Snagajob, the job marketplace for hourly work, announced that Keith Forshew has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. Forshew will lead the expansion of Snagajob’s fast growing Jobs+Shifts offering. he previously oversaw product development at the company. “Our platform for jobs and shifts already connects millions of hourly workers with employers in real time,” said Forshew. “My mission will…
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Job Board Con Set for March 15th
The business of job boards is back for another year! Join Chris Russell and friends as we dissect job board strategies for today’s niche job board owner. Event will be from 2PM ET to 5PM ET with the happy hour shortly thereafter via Zoom. AGENDA Happy Hour Begins at 5:15pm ET via Zoom (link will be sent…
Lensa.com Seeks Job Publisher Partners
Lensa is a U.S. based job search engine looking for job board partners. They have ways to make money for each job seeker signup ($2.25) and per click (approx .35 cents per click). In the video above they explain how it works. I also got their take on Indeed’s PPA program launching next year. Lensa…
New Global Job Board for Startups
A new job board that also features a managed recruiting service has launched from stealth focused on global startup jobs. Ray Gibson, Founder and CEO of Funded.club, says: “We arrived at the need for a job board to serve startups with more resources to screen candidates on their own, while smaller teams still prefer our fully-managed…
The Coming Job Seeker Boom?
On the recent investor call held by Ziprecruiter there was a lot of talk about how layoffs will affect their business going forward. On one hand revenue is going to slow down, but on the other hand, job seeker activity will go up. Its part of life for any job board. So it makes sense…
Job Board Owner Talks Marketing Her Niche Site
Big Shoes Network is a niche community that hosts jobs and internships in advertising, communications, digital, graphic design, marketing, media, PR, social media, web design and development. Key markets include: Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha – Chicago, Northern IL – Minneapolis and all points in between in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The site also provides…
Job Board News Roundup
JobGet Adds Industry Vet to Exec Team JobGet, the mobile app for hourly workers, announced that Dan Sapir has joined the company as General Manager of Enterprise. Since announcing its Series B in June, JobGet has been busy hiring a superstar team to deliver on its vision of becoming the home of the hourly workforce….
Another skills-based matching platform
UnifyWork announced the launch of its “workforce intelligence” (aka skills matching) platform targeting the Cleveland job market. We are seeing a numbing of matching platforms try to take hold in online recruiting. Few however have made any traction in terms of scale. A matching tool doesn’t rely on resumes but rather assessments or entering skills….
Indeed’s Traffic
I was reading Indeed’s parent company’s financial results recently and came across some interesting numbers about their web traffic. These numbers are global. I’m not sure if they include Glassdoor. The info below has been excerpted from their statement. What is the latest update on Unique Visitor traffic to Indeed? The number of monthly Unique…
Interview with Talent.com Founder
Check out this podcast interview with Talent.com co-founder Lucas Martinez to hear how he built this global job aggregator. Part of being a good job board owner is learning from others. So do yourself a favor and give it a listen.