I have talked to 20+ job boards in the past few months about helping them with their marketing efforts. One thing I have learned in those discussions is that many of them are woefully behind the curve when it comes to email marketing. Sites that have been around years and that have accumulated thousands of…
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Who’s Going to TA Tech Orlando?
Next month the job board association (formerly known as IAEWS) is holding its annual vendor conference in Orlando under its new name TA Tech. They have rebranded to be more inclusive of talent acquisition technologies not just job boards. For me, it will be my first visit to the event in several years. I’m looking…
2 Sales Tactics for your Job Board (member only)
New job board owners struggle when it comes to sales. Especially if they have never sold anything before, the sales process in HR circles is challenging. Recently, after working with some clients I picked up a few things I can impart to you on this blog. Job Board Sales Tactic #1 One site I know…
New Job Board Sightings
Here’s a quick look at some new job boards that have launched or made other news recently. ITJobCafe is an eight year old job board that just launched a new mobile friendly design. They have collected 100,000 tech resumes since starting and use job distribution to give employers more value (more sites, 1 price). READ…
Niche Job Board TreasuryJobs.com For Sale
I’ve been hired to help broker the sale of TreasuryJobs.com, the only niche job board that serves that sector of the financial job market in the United States. The site launched in 2014 and has significant double digit sales with a strong history of growth since its inception. The site is hosted on the ForceFinder job…
Let me give your site a PR Boost
Part of what I do as a consultant in the online recruiting industry is to raise awareness of my clients among recruiters and employers. Over the years I have amassed a strong network of followers who like what I share and write. I’ve also built several email lists and groups of recruiters that I can…
Concierge service for Jobboard.io
As part of my suite of consulting services I am now offering a complete A to Z setup & launch service for those interested in starting (or migrating) their job board to the Jobboard.io platform. It’s the quickest, easiest way to get started in the job board industry. Here’s what the service entails. In a…
TaxJobs.com Launches to Help Employers Find Top Corporate Tax Talent
Niche job boards do it better. They offer employers access to targeted groups of candidates in any niche you can imagine. Today, there are job boards for every niche market and in many cases multiple boards for each vertical market. As someone who keeps close tabs on the job board industry, I would like to…
How to run your job board on the side
A lot of job board owners today work at full-time gigs while running their site on the side. I’ve done this at times in my past as well. When I started my first job board in 1999 I worked full-time for 2 years until I got laid off in the dot bomb era. But by then my…
JobMonster is new WordPress Job board theme
There is no shortage of job board WordPress themes and here’s another that just came across my desk. JobMonster. You can buy it for $59. The interface is nicely done. Features include a resume database, logos on job results, blogging of course and a mobile friendly design. It’s worth a look if you are WordPress…