Almost 10 years ago on this very blog I published a post about the value proposition of niche based job boards. In that post I quoted 3 sources; Forrester Research: “Local Sites Matter. Geography is more important to job seekers than industry focused sites. Monster.com is the most popular career site, but local sites place second…
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New Job Board Launches
Here’s a roundup of new launches in the job board space. Frontline Education, a leading provider of school administration software for the K-12 education community is excited to announce the relaunch of K12JobSpot integrating the best capabilities of the largest K-12-specific job site with the former Teachers-Teachers job board and educator profiles for improved ease of use and significantly…
How to Set Your Job Post Prices
One of the most common questions I hear from job board owners is how to price their site. For me this greatly depends on several factors including; Country you operate in Niche you service Amount of competition Your reach COUNTRY If you operate in the USA job post prices here are among the lowest in…
Lensa is Testing a Bounced Traffic Revenue Widget for Job Publishers
My pal Joe Stubblebine, formerly of Beyond/Nexxt and now at Lensa.com emailed me last week with some news of a new revenue widget they are working on. This widget doesn’t list jobs on your site but rather shows a user relevant jobs from Lensa only if they click the back button when leaving your site. Here’s how…
SmartJobBoard and JobBoard.io Release Updates
The top 2 hosted job board software platforms released some cool new features last week. SmartJobBoard added several new features including a carousel for the homepage, SEO improvements and more. Watch my screencast to learn more. Jobboard.io released a great new feature to make more sales. The make a slew of small upgrades in early…
Thinking about designing your own job board?
I have spoken to a number of people over the years who have made a certain big mistake when they launched their site. They paid a web design firm with no experience building job boards to do it. Needless to say, these firms tend to build sites that are not quite optimized for job board…
Job Boards in the News
Google Cloud Signs More Job Board Partners RecruitMilitary is collaborating with Google Cloud to change the way jobs are found by military-trained talent. By working with Google Cloud to integrate their search and artificial intelligence into our job board, RecruitMilitary can take the guesswork out of the job search process. These enhanced search capabilities will…
New Ebook: the Big List of Backfill Providers
I have been getting a lot of inquires lately about companies who provide job backfill to publishers. So I spent a few hours putting together the ultimate list of providers that allow you to each money though listing their job inventory, Its just $15 bucks. Buy it below or click here. Loading…
Archinect Introduces ‘Jobs Visualizer’
Its my job to point out interesting things in the job board world. Case in point is the new ‘Jobs Visualizer‘ is one of those. It is a visual way of browsing employers who are hiring on Archinect, a site for architecture jobs. With Archinect Jobs Visualizer, the design work produced by the employers takes center stage….
How to Improve Your ‘Drive by’ Ecommerce Postings (member only)
I received a message from new member who asks; Do you have anything on basic SEO tactics we can implement? This would be for the job seeker and employer side of the job boards we power for our newspaper partners. We have about dozens of sites and the goal is to grow e-commerce self service revenue. Its a great…