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…
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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…
Job Board PR
A press release can be an effective way to get some traffic and attention to your site. Last week DZone launched. It’s a job board for developers. The news that they launched is nothing earth shattering but it worked to get them noticed. The story was picked up by at least 2 outlets in the…
Why Job Boards Need to Hire Sourcers
If you run a job board you should know that your #1 task is to generate quality applies to your clients jobs. They want candidate flow. If they don’t see at least 10 applications from your board in the first week of it being posted you are at great risk from disappointing that customer and…
Whats New In Job Boards
I have been traveling extensively the past few weeks so It’s been hard to get posts out. TA Tech in Chicago was a great weekend and good to see some old industry friends and meet some new ones too. Got the chance to meet Mac from MacsList, Joe from WNYjobs.com and of course guys like…