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…
Blog
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.
“Essential” Job Sites
As the virus outbreak takes hold in the U.S. a number of virus related job boards have popped up. Techcrunch has a story of one, the NRF created a retail job resource page and even Bayard Advertising got into the act with HiringAgain.com. States are getting into the act as well and this one from…
A Niche You Might Want to Go After (member only)
The team behind niche boards like JobsinLogistics has launched a new job board call HomeDeliveryJobs.com [link] With the virus outbreak, delivery drivers are in more demand than ever and if you can help these employers fill them, perhaps you should start a delivery job board. Noe really exist as far as I know. Even after…
Job Board News: PharmiWeb, MDCC, LongIsland.com, OnFleet
PharmiWeb Ltd, owners of Europe’s largest Pharma Job Board, are pleased to announce that they have launched their latest job board for Pharma and Life Science Jobs in Australasia. The new job board will focus on the Pharma, Life Sciences & Medical Devices sector in Australasia and will give the region’s job seekers a new…
Layoffs Starting to Hit Major Job Boards
Last Friday was a somber day at ZipRecruiter based in Santa Monica, California. The company reportedly let go nearly 500 of its 1,600 employees. Former employees mentioned the news on LinkedIn through various posts. It affected all departments even engineering. As the economy goes, so does the success of job boards. The vast majority of…
Running Your Job Board in the Age of Coronavirus
In the span of a few short weeks the job market has turned upside down and the world is facing a global recession. These are trying times for anyone in the HR world. I have been through these boom cycles many times before. It seems like every ten years or so we are faced with…
New Hiring App: Paths
Paths is a new platform from HiringSolved based out of Arizona. This is their first consumer job search app. The company says; “We’re building it because we believe that if we can make hiring better, we can make life better for many people. We’re building it because nothing much has changed in work-finding apps in…
The Spreadsheet Job Board
Open source spreadsheets are having a moment. When online retailer Wayfair recently announced layoffs a recruiter at the company created a spreadsheet on Google Drive that she made public with the names and contact information of those laid off. It went viral and many people were able to land jobs because of its creation. Then…