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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The ApplyAI an AI based career guidance platform that I profiled on my Youtube channel (video below) is rebranding to CareerSpan. Careerspan’s AI-powered platform serves as a career companion, addressing the critical need for personalized career guidance in an unpredictable job market. The company’s tools coach professionals to: “Our new name, Careerspan, reflects our mission…
JBoard founder Marty Aghajanyan just announced a long awaited update to the job board software platform known as JBoard. It’s a new drag and drop website builder so you can really customize the look and feel of your job board. Most job board platforms are very templated in that they all look like each other…
I recently helped a staffing pro in the financial services industry launch WholesalerJobs.com, a niche board dedicated to financial “wholesale” jobs which are essentially financial sales positions. He has been a recruiter in this sector for many years and has a big network of these pros at the ready. A job board made sense for…
Mercor is an AI hiring platform that enables top tech companies and leading AI labs to hire experts at tech companies across software engineering, law, chemistry, finance, and many other professions. VC’s just gave them $30 million to grow the business. They are now valued at a whopping $250 million. The round was led by…