Niche job boards are popping up everywhere due to the main challenge of hiring in this difficult labor market. The latest to hit the market is this oilfield job board for the midwest. The site appears to be some sort of WordPress job board theme. Rainmakers Media Group is behind a new regional oilfield job board aimed…
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Do we need another employer review site?
I don’t envy Jobsage, a new employer review site. They have an uphill climb ahead if they plan on taking on the likes on Indeed and Glassdoor. It’s hard for me to imagine the web needs another review site. Glassdoor and Indeed OWN this space plus employers dont really like them. Jobsage is going to…
New Job Board Launches for Security Jobs
Ttpster, LLC, a veteran owned small business based out of Arlington, Virginia, has launched TtpsterJobs (www.ttpsterjobs.com), a job board created exclusively for the security industry. It is built upon the Jobboard.io platform. According to the press release; After decades of working in the security industry, Ttpster [pronounced “Tip-ster”], founder and CEO, Kevin O’Neill sought to…
SmartJobBoard adds Appcast Backfill Option
The team at SmartJobBoard is constantly improving their product suite. They seem to launch something new quarterly and are still the best game in town for job board software. They recently announced an integration with Appcast that make it easier for job board owners to populate their job database with full listings direct from the…
Poached Launches Poached Shifts for Hospitality Staffing
Poached, a jobs marketplace for the hospitality industry, has launched a new service called Poached Shifts. Any job marketplace needs to evolve over time so this seems like a good move for the Poached team. Poached aims to solve the industry’s competitive labor market and high employee turnover by providing hospitality employers the flexibility of…
Do More Virtual Job Fairs
I was chatting with a sales rep from Jobcase, the popular job market for hourly workers and he told me something interesting. They are doing 500 virtual event per week! Considering that last year they only did 2000 total, you can see why that’s a massive increase. Holding your own virtual job fair offers a…
Diversity Job Boards on the Rise
In the past year or two a number of diversity job boards have launched targeting certain underrepresented groups. Employers are definitely increasing their advertising spend with these types of sites. I found this story about the site Black Tech Talent in the Minnesota newspaper recently. (blacktechtalent.org) Minnesota Cup finalist Black Tech Talent matches tech professionals…
Publicly Traded Job Boards Report Revenue Increases
Three publicly traded job board companies DHI Group (owner of Dice and ClearanceJobs) and Professional Diversity Networks (they wn several diversity sites) and Ziprecruiter have reported increases in revenue from the last quarter. PDN “Our PDN Network continues to show stability with its third consecutive strong quarter of fiscal 2021. We believe that there is…
Job Board Events
I will be starting planning for the 2022 Job Board Con soon. I expect to hold it sometime in Marc(virtually). In the meantime here’s a few other events you may want to check out this month. Matt Lozar from Haley Marketing is holding this on Tuesday Nov 16th. From companies across the industry, a constant…
Helping Clients with Job Descriptions
As a job board one of the ways you can add value to your clients is helping them write better job descriptions. In my twenty one years in this business I have seen my share of bad descriptions that got posted to my sites. Even the best advertising can’t sell a bad product so its…