I have been getting a lot of inquires lately about companies who provide job backfill to publishers. So I spent a few hours putting together the ultimate list of providers that allow you to each money though listing their job inventory, Its just $15 bucks. Buy it below or click here. Loading…
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Archinect Introduces ‘Jobs Visualizer’
Its my job to point out interesting things in the job board world. Case in point is the new ‘Jobs Visualizer‘ is one of those. It is a visual way of browsing employers who are hiring on Archinect, a site for architecture jobs. With Archinect Jobs Visualizer, the design work produced by the employers takes center stage….
How to Improve Your ‘Drive by’ Ecommerce Postings (member only)
I received a message from new member who asks; Do you have anything on basic SEO tactics we can implement? This would be for the job seeker and employer side of the job boards we power for our newspaper partners. We have about dozens of sites and the goal is to grow e-commerce self service revenue. Its a great…
Cool Job Board Design: NoFluffJobs
A reader of mine emailed me last week to point out a tech job board out of Poland that has an interesting take on design. Here’s a quick screencast of NoFluffJobs. They take a minimal design approach and make it easy as heck to scan and apply to postings.
Job Board Newsletters
I have come across a few clients lately who haven’t taken advantage of emailing their employers. Every job board should be communicating with its employers at least once a month. In this screencast you’ll see a good example of one from Mac’s List a local job board out of Oregon. Email is a channel you own…
Making Your Job Description Pages More Scannable
The look of job description pages across job boards and applicant tracking systems hasn’t changed much since jobs were online. They are generally full of text and way too long. But I think its time for job publishers to come up with some new designs that make them more “scannable” for the web. I’m not…
New site for Robot Jobs
A new niche job board has been spotted in the wild, this one targets robots/AI/connected devices. Robots.jobs is powered by the Career Leaf platform. There is an immediate problem of filling positions at companies developing or building robots across the USA. Robots.jobs is a new tool for matching specialized talent with employers in robotics, artificial intelligence, and related…
FireBrickGroup Wants to Help Boards Monetize Resumes
The team over at FireBrickGroup is looking for job boards to partner with. Specifically around email alerts. Send them your daily feed of your jobs and jobseekers. They will create daily behavioral job alerts for your jobseekers with up to 3 of your jobs at the top positions at no cost to you. They will then match our backfill…
This Niche Job Market Just Got $60 Million in Funding!
Wow. A company called RigUp which operates a mobile/web platform that connects energy industry professionals to employers in the oil and gas field just raised $60 million in new funding. That has got to be a record for a niche job board. RigUp is an example of the next generation of job boards that are…
What’s a job domain worth?
Last week a surprise email hit my inbox. It was from GoDaddy telling me one of the domains I had listed on their auction site had sold and I was about to receive a few thousand bucks. Not bad for a domain that I spent $100 bucks on years ago. My investment finally paid off….