Lots of job boards and ATS software still dont get how to make a search engine friendly job description. I discovered Freshgigs.ca, a canadian based job board for marketing peeps and thought their job postings were well done. * The URL contains the job title AND location: https://www.freshgigs.ca/jobs/product-brand-marketing-manager-toronto-on-1 * The first thing on the page…
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Go Global for new niches (member only)
Most niche job boards are located in the United States. There are probably 10-15 sites for any industry if you know where to look. But globally speaking, there are not as many. I own JobsinSocialMedia.com and have been thinking about creating a canadian and/or uk version. Ive gotten a few emails the past year from…
Send me your topics and questions to write about
I’ve been writing about job boards and recruitment technology since 2009 on this blog and have covered just about everything. So whats on your mind? What topics would you like me to write more about? Do you have a specific question I can answer? I need your input. Write me here >> Note: due to…
The Most Simple Job Board Home Page Ever
The home page of http://www.freelancer.com/ has the most simplest effective homepage I’ve ever seen on a job board. Two buttons: hire/work The simplicity of their site warms my heart. Its a great lesson for those of you starting new job boards or thinking of redesigning your current site.
Adding banner ads to your job board (member only)
A reader asks; Right now I’m using adsense for my advertising. However, I would like to start selling my own ad space. Do you have any advice or tips? In particular, I’d like to know how I should figure out what to charge. If you’re a small job board with say less than 10,000 monthly…
5 Recent trends in job boards (member only)
I wanted to highlight some ways that job boards are changing/evolving in order to show you some of the trends that are taking place. 1. Making it easier to apply. In the past most job boards forced you to login/register in order to apply to a job. But I think the trend is going away…
IT job board for sale
A friend of mine is selling ITjobs247.com. Its an IT job board that was launched around July 2012. It has paying clients although the owner hasn’t done much lately to promote it. Its a nice looking site that features Indeed backfill. Traffic is minimal (maybe 500 uniques per month) but its fully functioning and ready…
Dice.com acquires onTargetjobs which owns Healthecareers, Hcareers and Biospace
Well guess who is $50 million dollars richer? The owners of onTargetjobs which run some of the biggest niche sites around. I first heard about this via Jonathan Duarte on Facebook. Here’s his post, here the press release link. They bought Rigzone a few years back so they are continuing their trend of buying up…
Add value by educating your clients (member only)
Whether you own a job board or some other type of HR/recruitment technology its highly important to begin educating your clients and prospective clients. For my new company I’m already writing blog posts about how to leverage social media for recruiting. But blogs aren’t enough. I’m going to start a webinar series also. Webinars are…
RanchWork launches on WordPress
RanchWork.com, a niche job board for working on ranches out west has recently launched. The owner Peter Askew recently emailed me to say that it took him about 3 weeks to configure the backend using a wordpress job board theme called Templatic. Its a simple site that has a post a job or post a…