Now that Google Jobs has launched many job boards are scrambling for how to be included. I saw one comment last week that Snagajob saw a 9% increase in traffic from it. Not bad. The new search function will definitely be a boost to the initial list of included sites. I’ve done a lot of…
Author: chrisr2
CareerBuilder finally found a Buyer
Initial reports that CareerBuilder was going to be bought for 1 billion were debunked last week when a private equity group and a teachers pension fund, bought a majority stake in the company. According to an ERE report, the deal values the company around $500 million. Thats about $71 million more than what Monster recently…
JobMount Now Offers Career Sites as a Product
Sites powered by JobMount can now offer branded career sites as part of their offering. This news comes on the heels of Indeed’s recent career site announcement. According to Valerii Verbovetskyi, from Aspen Tech Labs which owns JobMount, “Corporate career site pages are a preferred choice for candidate job searches & applications. Job boards can…
Glassdoor Claims #2 Traffic Spot Among Job Sites
Based on unique users, custom job list sites and the % Change Media Trend Report by comScore Glassdoor now claims 45 million monthly uniques. Indeed.com is of course number one, CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com and ZipRecruiter.com round out the top 5 job boards in the country. I believe Indeed is around 200 monthly uniques but that is…
3rd Party Widgets for Your Job Board
I use a bunch of third party tools to enhance my clients job boards. Here’s a quick list of widgets to add to your own. Feedburner – RSS feed management Feedmikle – RSS feed management with a paid version Statcounter – easy stats Sumo – social sharing/email collection Dlvr.it – social media management I use…
Job Posting Schema – Why Your Job Board Needs It
A SEO expert who I read regularly thinks the Google Jobs results are being driven by sites that employ a certain job level schema. He’s probably right. Google needs job data in a specific format and sites that use it are in a better position to be ranked. In the post he points out two examples…
Facebook Traffic Growth Hack (member only)
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How NOT to Design Your Job Board
Check out this poor excuse for a job board homepage. It sucks. I don’t know how else to describe it.
Job board headlines
Recruit Holdings (parent of Indeed) reported revenue for the full year of (USD $16.1 BILLION), an increase of 15.8% compared with the same period last year. Their EBITDA was $2 billion. [full details] Nationaldriverjobs.com Introduces Drivers’ Job Board for Use In All Over the US. [Another trucking board] StudentHire is a Canada job board for…
Thoughts on Google Jobs
Well, the rumors were confirmed last week when Google’s CEO announced they will be officially entering the recruitment space with their own job search engine at the Google I/O conference. The news in recent months about their jobs API and more recently the Google Hire ATS were clues to their job search ambitions. And just like…