DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) the parent company of tech job board Dice.com, has sold its hospitality job board, Hcareers, to Virgil Holdings, Inc. for approximately $16.5 million in cash. The transaction closed today and DHI will use the proceeds in accordance with its stated capital allocation strategy, including the “reduction of the balance on its revolving credit facility,…
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These Next Gen Job Boards Target Restaurant/Shift Workers
There are a number of what I would call next generation job boards gaining ground in online hiring. Wonolo and Seasoned.co are both web site /app companies that let companies hire on demand. I spoke with one of the cofounder of Wonolo on my RecTech Podcast recently. What’s interesting about their model is how they…
Facebook Group Warnings
Facebook is cracking down on posting to groups. Be careful to avoid being temporarily banned. I received this message from a reader the other day I posted job offer on a few Facebook groups (16) yesterday and today and Facebook blocked me. Do you have also this issue, i don’t feel that 16 is a…
How Much Monthly Google Traffic Can You Get?
Now that Google Jobs has been up and running for about a year I thought I would share some stats around how much traffic it actually generates on a monthly basis. Below is a screenshot of Analytics from a small board I run called Jobs With Remote. It has about 800-900 jobs on it at…
Update on my affiliate earnings (member only)
I’m getting better at monetizing my affiliate earnings through Jobg8 and ZipRecruiter. Here is a quick update on how things are doing among my 4 active job boards: StartupJobs.com, JobMote.com, JobsWithRemote.com and Recruiting Jobs. My ZipRecruiter account earned $48 in April and continues to rise each month. I restarted the Startupjobs.com site in April which…
Jobg8 Announces the Line-up for Job Board Summit North America 2018
Jobg8, the global job board network, has released the line-up for its annual industry leading conference, Job Board Summit North America 2018. It will run July 26-27, 2018 in Nashville. A host of speakers will address key topics facing the future of the job board industry including artificial intelligence tools, the impact of net neutrality, recruiting in the gig economy…
SimpleJobSite is a free new job board theme
SJS is a free job board template this is available for free from a UK based company. https://simplejobscript.com/ I assume its a wordpress theme. They offer a “complete” version of it for $25 and hosting for about $4/month. The software appears to only offer Indeed as a backfill option. The interface is nicely designed (you…
Job Board News Bytes
Looking to increase your email conversions? This checklist may be of help to job boards and other vendors. Here’s the ultimate cold email checklist. It has everything you need to know before you send your next cold email – the whole enchilada. which domain to use for sending cold emails setting your DNS the correct way…
Job Boards Need to Up Their Content Game
If you are running a job board today you have to realize you are running an internet business that requires great content to get noticed. In an era of same old content it’s time most job boards up their content game.
WP Job Manager Has a New Version Out
WP Job Manager 1.31.0 has shipped recently. You can download the latest release here or head over to Dashboard → Updates to update your plugins from inside WordPress. Email notifications and support for GDPR highlight this current version. Here’s the punch list of what’s included: Support for sending email notifications Adding the ability to delete plugin data…