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…
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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…
Indeed adds endorsements to resumes, on collision course with Linkedin
Breaking News: Indeed.com, the big boy of job sites just added endorsements to its resumes product. They just took a page out of Linkedin’s playbook and fired a warning shot across their bow. Wow. I think this is a big deal and signals a quiet new war happening in the online recruiting space. As industry…
Is your product targeting active employers? (member only)
Recently a startup I am advising asked me a fairly general question about how to market their services. So we went over what they had done so far and I listened to them reel off the usual things…webinars, advertising, etc. Then she mentioned that they had bought a list of emails and sent out a…
Recruiters on twitter
There are a lot of recruiters on twitter. If you did a survey I bet recruiters, sales people and social media consultants are in the top 10 occupations for people on the platform. So from a job board or HR tech product standpoint you better be engaging with them, after all, your business depends on…