Job board software does a good job today letting you showcase jobs on your homepage but what about profiles and resumes? Niche boards are great at curating a talent pool of same skill candidates but today’s current crop of software mostly hides resumes and profiles. This is an old way of thinking about job seeker…
The CEO of Hireclix, a recruitment marketing had good things to say about niche boards recently. In an article on SHRM Neil Costa said this; “I do think the niche job boards still provide good value for the markets they serve. They are still important. Dice and ClearanceJobs are good examples of that. I think it’s more…
Recruitment marketers were abuzz last week when someone at Recruitics, the programmatic job advertising company, announced that Google for Jobs is ending its Alpha program that was testing paid job ads within Google for Jobs results. Google has been working with a handful of job marketing agencies to see what they could do around PPC…
A new job marketplace for the energy sector has launched. Its called “EnergyHire“. The site claims to feature a groundbreaking suite of industry-specific machine learning (AI) tools to aid career development. “With this new platform, we are taking a bold step,” said Ryan Vinson, Energy Hire founder and chairman. “We are revolutionizing an old, fragmented…
Flexjobs, the OG of remote job boards which began in 2006 (before remote was a thing) has been acquired by a company called BOLD. No terms of the deal were announced. Flexjobs was started by female founder Sara Sutton. She began the site with a traditional employer revenue model but quickly shifted to a B2C…
A new job board software is on the scene. Here’s a look at the very affordable platform named Job Boardly. It’s a pretty basic platform at this point but its low price will sure attract some customers.
Indeed has recently introduced something called “Specialist Media Networks” to help employers hire for competitive and hard-to-fill roles. Designed to reach more people with specific, in-demand skills, employers can now opt into a network when sponsoring a job on Indeed…I assume for an extra fee. The first Specialist Media Network, Indeed’s Tech Network, distributes an employer’s…
I recently found out about Earnbetter.com a new kind of job search tool that picked up $4.5 million in funding. It features AI resume tools and has backfilled millions of jobs from agency partners. These kinds of platforms are rare when it comes to funding because job seekers don’t like to pay for anything. It…
Hourly job powerhouse Jobcase is now powering local job boards. I found this example from a local news website based in Iowa. The owners of DecorahNews.com, announced the launch of Jobs.DecorahNews.com. “Thanks to new technology implemented on the site, recruitment advertising partners now appear on local and regional job boards, as well as boards across…
AgHires is a long running successful niche job board began in 2014. They offer job advertising/recruiting within the agriculture, agribusiness, food production, bioscience, ag technology, and horticulture industries. They are what I call a “hybrid job board” that uses a business model with job postings and deeper recruiting products like candidate outreach. They sell the…