LocalJobNetwork™, a company which operates 600+ local job boards has announced a rebrand as Circa. The company also just acquired America’s Job Bank in a new deal. The company’s research shows that employers are shifting from diversity as a program to diversity as a business strategy. This repositioning better aligns its products and solutions to…
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The Text Only Job Board
Lately I have been thinking about creating a text only job board. It’s a simple, one page website like what you see below. Texting open rates are at 95%+ vs. ~20% for email according to text recruiting software company Emissary. So why aren’t more job boards adding text to the mix? I feel like there…
Help Your Job Board Emails Avoid Spam
I saw this the other day via the Morning Brew newsletter that I subscribe to. It’s a good example for how to tell people on your email list to mark your emails so they don’t go into spam. I suggest sending something like this at various intervals as a reminder, especially when they first sign…
Job Board News Bytes
DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) today announced that ClearanceJobs, the leading career marketplace for professionals with security clearances, has released Workflow, a product feature that allows recruiters to pre-program processes throughout the talent acquisition lifecycle, saving them time on typically tedious recruiting tasks. In the world of cleared candidate sourcing, time is money, and top candidates…
The chicken or egg job board question
Ryan, a reader sent me this question the other day; I have a niche sector that I’m going to target, though it’ll be global ideally and have jobs anywhere within the industry. My question though, in your experience, how do you get people to visit a website without lots of jobs and how do you…
New Matching Job Platform Launches
Techcrunch reported recently about the launch of Candidate Labs. Candidate Labs launched today as a modern talent agency, after operating in stealth for the past seven months. The company also announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding. Candidate Labs connects a data platform with 100 million professionals to its database of…
BankTalentHQ Inks Partnership with America’s Job Exchange
This is a good strategy for an upsell product to employers. Jobs posted on BTHQ will be filtered to the diversity network on AJE. -CR BankTalentHQ is dedicated to connecting talent in the financial services industry, and we are excited to announce our latest partnership with America’s Job Exchange (AJE) to make connecting even easier…
More Software Updates
The developers at Jobboard.io and Smart Job Job Board have been busy this year. Updates to both cloud platforms have seemingly been more frequent this year which I like to see. Iteration is a good thing when it comes to running any kind of software company and so it is with job boards. Over time,…
Construction Industry Job Platform Gets Funding
Aiming to be the LinkedIn of the construction industry; TradeHounds will launch Jobs platform this summer to connect skilled tradespeople with employment opportunities after receiving a new investment of $3.2 million. According to the press release; Construction companies and the staffing firms that support them stand to benefit from immediate access to a larger pool…
Student Job Board Launches for Australian Market
Five Bees Media have announced the launch of a new platform aimed exclusively at job-hunting students in Australia. The team behind Backpacker Job Board, Australia’s number one backpacker employment marketplace, have launched Student Job Board. Student Job Board is an Australian-based employment site for students in secondary and tertiary education. Specialising in casual and holiday…