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…
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What type of job board should you start? (member only)
I think the best way to look at this question is to first pick a hot job market. A job market (industry) is hot if the companies are having a hard time finding talent for it or its an up and coming type of job (ex: drone pilots). Then you must look at what existing…
Jobify is new wordpress job board plugin
Here’s a new mobile friendly wordpress plugin for job boards. Its one of the more elegant designs I have come across. Download it here for $55.
Best options for backfill
Most of the off the shelf job board solutions let you pre-populate your job board with listings from their database. This is called “backfill” and its another way you can earn revenue. Generally speaking its not a lot of money but a job board that gets 10,000 monthly pages views can earn in the ‘hundreds…
If you aren’t tweeting your jobs, you should be (member only)
Is your job board on twitter? You should already be tweeting job search advice and industry news but your jobs should also be in the mix. And you may want a separate twitter account to do it. For the simple reason of showing up on twitter search. Take Ziprecruiter for example. They have a main…
Dice buys another job board – OilCareers
Last week Dice.com bought another niche job board, this time picking up UK based Oilcareers.com. The press release actually mentions the sales of Oilcareers.com which I thought was very interesting and indicative of their strategy in the job board industry. Dice Holdings, Inc. is purchasing OilCareers from the Daily Mail and General Trust PLC (LON:…
Using online advertising as your salesforce (member only)
Pinpointing recruiters is fairly easy today. Just go to other job boards to find leads or comb though Linkedin profiles. But selling to them takes many forms. I always used technology to do my selling for me. Here’s a 5 min video about one way to do it. NOTE: my new email is chris@careercloud.com
Is pot the next great job niche?
With the explosion of medical marijuana sweeping many states like Colorado and Washington, I’m starting to wonder if pot is the next great job niche. A quick search of ‘marijuana jobs‘ on Google shows only 2 real sites: Cannajobs.com and THCjobs.com. If you are looking for a niche thats about to take off this one…
Starting slowly (member only)
Got off the phone just now with a client who has a blog and wants to add a job board piece to it. He’s been blogging for a while about careers in a certain niche and already has 5,000 monthly visitors. This is a great way to start a job board. By actually just writing…
Lets get visual (member only)
Since the web is getting more visual I think job boards need to start doing so as well. I think job descriptions need to get much more visual! With more colors, more social integration and more logos. A job board that starts to take design of its job descriptions more creatively will have a way…