Here are 5 things you can do to immediately get more traffic. 1. Step up your social media. Hire intern for $10/hr, and instruct them to post throughout the day on facebook, twitter and google plus. Share articles related to your niche and general job search advice articles. Scour youtube for funny videos about work/office/jobs…
Author: chrisr2
Jobs boards are becoming ATS’s
Don’t look now but the big job boards are turning into ATS (applicant tracking systems) and the ATS is becoming a job board. Yes they are all morphing into the same thing right before our eyes. As my evidence I’m going to use 2 popular sites: ZipRecruiter and Indeed.com. Indeed started out as an aggregator,…
Is your job board adding connections? (member only)
I was posting a job on Insternships.com the other day and noticed a feature that is becoming more prevalent on job boards—-the ability to to see who you are connected to. This is a feature that is growing in popularity so if you run a job board software company you’ll be better off by getting…
This job board just added video to the mix
CNCJobs.net has launched a job board and resume search engine with support for video (view site). In contrast to text-only job search engines, the website supports both photos and video to help employers and potential employees find the right match. According to the site, these unconventional features will help save employers money while shortening the…
Internships.com just got bought for $11 million
Breaking News off the wires today. CareerArc, the company that also owns TweetMyJobs has sold off one of its big properties, Internships.com to Chegg for 11 million dollars. Here’s the press release. Makes me wonder if their other properties like TMJ are next…?
Fast growing job boards and their revenue numbers
Inc recently came out with their list of the fastest growing companies. The firms in it have to fill out a survey and submit their revenue numbers. This year a number of job boards made the list. Here they are in order of biggest sales to smallest.
Hiring badges are a good idea
I use ZipRecruiter for my day job as a recruiter and they just added a feature that I thought was really cool. BADGES! As you may know I’ve been on a big kick lately about becoming more visual and these ‘We’re hiring‘ badges that are embeddable are a great idea. Not only does it give…
Job boards in the news
Its September so the job board news is coming fast and furious. Here’s a quick roundup. * Jobs2Careers Ranked #131 in Inc. 500 List of Fastest-Growing Privately-Held Companies. Congrats to Bruce Ge for building a good aggregator in the face of Indeed and SimplyHired. READ ABOUT IT HERE * NJmarketingjobs is a new hyper-niche job…
An easy way to improve the effectiveness and share-ability of your job postings (member only)
The web is becoming a more visual place. Just look at whats happening on social media. Linkedin, twitter, instagram and facebook are all about VISUALS. The reason is simple. Pictures make people happy. Pictures are more engaging than a plain old text tweet or a Facebook status update. Linkedin is really going visual, have you…
New wordpress job board theme – WpJobus
There’s a new WordPress job board in town and its name is: WPJobus. It’s $58 and available for download on Themeforest. The developers emailed me recently and since I’m a sucker for new job board technology I was glad to mention it here on Job Board Secrets. Here’s what they claim about the new theme;…