Job boards are in the apply business. Your job, so to speak, is to drive applies to your paying customers. Without that activity you won’t be in business for long. The standard for how a page handles the apply button has changed. No longer is just having the button on the bottom acceptable. Now you…
JobSeer, the AI-powered Chrome extension tool for job seekers, announces the launch of Mini Box, a compact view that provides immediate condensed insights on candidacy for users to refer to on-the-go. With Mini Box, users can enhance ease-of-use by quickly scanning the most critical job description insights. The Mini Box consists of a candidate match…
There are a number of resume affiliates that job boards can take advantage of to earn extra dollars. I highly recommend adding this revenue source to your business model. To me this is low hanging fruit every job board should go after. TopResume is of course the leader in this space but a number of…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…