Rapid API is a new API marketplace that just picked up $9 million in funding. The site is a conduit which connects developers to public APIs and allows them to manage API connections from a single interface, as well as accessing metrics. I did a quick search for jobs to see what came up and…
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Startup Job Search Engine Adzuna Wins Contract for Universal Jobmatch service Adzuna, the UK-based job search engine, has today announced it has been awarded the contract to replace the UK government’s job search platform, Universal Jobmatch. Following a competitive procurement process, the company will be providing the new service from Q2 2018. As one of…
Choosing Your Job Board Domain Name
A reader writes in; So, I want to have a local job board. I live San Diego, CA and I want to focus on a specific City within the county which is Chula Vista, it’s a growing city. It’s about 15 minutes away from Mexico border, Chula Vista was one of the cities that pitched a…
Resume-Library seeks partners for its ‘resume backfill program’
Resume-Library is on the lookout for partners to supply and consume U.S. resumes, as it continues to build out its resume backfill program. “Acting as a real time broker, Resume-Library helps organizations registering U.S. candidates to further monetize their inventory by matching it to demand in the market, coming from job boards and ATS systems…
Job Board Summit Coming to Nashville and London in 2018
I’m planning on going to the Jobg8 Job Board Summit for the first time ever in Nashville this summer. Hope to see you there. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Job Board Summit is a two-day event that is designed for the job board industry. It takes place twice a year and brings together a community of…
JobAdX Seeks Job Board Publishers
If you run a job board, JobAdX wants to chat with you about becoming part of their job ad marketplace. I call their new platform the ‘Adsense for jobs‘. It’s basically another way to backfill your site but it sits in your job results on the first page as kind of a premium in feed…
Buying an Old Job Board (member only)
I bought a “used” job board this week. Jobmote.com an aggregator of remote job listings was for sale on Flippa and I decided to pick it up. I won it at auction for $805. Not bad for a 5 year old domain and a site with a few thousand visitors and Facebook and Twitter accounts…
Job Board Software Vendors Should Add These Features
This is a general call to action post for all job board software vendors. As the job board space gets more crowded it’s important for them to keep iterating on their platforms and keep adding features to streamline the user experience while helping boards attract more traffic. So here are some things I would like…
How to ask for backlinks
If you are looking to get more backlinks to your site one of the things you should be doing is asking for them. I frequently get pitched via email and thought I would share one of those emails so you can use it to craft your own messaging. Its critical to point out specific pagaes…
SmartJobBoard Gets More Customizable
Smart Job Board has long had a page builder for their homepage layout, where you can easily manage content. Now it is available for Pricing and custom pages in their latest update. Here’s what the email notification says; This new addition will not only ease up DIY designing but will also allow you to: -Create different landing pages, for example…