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…
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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…
3 things every new job board needs to have
Job boards are evolving. If you are starting a job board today you need to keep in mind trends in the online job market so that your site contains the latest features that job seekers expect. Here are 3 things that every new job board should have. 1. Mobile friendly/mobile apply. Most job seekers are…
How much should I expect to make with a job board? (member only)
So big job baords like Monster still make a couple hundred million per year. Sites like Ontargetjobs.com make a few million per year and then there’s the rest of the job board market. Established niche players that have been around for several years make six figures. The rest squeeze by with $10-25k per year. A…
We need more aggregators
File this under things that need to exist. We need a job board only job search engine/directory that lets job boards get indexed for free and helps job seekers uncover more sources. I think job seekers are not discovering all the possible jobs that are online, especially among the niche job boards. Indeed.com is listing…
How to start a job board
Lately I’ve been getting lots of calls from newbies who want to start their own job board. So with their questions fresh in my mind I wanted to summarize how to start a job board from the ground up. First, a warning. If you are not experienced in the operations of a website I suggest…