A quick round up of job board news bytes…. BlueForge Alliance (BFA) today announced the relaunch of BuildSubmarines.com, the central hub to recruit thousands of workers to build and sustain the next generation of U.S. Navy submarines. The newly enhanced site now integrates ZipRecruiter, a leading online employment marketplace, to better connect interested candidates with the Navy’s Submarine…
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Should you build your own job board?
A question I often get is if you should build your own job board instead using off the shelf software. My answer is generally no, you shouldn’t build. Unless… If you have a very specific type of job board in mind with features you don’t typically find on existing software you will need to build…
JBoard makes several updates
JBoard, a saas based job board software provider has announced its latest updates. Learn more at https://jboard.io/. Embeddable Jobs Widget With this tool, you can now generate a scrollable job listing widget and display it on other websites with just a few clicks. (See image 1 below) Registration Wall This exciting new release will help…
What’s a good niche job board look like?
I’ve worked with hundreds of niche job boards over the years. The good ones are laser focused on their niche and just ‘look like’ they work. A good logo, hero image, solid domain, enough job listings are the basics you have to get right. Beyond that, its really about sticking with it for the long…
SalesJobs, PowerToFly, CareerBuilder in the News
Salesjobs.com, launched in June 1997, was the first sales employment site ever built and today the largest in the world with over 739,404 sales jobs and more sales resumes, and sales traffic than all its niche competitors combined. Sales Jobs Inc. CEO Eric Ruiz announced last week its first phase roll out of “SJ- 10.0” the most technologically advanced sales employment…
Pay for Performance Jobs
This week CareerBuilder announced they will be adding pay for performance job advertising. They are the first other national job board to follow indeed’s lead. So will other players take the bait and do the same? I’ve been wondering about that since indeed made their announcement. The release from CB says this; Pay For Performance stands…
New Job Boards for NW Arkansas, Energy Jobs
I recently discovered Energy Freelance, the first and only tech-enabled hiring platform that connects oil and gas companies and mineral interest owners to nationwide professionals with land, petroleum engineering, geology, and other industry-specific areas of expertise. With access to the Energy Freelance network of professionals, companies can create projects, hire qualified freelancers in minutes, and…
Future of Job Board Software
Last week I learned that HiringOpps, a job board software platform is closing up operations in the U.S. Their homepage now just features a login screen, seemingly to allow any existing clients to access their data. So what does this mean for the future of job board software? Job board software has come and gone…
Latest Job Domain Sales
I took a look at the biggest domain name purchases this year courtesy of Domain Name Journal. Two job related domains have made the list so far: AIjobs.com and Apprenticeships.org. AIjobs.com sold on SEDO for $31,610 and is now being prepped for a new career community. Clicking on the domain takes you to a landing…
Job Board News: IJA, LocumTenens, ClearanceJobs, PrintWorkers
London based The Institute of Job Aggregators (IJA) has launched to support, grow, and drive change with the leading players across the Global Job Aggregator Industry. The new institute has been launched with the support of leading minds in the recruitment and technology industry and will be chaired by former CEO of Jobsite, Mike Wall. The…