Member Only – Depending on your niche, your job board has a ceiling in terms of how much money it can make. I have worked with a number of clients over the years who have made money with job boards. But the amount they make depends on a number of factors with the most important…
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HireVeterans.com Gets Acquired
VA Claims Insider, LLC, a Texas-based service-disabled-veteran-owned business, whose Vision is to become “The most trusted name in education-based resources for veterans,” announced the acquisition of Wyoming-based HireVeterans.com, a free website that connects veterans with new career opportunities with America’s top military and veteran employers. Terms of the deal were not made public. HireVeterans is…
AllJobs: the new kid in town
There’s a new kid on the job search engine block. AllJobs.ai just launched. The site was created by the makers of Jobiak a job marketing platform that helps employers get their job on Google for Jobs. Since the best way to get your jobs on G4J is a job board a site like this makes…
Seattle TV Station Embeds CareerBuilder Job Search
CareerBuilder and Seattle news station KIRO 7 have teamed up to spread awareness of local job openings, so that people who have lost work due to COVID-19 can find in-demand jobs in their area. KIRO 7 has embedded CareerBuilder’s job search on their website, kiro7.com/jobs and it is promoting the feature during its televised broadcast, calling viewers’ attention to the industries hiring right now and the postings available on CareerBuilder. “Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, KIRO 7…
Reader Q&A: WordPress & Backfill
A reader wrote in to ask; I’m a regular reader of your Job Board Secrets newsletter. I’ve recently noticed on the WP Job Manager blog that they are suspending support for Indeed and ZipRecruiter publisher API programs. It would be interesting to read your thoughts in the newsletter about why it happened, and what it means for small/new…
The Construction Jobs Niche
Some niches are better than others to go into if you are launching a job board. There are a variety of ways to analyze that such as the growth of jobs in the niche and the amount of other competitors serving that space. TradeHounds a company out of Boston is taking on the construction niche….
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Monster Says They Are the Largest Job Board in Singapore Despite all the unknowns, government bodies, businesses, and communities in Singapore have invested heavily in upskilling human resources and strengthening the local economy. As Asia’s leading job site, Monster supported COVID-19 impacted employees through specific campaigns aimed at finding alternate employment at the earliest and is committed…
Dice Launches Instant Messaging
Tech job site Dice.com has enabled messaging on its platform. Messaging of candidates is a solid feature for a job board if you have enough candidates in your database for it to be used. The problem for Dice is that this feature wont do much to boost sales. According to the latest earnings report from…
Why You Should Soft Launch
One mistake I see new job board owners make is launching their site too quickly before its ready for prime time viewing. That’s why I recombined doing a soft launch, particularly if you have a custom built job board. You’ll want to get any bugs/kinks ironed out before telling the world. According to Wikipedia, a…
The Ad First Job Board
A new local job board recently launched aimed at helping people find jobs in Texas, it’s called Texas Jobs Hub. “The big name job boards don’t have the Texas-focus that we do,” commented a spokesperson from Texas Jobs Hub. “We are connected to our community here in the Lone Star state and are very motivated to…