Voices, the #1 voice job marketplace, has launched Project Marketplace™, a new way for clients to discover and hire voice talent. Project Marketplace will provide creative directors, agencies, casting directors, video producers, video and content producers with another way to hire talent, discover new voices, and create relationships on Voices. “Today we’re excited to bring…
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Rule #1 of Job Board Fight Club
I came across a press release last week for a new niche job board. So I couldn’t help but to take a look. Problem is it broke my #1 rule of launching a job board. Watch to find out.
SEO for Job Boards
SEO is a bit of a lost art today among new job board owners. They understand little about how it works and how long it takes to rank for keywords. I hope to shed some light on it in this member only post. To me job board SEO comes down to mainly 4 activities: On…
How Task Rabbit Got It’s Start
Part of being a good job board entrepreneur is studying how other marketplaces came to be. I am always drawn to the origin stories of sites like Craigslist, Ziprecruiter and others in our space. These stories offer valuable tips and trick for anyone building a two-sided marketplace. TaskRabit is another interesting story to note. On…
Job Board Headlines
Danish job board Jobindex announced that it has submitted a complaint to the EU Commission and has asked them to investigate Alphabet over the launch of its ‘Google for Jobs’ service in Denmark. According to Jobindex, the complaint to the Commission is aimed at initiating a case against Alphabet over Google’s ‘anti-competitive abuse’ of its…
Job boards can now license this Dutch company’s programmatic advertising platform
DPG Media is launching Aimwel, its new software-as-a-service company. Fully owned by DPG Media, Aimwel is the publisher’s first international B2B SaaS company built for job boards. Aimwel’s new marketplace advertising technology platform fully automates marketing campaigns for the recruitment and staffing industry At the moment they have job board users active IN NL, UK and…
Adzuna CEO Talks About Recent Acquisition
I conducted a zoom interview with Doug Monro the CEO if Adzuna about their recent acquisition if US based Getwork.com.
Job Board News Bytes: Adzuna, Maryland Jobs, Auto Careers, Climate Pros
Adzuna, the smarter job search engine, is pleased to announce the acquisition of leading US enterprise job search engine Getwork. The Getwork team, led by President Brad Squibb, will work alongside the 100-person strong Adzuna business, bringing together decades of job search expertise and accelerating Adzuna’s growth in North America. The acquisition will combine the quality…
Death of a Job Board
A job board has died recently. 70MillionJobs.com which focused on helping formerly incarcerated seekers to find work is closing its doors. Apparent victim of the pandemic. The founder sent me the letter he sent to users which you can read below. By sharing, perhaps you can learn something from it. The loss of 70Million leaves…
Does your job board need a podcast?
Saw this news from job board iHire last week, the are launching a job seeker podcast. iHire recently announced they are now publishing a podcast called “Find Your Niche: A Career Podcast“. It will be a bi-weekly show that explores the journey of various job seekers form all walks of life. Each 25-minute episode of…