The beginning of the year is usually a busy time for job board launches. Here are some of the most recent ones I’ve seen with a little bit of commentary.
JOBCRANK – “JobCrank.com, is a national job board that specializes in helping recruiters, small businesses, and individuals connect with future employees or freelance contractors. JobCrank.com is the one of the web’s leaders in delivering job opportunities through social networking partners and hundreds of job boards nationwide.
Companies and recruiters can post their jobs at a very low rate of $4.99 per basic job listing. Companies and recruiters also have the ability to increase their job listings exposure by selecting from one of three job listing packages.”
MY TAKE: National job boards like this will never make it. They’ll never overtake Monster or CB. May be able to squeek out some revenue from the Indeed backfill but not much else. Good price point though…$4.99 per job.
ACCOUNTANCY AGE JOBS – “Leading business-to-business publisher Incisive Media has announced a new jobsite for Accountancy Age Jobs. The move is part of a newly formed partnership with AccountingWeb to provide a recruitment solution with a collective reach to 385,000 individuals in the accountancy market.
Accountancy Age Jobs has adopted the latest version of the award winning Madgex Job Board Platform. The jobsite includes Madgex’s next generation CV database, CV Search and Match, an intelligent search technology which matches recruiter needs with the most relevant candidates. The two new sites will offer recruiters increased reach to accountancy professionals.”
MY TAKE: A global job board powered by Mdgex one of the nicer designed software providers. Love the credit card images on the home page! Says we are open for business. Too many logos on the home page, looks a little cluttered.
EXPATHIRING – “ExpatHiring.com unveiled a new online niche job board this week, focusing solely on the international employment of expats and bilingual professionals around the world. ExpatHiring.com is more than simply a job board for expat jobs – it is a whole new experience in expatriate recruitment. The website aims to provide expat job seekers with everything needed to help find genuine international job opportunities and make the subsequent relocation overseas much easier.”
MY TAKE: Well designed user interface with nice graphics. Not sure how big of a niche this is but looks like a strong contender. Really impressed with the design
Hi Chris,
Just a minor correction to your article… JobCrank.com has been around since April 2008. I know its not as well known, so I can understand the mistake on thinking its new. We are a small company, and dont have the marketing budget of the larger boards. So our growth is primarily organic. Thanks for the mention though!
-Jason Bramble, JobCrank Inc.
thanks jason, my google alert must have sent me an old press release…good luck
Chris, You missed this one CompanyAirplaneJOBS.com. We are a niche board focusing on aviation. What makes this site so different is members produce portfolios which include their word document résumé, but they can build a HTML résumé by using the form as well. Job seekers can be listed in the contractor section of the site. Within the portfolio, we have a pre- video interview, viewable documents, a profile summary, and an executive style photograph.
In addition, employers can schedule live video interviews with the job seekers and all of it is completed through the site. Job seekers can join our video/chat networking rooms in addition to our forum.
Employers can insert promotional videos about their company within the job posting. This site has a lot and we are very proud of it. But it did take two years to design, build, and get it launched. We are more than happy with the success of the web site and we have some big hitters in the aviation industry that support the board as well.
Hey Chris. As always, enjoy reading your content. I just wanted to throw JOBANCY (http://www.jobancy.com) out there. We’re a job board, custom built from the ground up, that launched 1/1/11 — we only do part-time jobs.
Focusing on adults, as well as college students and teens, JOBANCY will bridge the gap between employers and jobseekers looking specifically for part-time work through their newly launched internet website. A wide variety of opportunities will be available, including temporary, contract, seasonal and internship positions.
Hi Chris, I stumbled upon your blog and been enjoying it. I ended up signing up for jobamatic. What I can’t figure out so far is how do you have multiple pages on your job boards. I looked around everywhere in the configuraton but all I see is the setting to show the number of jobs. It makes the page get longer but does not add more pages. What am i missing here? I would appreciate if you guide me in the right direction.
Hey there, thats because you cant add pages within the jobamatic system. You only have control over the header/footer. In order to have ‘multiple pages’ you’ll have to set a subdomain for jobamatic while the root domain is hosted elsewhere. See this example where I host the home page and the rest is on jobamatic.
http://www.dutchesscountyjobs.net/
Heres my site http://www.gigajobs.com.au a niche job site for IT professionals. Its goal is to be a smart job board. once you register/post a job it has some great features for candidates and recruiter.
Ie you can search for available candidates using specific criteria (Keywords, Desired rate, Location, Experience etc)
Candidates can also broadcast their availability the minute the become available to recruiters.
We also offer a messaging facility to contact candidates directly.
Would be good to get some feedback. on contact@gigajobs(dot)com(dot)au
Thanks Chris!