Last week I spoke at the HR Summit in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It’s an annual event for employers put on by Jennifer Schultz who runs the local job board RecruitmentQueen.com. I got a chance to interview her for my RecTech podcast and got her take on her business strategy, her background and how events help…
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Dozens of recruiting related domains available
I’ve just been alerted to 70+ recruiting and HR tech related domains names that are for sale. See them all here. There are some interesting domains here that can relate to a variety of businesses from job boards to recruiting services to HR technology products. Might be worth a look if you are looking for…
AllStarJobs (.com/.ca) is For Sale
A longstanding national job board, AllStarJobs.com and it’s Canadian sister site, AllStarJobs.ca is up for sale. They were founded in 1999. This is a package deal for both website properties in the North American job market. Why Buy? (Chris Russell says) These sites offer a solid level of passive income for the right owner. You…
Monster paid how much to buy the Jobr app?
Back in June Monster.com bought a job search app called Jobr. At the time the purchase price was not released. I have recently learned that they paid $12.5 million dollars. The info comes from this press release put out by their largest shareholder. (I’ll be writing more about that later)… In any case, thats a…
Breaking News: Another job board acquired
Another staffing firm buys a job board. RecruitMilitary.com a longtime job board and job fair company started in 1998 has been purchased. Details here.
Create a job board pricing guide
I cam across a new local job site for Franklin County PA the other day called FranklinCountyWorks. They created a PDF version of their prices that I thought is a good idea. By creating a PDF version you can easily share your sites pricing information and other pertinent details in a way that makes it…
ZipRecruiter CEO explains how their site is evolving
Check out this interview (via the Hiring on All Cylinders podcast) with ZipRecruiter‘s CEO Ian Siegel recorded at the recent HR Tech conference. In it he chats about how their job board is evolving and starting to focus more on quality matching. I think its a good example of how job boards can get better…
New research says most people start search on job boards
There is some new research out of the UK that indicates job boards as the main starting point for job seekers when beginning a job search. A clear message from the research is the online job site is still the number one preferred starting point for candidates, with 68% of respondents saying that they found…
Off to HR Tech
I leave for Chicago today to attend the annual HR technology conference. HR tech is always my favorite show of the year. There will be 400 different vendors in the expo hall (several job boards among them). It’s an “HRtechie’s” dream. Hopefully I’ll come back with a few new clients, lots of business cards and…
New Job Boards
Each month I find and add new job boards to a directory over on CareerCloud. Here’s a few of the newer sites I have found recently. OLD GEEK JOBS – tech jobs for those over 40. Love the focus since ageism is so prominent these days. Started by a 37 yr old techie who felt he…