There are lots of niche job boards online that serve a unique segment of the job market. RanchWork.com is one of those sites. Their site just underwent a WordPress redesign and I love their new look. Owner Peter Askew offered to answer some questions from me over email and today’s post is all about their…
Let’s face it, no one knew how to pronounce or spell the name ‘neuvoo‘. So when i saw the news last week that the job search company had acquired a top tier domain like Talent.com, I saw it as a much needed move if they ever want to take on the Indeed’s of the world….
There hasn’t been much news coming out of Google lately regarding Google for Jobs, the job search feature which launched over 2 years ago. The last update they had was back in June when it was announced they had entered France. Before that, they had enabled a remote jobs filter back in February. Last week…
Rule number one in the job board business is never launch your site with jobs. It needs to be stocked/primed before you launch so that it provides value to any seekers coming to it. If I see no jobs on it initially what reason do I have to come back? Case in point is this…
Culinary Agents is a website to find career-related information about the hospitality industry. Their community includes over 720,000 members and 25,000 businesses nationwide. The platform empowers aspiring and existing talent to easily discover and apply to the best jobs. Culinary Agents also provides job marketing, recruiting and employer branding solutions to help businesses hire the…
Apparently I have an old resume on Indeed. This email hit my inbox over the weekend; It reminds me (no pun intended) that job boards must constantly prod their audience to come back to their site and keep their profiles updated. Job seekers need coaxing so you should give them reasons to come back and…
Some interesting news just hit my inbox, Austria based Jobiqo has just received a major new investment. Originally I thought they were acquired by Russmedia, the job board company, but Martin Lenz from Jobiqo clarified by telling me that RMI is a separate unrelated entity. Jobiqo is the first investment of RMI into a software…
Picking your job board niche is a key indicator for success. One of the ways to validate it is to review the job growth predictions for that market. The Knowledge Academy just released their list of jobs that will have the biggest growth; Unsurprisingly The Knowledge Academy discovered that America will see a large growth…
Video platform Vimeo just realized job boards make sense. They have launched their own hiring marketplace for members of the platform. It is free to find or post jobs. According to the press release; The platform now offers a “For Hire” marketplace that provides anyone looking to produce high-quality video with a simple, effective way…
Its a good time to be a job board. VCs are falling in love with all kinds of them. Tons of new marketplaces are getting some serious funding. neuvoo Raised $53 Million (CA) to expand Globally Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a long-term institutional investor, is announcing an equity investment of CA$53 million…