Backfill is important for any new job board. Newcomer Job Boardly, a low cost provider of job software, announced a partnership with job aggregator Adzuna. Co-founder Kyle Davidson made the announcement via email. Many job board software platforms have backfill integrations but only a few let you directly monetize it. It nice to see another…
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Job Board News: CulinaryAgents, Survey
Culinary Agents launches HospitalityCareerPaths.com, a new platform with career insights as well as exclusive pay, benefits and skills data. The site also features career paths and advice from over 500 industry leaders in diverse roles to help aspiring, new, and seasoned workers navigate career growth. “Over the years, we’ve shared compensation insights on a case-by-case…
Why LinkedIn’s Freelance Marketplace Sucks
There was an article on TechCrunch last week about how LinkedIn’s “Services Marketplace” aka freelance directory, now has 10 million users and is growing by leaps and bounds. It’s supposed to be a direct response to the growing trend of freelancing and the increasing demand for flexible work arrangements. But if you dig deep into…
How to Spot Spam on Your Job Board
Job boards can be targeted by scammers looking to dupe unsuspecting job seekers. In this post I’ll talk about how to spot and prevent these spammers from ever reaching you. But first here’s a couple of recent studies to see what these spammers are up to… A new report from Heimdal reveals key insights into the growing…
Job Board Headlines: CareerSpan, Athlete Career Transition
The ApplyAI an AI based career guidance platform that I profiled on my Youtube channel (video below) is rebranding to CareerSpan. Careerspan’s AI-powered platform serves as a career companion, addressing the critical need for personalized career guidance in an unpredictable job market. The company’s tools coach professionals to: “Our new name, Careerspan, reflects our mission…
New Design Features for JBoard Announced
JBoard founder Marty Aghajanyan just announced a long awaited update to the job board software platform known as JBoard. It’s a new drag and drop website builder so you can really customize the look and feel of your job board. Most job board platforms are very templated in that they all look like each other…
My Latest Client Launch
I recently helped a staffing pro in the financial services industry launch WholesalerJobs.com, a niche board dedicated to financial “wholesale” jobs which are essentially financial sales positions. He has been a recruiter in this sector for many years and has a big network of these pros at the ready. A job board made sense for…
This AI Job Board Just Got $30 Million in Funding!
Mercor is an AI hiring platform that enables top tech companies and leading AI labs to hire experts at tech companies across software engineering, law, chemistry, finance, and many other professions. VC’s just gave them $30 million to grow the business. They are now valued at a whopping $250 million. The round was led by…
Demo of Smart Job Board’s New AI Features
I asked the founder of Smart Job Board to come on my Youtube show and demo some of their new AI features. The new AI functionality will come at an additional cost for those clients who want it. Apparently running AI like this costs money, which is why they are charging for it. Eventually most…
The Give and Take of Google Traffic
Back in the spring the Google search engine had a major update change affecting many sites including job boards. I had a client that lost MORE THAN HALF of its search traffic. You can see the drop below… The drop off from March to April was dramatic. That downward trend continued through the summer until…