So this past weekend Google sent me an email congratulating my site (EvilHRjobs.com) for achieving 1,800 clicks in the past 28 days. I was happily surprised, so I went to my analytics to see what the spike looked like. But I found no such spike in traffic. I checked both my web stats and for…
There has been a lot of speculation in our industry about Google for Jobs and the impending paid job ad program. Currently they are testing paid job ads with a few big players like LinkedIn. Rumor is that it will soon be opened up to more publishers but the question is how? As of now,…
Here’s a quick roundup of new job boards being launched. Amid the state’s ongoing teacher shortage, The Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) has launched an online job board called “Educate401” specifically to recruit more teachers and counselors. The site offers a certification roadma” and other resources to help candidates in the hiring process to make it more…
A quick round up of job board news bytes…. BlueForge Alliance (BFA) today announced the relaunch of BuildSubmarines.com, the central hub to recruit thousands of workers to build and sustain the next generation of U.S. Navy submarines. The newly enhanced site now integrates ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace, to better connect interested candidates with the Navy’s Submarine…
A question I often get is if you should build your own job board instead using off the shelf software. My answer is generally no, you shouldn’t build. Unless… If you have a very specific type of job board in mind with features you don’t typically find on existing software you will need to build…
JBoard, a saas based job board software provider has announced its latest updates. Learn more at https://jboard.io/. Embeddable Jobs Widget With this tool, you can now generate a scrollable job listing widget and display it on other websites with just a few clicks. (See image 1 below) Registration Wall This exciting new release will help…
I’ve worked with hundreds of niche job boards over the years. The good ones are laser focused on their niche and just ‘look like’ they work. A good logo, hero image, solid domain, enough job listings are the basics you have to get right. Beyond that, its really about sticking with it for the long…
Salesjobs.com, launched in June 1997, was the first sales employment site ever built and today the largest in the world with over 739,404 sales jobs and more sales resumes, and sales traffic than all its niche competitors combined. Sales Jobs Inc. CEO Eric Ruiz announced last week its first phase roll out of “SJ- 10.0” the most technologically advanced sales employment…
This week CareerBuilder announced they will be adding pay for performance job advertising. They are the first other national job board to follow indeed’s lead. So will other players take the bait and do the same? I’ve been wondering about that since indeed made their announcement. The release from CB says this; Pay For Performance stands…
I recently discovered Energy Freelance, the first and only tech-enabled hiring platform that connects oil and gas companies and mineral interest owners to nationwide professionals with land, petroleum engineering, geology, and other industry-specific areas of expertise. With access to the Energy Freelance network of professionals, companies can create projects, hire qualified freelancers in minutes, and…