CareerBuilder and Seattle news station KIRO 7 have teamed up to spread awareness of local job openings, so that people who have lost work due to COVID-19 can find in-demand jobs in their area. KIRO 7 has embedded CareerBuilder’s job search on their website, kiro7.com/jobs and it is promoting the feature during its televised broadcast, calling viewers’ attention to the industries hiring right now and the postings available on CareerBuilder. “Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, KIRO 7…
A reader wrote in to ask; I’m a regular reader of your Job Board Secrets newsletter. I’ve recently noticed on the WP Job Manager blog that they are suspending support for Indeed and ZipRecruiter publisher API programs. It would be interesting to read your thoughts in the newsletter about why it happened, and what it means for small/new…
Some niches are better than others to go into if you are launching a job board. There are a variety of ways to analyze that such as the growth of jobs in the niche and the amount of other competitors serving that space. TradeHounds a company out of Boston is taking on the construction niche….
Monster Says They Are the Largest Job Board in Singapore Despite all the unknowns, government bodies, businesses, and communities in Singapore have invested heavily in upskilling human resources and strengthening the local economy. As Asia’s leading job site, Monster supported COVID-19 impacted employees through specific campaigns aimed at finding alternate employment at the earliest and is committed…
Tech job site Dice.com has enabled messaging on its platform. Messaging of candidates is a solid feature for a job board if you have enough candidates in your database for it to be used. The problem for Dice is that this feature wont do much to boost sales. According to the latest earnings report from…
One mistake I see new job board owners make is launching their site too quickly before its ready for prime time viewing. That’s why I recombined doing a soft launch, particularly if you have a custom built job board. You’ll want to get any bugs/kinks ironed out before telling the world. According to Wikipedia, a…
A new local job board recently launched aimed at helping people find jobs in Texas, it’s called Texas Jobs Hub. “The big name job boards don’t have the Texas-focus that we do,” commented a spokesperson from Texas Jobs Hub. “We are connected to our community here in the Lone Star state and are very motivated to…
This is a member only content piece. Here are five things you can do to immediately get more traffic. 1. Step up your social media. Hire intern who’s good at social media and instruct them to post throughout the day on facebook, twitter and LinkedIn. Share articles related to your niche and general job search advice…
World’s largest network for ambitious millennial women Girlboss launches Girl Boss Jobs powered by JobBoardFire Launched in 2017 by Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, Girlboss has over 2M monthly visitors – making it the world’s largest community of ambitious millennial women. It’s now launched Girl Boss Jobs in partnership with Job Board Fire to connect…
If you have a blog with traffic, you have a good use case for adding a job board to the mix. Blogs, a or many kinds of niche topic websites can easily add jobs to their sites using simple plugins like a Ziprecruiter search box, a WordPress job board theme with backfill or a cloud…