Silent Professionals Launches Silent Professionals helps veterans who have combat-related military occupational specialties in multiple ways. The site translates vet resumes into a language that civilian employers can understand. Its job board includes openings across a wide range of security-oriented roles, as well as jobs in logistics, administration and other areas. Registration and access to the…
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Tribune Publishing Partners with Recruitology to Power More Newspaper Job Sites
The owner of the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, and several other top news brands have partnered with Recruitology, providers of a talent recruitment platform to power more of their top media properties. It was announced via press release yesterday. “Our goal is to help media partners leverage their local brand while also being able to…
Reader Q&A
I get inquiries from across the globe asking various questions about starting or managing online job boards. Here are a couple of recent ones and how I answered them. Muhammad asks… If a person is starting a job board should the sited be a country based job board from the start and later move on…
Indeed’s new B2B Commercial ‘Shortlist’
ZipRecruiter has long run TV ads directly at employers and now Indeed has their own too. Up to now they have been mostly targeting consumers with their ads for job search but a new ad called “Shortlist” that speaks directly to business owners is currently airing. The ad hits directly at two key benefits, their…
Content Marketing Tip
If you create and share content for your job board (an you ALL should) you need to maximize the reach of that content across all channels. Watch one way how to do that in this 2 minute screencast. Follow me on Youtube
Emissary’s Text Reminder for Job Boards
Last week I spoke with the guys at Emissary.ai, a new text recruiting tool born out of the offices of Juju.com the job aggregator. Emissary has a plugin for job boards that helps drive traffic/applies through text reminders. It is currently live on sites like CareersInGovernment.com on their job postings. Emissary has several ways employers…
SmartJobBoard adds Resume Parser
In a blog post last week Rodion Telpizoz announced that SJB has added a resume parser to the platform which helps job seekers automatically pre-populate their profile fields. Watch the screencast for more info. Follow me on Youtube
Job Board Concierge Service
I have recently updated the details of my job board concierge service that I offer for either SmartJobBoard or Jobboard.io platforms. I know each of these platforms intimately and can get you up and running in a week or less. Job board concierge service from Chris Russell
Matching is the part of the next generation job board
Recently, the executive level job site, ExecThread unveiled a new matching algorithm. Matching is essentially automated sourcing and you are seeing more and more job marketplaces offer it. ZipRecruiter does a ton of matching already and I’d say its becoming more of a standard feature across the new job boards and sourcing tools that are…
Jobg8 Nashville Recap
I hadn’t been to Nashville in several years so the 2 hour flight from NY was an easy decision to head down to Jobg8’s annual U.S event. Over 100 job board pros gathered for a day and a half of networking and learning. For me it was a chance to reconnect with old friends such…