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…
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…
Part of the allure of a job board business is the fact that much of its operation is or can be automated. Since most job board operate as a self service business people can join and transact with the site without a human. Built in to most job board software is a mix of transactional…
I spotted two new job boards this week. Here’s a look at what niches they target. Inclusively for Disabled Persons (U.S.) Inclusively, a human-first employment platform built by the disability community to connect candidates with disabilities to inclusive companies and careers, is excited to announce its recent launch on October 13, 2020. Inclusively’s proprietary job matching…