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…
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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…
eQuests new job board study has good news
Got an email from an eQuest rep last week with info on their recent job board study. It contains good news for job board owners. In case you dont know who they are: eQuest operates one of the world’s most-utilized job posting distribution platforms. AKA they promote job board to employers. Below is the press…
On charging job seekers (member only)
I had a call this week with a blogger who has a site that he wants to monetize with a job board. He’s in the travel niche and wanted to know if he could charge job seekers something. I told him maybe. One of his competitor’s charges a small fee for job seekers to get…
The popup job board
The other day I discovered a “popup” job board that sprang from the government shutdown here in the U.S. Unfurlough.us is a spreadsheet based job board that lists available gigs and the ability to promote yourself for work if you work for Uncle Sam. This a bit of PR stunt to get some attention (it…
Your job board and Youtube
Every job board should have a Youtube channel. At the very least its AWESOME for SEO since it is the 2nd biggest search engine on the planet. I was just touching up CareerCloud’s channel just now and thought I would write this post. There are lots of cool options your channel gives you to help…