CareerBeacon a regional job board that serves the Atlantic part of Canada (i.e. New Foundland) has been acquired by Alongside, a Moncton-based human resource technology company. The news comes from the Recruitment Flex podcast. Listen to the news below. You can also read about it on the CareerBeacon site here. Alongside has plans to expand…
U.S. employers plan to continue to bring workers in at rapid pace for the new year according to the latest anniversary edition of the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey of more than 6,000 employers. Hiring intentions strengthen by 26 percentage points from Q1 2021 and remain higher than pre-pandemic for the second consecutive quarter. This is…
Niche job boards are popping up everywhere due to the main challenge of hiring in this difficult labor market. The latest to hit the market is this oilfield job board for the midwest. The site appears to be some sort of WordPress job board theme. Rainmakers Media Group is behind a new regional oilfield job board aimed…
I don’t envy Jobsage, a new employer review site. They have an uphill climb ahead if they plan on taking on the likes on Indeed and Glassdoor. It’s hard for me to imagine the web needs another review site. Glassdoor and Indeed OWN this space plus employers dont really like them. Jobsage is going to…
Ttpster, LLC, a veteran owned small business based out of Arlington, Virginia, has launched TtpsterJobs (www.ttpsterjobs.com), a job board created exclusively for the security industry. It is built upon the Jobboard.io platform. According to the press release; After decades of working in the security industry, Ttpster [pronounced “Tip-ster”], founder and CEO, Kevin O’Neill sought to…
The team at SmartJobBoard is constantly improving their product suite. They seem to launch something new quarterly and are still the best game in town for job board software. They recently announced an integration with Appcast that make it easier for job board owners to populate their job database with full listings direct from the…
Poached, a jobs marketplace for the hospitality industry, has launched a new service called Poached Shifts. Any job marketplace needs to evolve over time so this seems like a good move for the Poached team. Poached aims to solve the industry’s competitive labor market and high employee turnover by providing hospitality employers the flexibility of…
I was chatting with a sales rep from Jobcase, the popular job market for hourly workers and he told me something interesting. They are doing 500 virtual event per week! Considering that last year they only did 2000 total, you can see why that’s a massive increase. Holding your own virtual job fair offers a…
In the past year or two a number of diversity job boards have launched targeting certain underrepresented groups. Employers are definitely increasing their advertising spend with these types of sites. I found this story about the site Black Tech Talent in the Minnesota newspaper recently. (blacktechtalent.org) Minnesota Cup finalist Black Tech Talent matches tech professionals…
Three publicly traded job board companies DHI Group (owner of Dice and ClearanceJobs) and Professional Diversity Networks (they wn several diversity sites) and Ziprecruiter have reported increases in revenue from the last quarter. PDN “Our PDN Network continues to show stability with its third consecutive strong quarter of fiscal 2021. We believe that there is…