

If your company is hiring in Singapore, you can sign up on our Employers website. If you'd like to discuss about making company perks and salary ranges public at your company, please contact us here.

Timeline

March 2018

The beginning

Cheryl and Tim start JobWiz to help Cheryl with her job search.

September 2018

Private launch

JobWiz goes live with a bit more than 100 software engineer job listings. There are only 2 users: Cheryl and Tim.

January 2019

Public launch

Cheryl and Tim start talking about JobWiz with their friends and friends of friends. JobWiz has more than 300 software engineer job listings.

Rocket
March 2019

10,000+ monthly page views

It only took 3 months for the word to be spread and for JobWiz to reach 10,000 monthly page views! Most of JobWiz users are from Singapore.

Singapore Website Awards
May 2019

First Award

JobWiz wins the public's favorite website award (commercial) in May 2019 from Singapore Website Awards.

Learn more
January 2020

Employers website

The Employers website is launched. Companies can directly post their job ads on JobWiz if they include the salary ranges and share their perks.

Visit Employers website
April 2020

Career Pages

JobWiz launches Career Pages. Companies can share about their unique culture and add pictures of their team, office and events.

Singapore FinTech Festival
November 2021

JobWiz starts a partnership with the Singapore FinTech Festival and builds a dedicated job portal.

Visit SFF job portal