Australia’s OneShift acquires mature jobs board Adage

Australia’s online employment market got a bit more friendly to job seekers ages 45 and over today with the announcement that OneShift, one of the country’s top job-seeking sites, has acquired Adage.

Adage is an Australian jobs board startup serving job seekers over 45. As more and more older Australians enter the labor market, there is a need for some way to connect them with employers. And since Australia’s elderly labor force is only expected to increase in the coming years, OneShift’s investment in the Adage team makes a lot of sense. Theirs is a market that is expanding.

Fans of Adage need not fear the acquisition: Adage will continue to be free for anyone above 45 who is looking for a job. But it looks like it won’t be operated separately from the larger OneShift community. For the moment at least, visiting Adage’s URL redirects users to the OneShift front page.

OneShift, which launched just a couple of years ago, now features more than 412,000 job seekers and 35,708 businesses. The company also recently expanded to New Zealand, so it’s likely that Adage could be on its way over sometime in the not-so-distant future, too.

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