I used to hate networking. Early in my career I was shy and introverted but once I had a business of my own it forced me to “get out there”. Early in the history of AllCountyJobs I got involved with the local chapter of SHRM in order to network with HR managers in my area….
Author: chrisr2
Likes on job postings dont work
I have been wondering lately if social share butons on job postings are worth it. So I went to arguably the webs most social savvy audience (Mashable) and took a look at their job board. I clicked through the top few pages of recent listings and most jobs had ZERO likes. A few had 1….
The one thing you need to do if you are niche job board (member-only)
You need to explicitly say who you are/what you do. I was recently tipped off to a new niche job site called Harri.com. When I first went to it I saw this home page. Ok its a nice looking site but what the NICHE do they serve? It is not immediately clear that they serve the restaurant…
Peek inside one of my consulting reports (member-only)
Here’s a look inside one of my consulting reports for a recent niche job board owner that I met with. We went over these on a one hour skype call and I thought it would make a good content piece for this blog. If you have any questions about any of these just let me…
Why doesn’t this niche job board exist? (member only)
I was at a conference recently when another job board owner posed this question to me. Why is there no other site that targets part-time jobs other than Snag-a-Job? Its a good question and one I have been wondering about myself. A few years back I started looking at that space. Here’s what I found….
Questions from a young entrepreneur
I got a nice email from an NYU student about being an entreprenuer. I thought I would share since they were great questions. Q. I’m toying with the idea of quitting grad-school and going full-time on my 4 month old startup..what is your philosophy on the value of education in school vs education via building…
Job boards aint dying
Its time for another one of those posts. Yes every year you see it in the blogs and twittersphere saying that job boards are dead. Phooey! Job boards are alive and well, especially the niche ones. Just look at this recent source of hire study from ATS vendor SilkRoad. For external hires, job boards lead…
Metrics matter
One of the best things you can do for your job board clients is to prove to them your site works. One way to do this is through metrics. Recently on JobsinSocialMedia.com (Jobamatic site) I took a screenshot of the total number of views for the last 15 jobs. Then I published it on a…
Defender of job boards and other musings (audio)
Check out my interview from earlier today on the HR Examiner Radio show with John Sumser. In it you can hear me talk about social, mobile and of course job boards. Listen to internet radio with HRExaminer Radio on Blog Talk Radio
Before you launch (member only)
Before you launch a job board (or any site) I think its important to lay some groundwork before you go live. Specifically there are two important marketing tactics you should employ. A blog and an email list. Before I launched CareerCloud.com in January of this year I began by setting the domain to Launchrock so…