News and tidbits from the job board world. A month after JobSeer’s first release of its AI-powered Chrome extension tool consisting of advanced job matching, skills recommendation, and recruiters’ and employees’ contact finder features, JobSeer reveals the newest Visa Sponsorship Feature to help foreign workers simplify their job search by filtering the companies that sponsor work visas….
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CPC Pricing Update – Interview with Appcast
Appcast just released their recruitment marketing benchmark report which tracks CPC job prices. In 2020 the avg CPC (cost-per-click) for job advertising rose to 79 cents, up from 71 cents in 2019. I spoke to their CEO Chris Forman by phone about the new numbers and he gave some insight into what’s happening int he…
New Job Board Launches for “Social Impact”
Organizations and job seekers in the nonprofit, philanthropy, and mission-driven sectors now have a new career resource, with the launch of Impact Opportunity’s new job board. The site offers a job board and content resource specifically for mission-driven organizations and individuals seeking careers that make a significant difference in the world. Impact Opportunity (http://www.ImpactOpportunity.org) is…
Promoting your job board through Press Releases
I read a lot of press releases as part of news reporting activities for the various sites I operate. Doing this regularly allows me to see who is doing PR right from a vendor standpoint. My case in point for this blog is FlexJobs, the member driven job board with remote/flexible work. They push out…
Job Board News
Google Helps Rhode Island Launch New Matching Job Board Back to Work Rhode Island, a state-led workforce development initiative, Monday unveiled a virtual career center platform that will allow Rhode Islanders to not only find employment, but also get matched with career opportunities based on their skills. Hailed by Google as a first of its…
Job Board Pros Virtual Happy Hour Event
On Tuesday March 2nd at 5pm EST I’ll be hosting a virtual happy hour for job board professionals and those that attend the Job Board Con event. The happy hour event will be free to any of my readers. Register here. The happy hour will start with a few remarks from Todd Goldstein of TopResume…
The ‘Content First’ Job Board Model
In the past year a number of my initial consulting phone calls have centered around the entrepreneur building a job board built around content. And to me, this is a tried and true way of making money in online recruiting. There are a number of successful so-called “job boards” that built their business off the…
Job Board Headlines
Discovered another freelancer job board, this one is called Indy. These site are proliferating but its already a crowded freelancer market with dozens of competitors. -CR Indy announces the launch of its commission-free job matching service. The platform allows freelancers to find projects that fit their talents while retaining their independence and owning their client relationships….
Facebook Scraping Job Boards
In the past few weeks I noticed a new referral item in my Google Analytics on two of my job boards. If you navigate to Acquisition > All Traffic > Source/Medium you may find the following entry; jobs_on_facebook / organic This new entry coincides with a Facebook bot I spotted on the stats for RecruitingHRjobs.com…
Job Boards in the News
JobSeer announces the release of its Chrome Extension tool to help individuals shorten the job search process with AI-powered job matching and recommendation features. JobSeer is a product launched by AI recruitment platform Hiretual to empower job seekers with accessible technology to prioritize job searches based on individual preferences and qualifications. Compatible with various job boards, including…