Adding additional revenue to you job board is not that hard. Think about adding affiliate programs to add a little $$$ to your bottom line. Here are several ways to do that; Resume Writers: partner with resume writers to send them leads. I see this one on twitter all the time. http://www.greatresumesfast.com/affiliate-program.htm http://www.enchantedcareers.com/services/extra-income-opportunities/ Enchanted Careers,…
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Niche job board I admire: Stack Overflow Careers
Last Saturday I attended my first recruiting “unconference” at the offices of Stack Overflow in lower Manhattan. An unconference is a one day event where the sessions consist of a track leader who introduces a topic to a group and then lets the group take the discussion to wherever they want. truNewYork was put on by @billboorman….
Linkedin hack for uncovering recruiter emails (member only)
Need some top quality leads for recruiters? Here’s a hack to do just that within Linkedin. Some people on linkedin put their email address in their profile which makes it publicly available, especially a lot of recruiters. Click the link below to view an example; site:linkedin.com (intitle:com OR gmail.com OR yahoo.com) keywords title “greater new…
Power of the Niche (member only)
I wanted to give you an update on how my latest niche job board is doing. http://uavjobbank.com/ It targets a brand new niche that I recently discovered. Because the market has no existing competitors it already ranks on page 1 of google despite only being live for about 5 weeks. Check out the stats below….
Updated job board cheatsheet (member only)
I wrote this a few years back in order to quickly summarize many of my ideas about running a job board. Here’s the list with a few updated bullet points. 1. Get an 800# for your business. This will make you look more professional in the eyes of employers. Try Onebox, Grasshopper or eVoice. 2….
Should I hire a sales person for my job board?
When I ran my local job boards I had NO sales team. Instead I relied on electronic ways to offset any lack of manpower. If you dont have the time for sales yourself here’s how you can do it without one. 1. I bought keywords on Google for my niche. Recruiters google for different job…
Job Boards: are your resumes public or private?
With the advent of sites like Linkedin, Github, Behance and others that contain publicly available profiles, job boards face a conundrum since they typically have private only resume search. But they need to evolve with the times. The trend now is making your job seeker “profiles” open to search engines so candidates can be found. I believe…
Should you buy or build your job board software? (member only)
I get this question a lot. What software should I use? Well it depends. If you are just looking to create a simple site to test the market you are better off BUYING. There are plenty off the shelf options…webJobs, SmartJobBoard, Jobmount, Forcefinder, Jobtarget, Adicio, etc. But if you want to be able to customize…
New niche job market: Drones & UAV’s
I read an article recently that predicts the civilian UAV industry is posed to explode in the next few years when the FAA opens up airspace to unmanned aerial vehicles, aka drones. So I see opportunity and just launched two job boards to take advantage of this trend. UAVjobbank.com JobsinDrones.com Each is powered by Jobamatic….
Use content marketing to drive traffic to your job board
There are many “cheap” ways to get job seeker traffic to your job board. One is content marketing. This involves writing, lots of writing. Yes it includes a blog (which every job board should have) but it also means other pieices of content such as podcasts, videos and ebooks. When I started my network of…