Snagajob, the hourly job board has been acquired by JobGet the mobile first hourly job search app. This acquisition brings JobGet’s reach now to over 100 million hourly workers — covering nearly the entire hourly workforce in the United States. Snagajob will operate as a standalone entity within JobGet, allowing employers to continue leveraging Snagajob’s…
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My Latest Project: RemoteFetch
There are a lot of remote job boards online today. And I have counseled folks not to start one because of all the competition that exists. But there are room for certain types of remote sites. Aggregators. I approached my friends at Aspen Tech Labs about leveraging their jobs index combined with their JobMount software…
Demo of JBoard’s New Features
Job board software maker JBoard.io has launched some cool new features and I asked their founder to give us a quick demo. The new drag and drop functionality really helps owners differentiate their designs.
Job Board News: DiversityinEd, MilitaryFriendly
Diversity Recruitment Partners proudly announces the launch of its comprehensive, AI-powered platform, designed to bridge the gap between schools qualified educators of diverse and bilingual backgrounds. Featuring a job board, virtual career fair, and an interview portal with AI-driven candidate-job matching, this groundbreaking platform transforms recruitment for educational institutions nationwide, ensuring alignment of values, skills,…
X/twitter Just Got Less Useful for Job Boards
Ever since Twitter, AKA ‘X‘ is under new ownership, its usefulness for job board traffic seems to have waned and a new announcement is essentially killing one of my strategies for using it as a marketing channel. Up until now I have been using a tool called DLVR.it to automatically post ALL my jobs via…
Featured Job Board: Inter/Arch Jobs
In my continuing quest to highlight the niche job board market, we are taking a look at Inter/Arch Jobs, The job board was launched in May of 2024. I caught up with owner Richard Eib over email to learn more. What’s the origin story? I started working in staffing in 2003 and sold that business…
JobBoardly & Adzuna Team Up for Backfill
Backfill is important for any new job board. Newcomer Job Boardly, a low cost provider of job software, announced a partnership with job aggregator Adzuna. Co-founder Kyle Davidson made the announcement via email. Many job board software platforms have backfill integrations but only a few let you directly monetize it. It nice to see another…
Job Board News: CulinaryAgents, Survey
Culinary Agents launches HospitalityCareerPaths.com, a new platform with career insights as well as exclusive pay, benefits and skills data. The site also features career paths and advice from over 500 industry leaders in diverse roles to help aspiring, new, and seasoned workers navigate career growth. “Over the years, we’ve shared compensation insights on a case-by-case…
Why LinkedIn’s Freelance Marketplace Sucks
There was an article on TechCrunch last week about how LinkedIn’s “Services Marketplace” aka freelance directory, now has 10 million users and is growing by leaps and bounds. It’s supposed to be a direct response to the growing trend of freelancing and the increasing demand for flexible work arrangements. But if you dig deep into…
How to Spot Spam on Your Job Board
Job boards can be targeted by scammers looking to dupe unsuspecting job seekers. In this post I’ll talk about how to spot and prevent these spammers from ever reaching you. But first here’s a couple of recent studies to see what these spammers are up to… A new report from Heimdal reveals key insights into the growing…