I spoke to a blogger last week who was thinking about adding a job board to his site. My answer to him was NO don’t do it. Unless he is able to niche down his audience. You see, general job advice blogs are not good candidates to add a job board. They have nothing to…
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Job Boards in the News
Most Sought After Jobs Report Public sector jobs, domestic help positions, and academic/career assistance jobs are some of the most sought after roles of 2022, according to new research from job search engine Adzuna. The research analyzed over 25.3 million U.S. job vacancies advertised on Adzuna in Q4 2021, looking into the job titles with the highest application…
SEO Ideas: Job Descriptions for your Niche
If you are looking for easy content to create for your niche job board that is also good for SEO, consider writing your own job descriptions. Why? Because recruiters are always searching for templates to use when writing their own job descriptions. Take a page from Indeed’s SEO play book. If you search for “director…
Job Board Happy Hour Replay
Here’s the recording from last months job board happy hour with my job board friends.
JobList adds postings
Joblist, a job search platform that personalizes the process of finding and landing a job, today officially launched a job posting product aimed at helping employers find and recruit more quality candidates. The affordable, self-serve solution allows companies to promote their job openings to Joblist’s large audience of job seekers in just a few quick…
Industry related Jobs domain sells for $205k
Is a keyword based job domain for an industry niche worth $200,000? Well the new owner of Cybersecurityjobs.com thinks so. They just purchased it at auction via Sedo. The sale is the biggest jobs related domain purchase in quite a while. Niche domains like this don’t usually sell for six figures. They normally go for…
CareerBuilder Launches New Job Seeker Resource
CB has launched CoLab, a resource hub designed to offer job seekers critical information that helps them make confident decisions related to current and future career choices. In a recent survey, CareerBuilder found that users were having difficulty navigating the job search process without advice and clarity related to their personal skillset and specific job postings….
Job Board Funding News
Two job boards received funding last week and one of them just became a unicorn. First is RoleBot, it bills itself as AI-powered job board for top-tier, passive talent. It got 4.5 million in seed funding. Rolebot’s AI finds the most promising talent likely to look for a new opportunity by creating an ideal look-alike…
Fair Chance Hiring Platform lands Funding
Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL3, LLC) announced an investment in Honest Jobs, a leading national job platform focusing on fair chance employment which launched back in 2019. The investment amounts to $1.5M seed financing round. The mission of Honest Jobs is to help people impacted by the criminal justice system find employment fast. The company was…
Random Job Board Videos
Here’s a random post with some job board stuff I found on Youtube. No code is becoming a thing with developers. There’s a number of no code tools out there to create web applications. This guy explains some of those tools. Here’s another no code solution called WeWeb. Lastly, here’s a walkthrough of how to…