A UK Startup Job Board Has Been Acquired London-based recruitment software company Alvius, announced that it has acquired UK Startup Jobs for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, UK Startup Jobs is a job board with a community of 10,000 job seekers, headquartered in Edinburgh. The job board specialises in advertising a wide range of…
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VC Firm: Now is the Time for Niche Job Markets
Loyal reader and founder of Ranchwork.com Peter Askew, tipped me off to a very interesting article about the rise of niche job boards. Andreesen Horowitz, one of the worlds most famous venture capital firms says now is the time to start building ‘verticalized job marketplaces‘ AKA niche job boards. In a blog post on their…
Don’t Over Design Your Site
Sometimes when prospective job board owners call me about wanting to start a site they get too obsessed with customizing the look and feel of the templates that come with cloud platforms like Smart Job Board and Jobboard.io. I cringe a little when they ask if I can help them create some “cool” designs that…
What Makes Your Job Board Sellable?
If you have been thinking about selling your job board there are probably people who would want to buy it right now. A number of people have been contacting me lately to see if I know of any on the market. I have helped a number of job sites to find a buyer in the…
Chatbots for Job Boards
I think chatbots are a good tactic to use on most web sites as another channel for engagement, customer service and marketing. Perhaps not if you only run your board on the side, but if you work on it full time consider adding a chatbot to the mix. Here’s a list of them. The job…
New Job Sites: SearchRemotely, Knack, DiverseJobs
New Site for Nursing Jobs NurseEarth.com is one of my clients job boards that just launched which I helped configure and launch. The company is a staffing agency for nurses and was looking to add a job board to the mix. Check it out. Search Remotely Launches Remote Jobs Platform Search Remotely has launched a…
CareerBliss Moves to Free Job Postings for 2020
A number of recruitment sites and vendors are offering free tools and services in response to the current pandemic. In times like this, I think these are solid moves by vendors to stay relevant and do their part to help employers. Your job board may want to follow this example and think about how you…
New Job Community Tracks Layoffs Launches
LayOffers.com is a brand new community site that tracks layoffs to support workers and connect job candidates with top recruiters at no cost. Tech executive, Jeffrey Jewett, founded the service in early 2020 with a mission to help one million displaced workers. Jewett accelerated its launch in light of the economic uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19…
Don’t Abandon Your Job Board (member only)
Some job board owners seem to let their site wither and die on the vine. But this post is about turning that around. I get it, sometimes you just cant keep up with the latest marketing trends or your main job gets in the way or life becomes just too busy to run it. But…
SmartJobBoard Adds Features
Smart Job Board has announced some new updates and I cover them in my latest screencast. They continue to impress me with their efforts to allow more customizations for job board owners.