Simplicity in job board design is important. Your goal should always be to help employers post jobs quickly and easily OR help job seekers get to the jobs they seek with little effort. When I came upon CMShires.com the other day I was both elated and saddened at the same time. I was elated for…
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I wish I owned this job board
There is an awesome niche job board that I would love to own. Its an example of a job board done right from start to finish. http://www.authenticjobs.com/ AJ has been around for a few years (since ’05) and I just love how simple it is, how professional it looks and the results it delivers. As…
A look inside Indeed’s client services
In honor of small business week the folks at Indeed put out a video which shows some behind the scenes action at the job board juggernaut. They seem to put in a lot of effort in outreach and customer service. You might learn a thing or two for your own team from this short video….
Tool to make email marketing automated and fresh (premium)
I’ve written a lot in the past about Email Grabber. Another great tool is Atom Park software. They offer several email marketing solutions including SMTP servers, Email extractors and more. Since you need to find email addresses of employers to keep your lead gen going check out that they do. Extract emails from other job…
Cool twitter bootstrap job board theme
Found this cool new job board theme built off twitter bootstrap so its mobile friendly. Check out this live preview. I like how they split the interface into find a job/post a job. Great UX. Its only $15 bucks so if you are looking for a great out of the box design check it out….
For small biz, job boards are still the best way to recruit
If it weren’t for job boards small businesses would have no place to post their jobs and get resumes. I know this because I’m recruiting for a small tech company in Connecticut now. Since no one really knows our company name that well I HAVE to use job boards in order to create applicant flow….
Whats on your job board mind?
Whats top of mind for those of you reading this site? Send me some more ideas for types of content you want me to write about. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/contact/
Can you charge job seekers for stuff? (member only)
Let me just say right upfront that job seekers are the most frugal consumers on the internet. They don’t pay for shit! However you can eek out a few dollars here and there from them if you make it cheap enough and only rely on it as a secondary revenue source. I’ve been running job…
8 tips for your Jobboard.io site
I’ve been chatting with quite a few users of Jobboard.io recently and as a fan of the new platform myself I’ve picked up some tips and tricks that been useful in configuring these sites for optimal use. 1. Use the Adsense header block for text not ads. In the example below it gives you another…
Chicken or the egg problem for new job boards (member only)
A reader asks; We are about to launch the website, and now the main question that still remains open is “That awkward moment when jobseeker or employer enters the website for the first time and finds out that our CV or Jobs database is empty”. How this problem is usually solved? What was your solution…