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….
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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…
Mobile friendly
It was long overdue but I finally had a WordPress developer create a mobile friendly version of Job Board Secrets.
The Power of Social Traffic (member only)
I launched CareerCloud in early January. Its in Beta so I just wanted to do a “soft launch” by promoting it only through my social connections. That way I could evaluate the site and see how its working, fix the bugs, etc before I really started marketing it. I emailed all 1700 of my Linkedin…
These job board owners pivoted to T-shirts
I ran into this interview with the founders of a site called Jobzle. In it, they detail how they crashed and burned with that site. You’ll hear some valuable lessons about starting an online recruiting business.
Should you add video to your job board?
Not really I say. I get questions from people thinking about starting some kind of video resume site or ways to apply via video. But just adding some kind of video component to your job site wont really add much value to the seeker or employer. Employer/recruiters are BUSY people. And I cant stress that…