A reader of mine emailed me last week to point out a tech job board out of Poland that has an interesting take on design. Here’s a quick screencast of NoFluffJobs. They take a minimal design approach and make it easy as heck to scan and apply to postings.
Author: chrisr2
Job Board Newsletters
I have come across a few clients lately who haven’t taken advantage of emailing their employers. Every job board should be communicating with its employers at least once a month. In this screencast you’ll see a good example of one from Mac’s List a local job board out of Oregon. Email is a channel you own…
Making Your Job Description Pages More Scannable
The look of job description pages across job boards and applicant tracking systems hasn’t changed much since jobs were online. They are generally full of text and way too long. But I think its time for job publishers to come up with some new designs that make them more “scannable” for the web. I’m not…
New site for Robot Jobs
A new niche job board has been spotted in the wild, this one targets robots/AI/connected devices. Robots.jobs is powered by the Career Leaf platform. There is an immediate problem of filling positions at companies developing or building robots across the USA. Robots.jobs is a new tool for matching specialized talent with employers in robotics, artificial intelligence, and related…
FireBrickGroup Wants to Help Boards Monetize Resumes
The team over at FireBrickGroup is looking for job boards to partner with. Specifically around email alerts. Send them your daily feed of your jobs and jobseekers. They will create daily behavioral job alerts for your jobseekers with up to 3 of your jobs at the top positions at no cost to you. They will then match our backfill…
This Niche Job Market Just Got $60 Million in Funding!
Wow. A company called RigUp which operates a mobile/web platform that connects energy industry professionals to employers in the oil and gas field just raised $60 million in new funding. That has got to be a record for a niche job board. RigUp is an example of the next generation of job boards that are…
What’s a job domain worth?
Last week a surprise email hit my inbox. It was from GoDaddy telling me one of the domains I had listed on their auction site had sold and I was about to receive a few thousand bucks. Not bad for a domain that I spent $100 bucks on years ago. My investment finally paid off….
Two Niche Job Boards Making Headlines
Over the past few weeks I had the chance to interview two niche job boards that are doing good things in today’s job market. The MOM Project helps moms re-enter the the workforce and 70MillionJobs helps those with criminal histories to get hired. These sites are great examples of filling a niche while having a…
Tech Job Board Acquired
Technical Integrity announced today that it has acquired Find My Flock, a tech focused job board out of Colorado. Technical Integrity was founded by CEO Dave Mayer in 2010 to turn the recruiting industry on its head. “In 2010 we set out to build a new paradigm. We lead an ethical revolution in recruiting with a transparent,…
A Warning to Job Board Software Vendors
In case you haven’t noticed the world of online recruiting is a vastly different one from whence job boards first emerged. The sheer amount of ways to recruit online, from sourcing tools to aggregators, has created a vast ocean of choices for employers to find talent. This means that if your recruiting tool, whatever purpose it serves,…