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.
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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…
Critique of a job board (member only
Recently I was aked by a client to critique his nursing job board. Instead of a call he asked me to write it as a report. I wanted to share those details with you. I cant tell the name of the website due to confidentiality but I think you’ll find some useful nuggets here for…
Get ready for .career domains
Dot career is coming to a website near you in 2014. The same company (Employ Media) that runs .jobs will be selling them. In addition to job board uses they say it will be good for business, staffing firms, even personal use; Businesses and staffing agencies around the world will find .CAREER a natural extension…
Make yourself the face of your job site or recruiting technology (member only)
I got off the call today with a consulting client who started his job board in February 2013. Its in the ‘work at home’ category. He asked me how to get clients. Part of the answer, I told him, is to make himself the face of the company. People do business with people they know…so…