In case you hadn’t noticed there are big changes happening in the job board world. Now that Facebook and Google are in the game, the market is even more crowded and they are putting pressure on boards of all sizes and shapes. Things are changing at a rapid pace. This new trend will certainly begin to…
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News & Notes from Job Board World
The Midland Reporter-Telegram has launched TexasBacktoWork.com powered by RealMatch. The MRT serves more than 300,000 print and online readers, of which more than 200,000 of those readers are in the Midland-Odessa designated market. Read the article here. Nicely designed with a clean look and feel. eQuest Amasses 90 Million Job Board Records eQuest today reported that…
The Bad Press Release
As someone who reads a lot of press releases I cringe when I see bad PR being pimped online. A press release should tell a unique story. It should avoid buzzwords. It should inform the reader. Unfortunately whoever wrote this piece for a new HR tech company called ShiftStars should be ashamed. Let’s take a look….
Maximizing Your Job Board Revenue
If you just make money off job postings it’s time to break out into new revenue streams. I was speaking to a job board owner recently who had not done so yet and was wondering what to do to make more money. “Diversify” I told him. “You need to open up new streams of revenue“….
Use this app to make your social job posts more visual
If you post your clients jobs to your social media channel, you need to make them more visual. An app called Legend does just that. Check out this video put out by local job site JobsinNH on their Facebook page. By creating more visual ways to engage with your jobs you can get a better…
New Niche Board: Jobs With Relo
Jobs with Relo is a new site that launched a few months ago. Built with the Jobboard.io platform, it is my most recent site launch. i saw a niche that has yet to be touched and thought it was worth a try to get it online. It targets only jobs that come with relocation assistance…
2500 Job Domains For Sale
Fran Grossman has been buying job related domains for years and is looking to sell off most of her names. So she has put up a new website that showcases these niche domains and is now accepting offers on all of them. Head over to JobDomainsforSale.com and check them out. To give you some idea…
New Ebook: Social Media & Your Job Board
Meet my fifth ebook: Social Media & Your Job Board. It’s an in depth look at how to structure your social media around the following channels: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. I’ve put every hack, tips and trick I know in it to help my fellow job boarders get more out of their social strategy….
Former Job Board Owner Goes to Jail
Here’s a story that caught my eye recently. A guy who sold his job board to DICE apparently hacked back in and stole customer data in order to start a competing site. The story goes on to say he tried to sell the new site to DICE as well! “I am deeply remorseful for my…
Remember HotJobs?
The early days of job boards saw sites such as HotJobs.com rise to early stardom. In the video below their former CEO recants about that time and also covers the history of the ATS. Dan Finigan of Jobvite recorded at the recent HR technology conference. Jobvite CEO on history of ATS and HotJobs from RecTech…