The other day I received this email from Indeed. I’d like to know what their machine was thinking when it generated this job alert. Needless to say I have never worked in, nor even been close to working in the field of psychology. So why did they send it? I wish there was a 3rd…
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Promoting Your Niche Job Board Value Prop
Almost 10 years ago on this very blog I published a post about the value proposition of niche based job boards. In that post I quoted 3 sources; Forrester Research: “Local Sites Matter. Geography is more important to job seekers than industry focused sites. Monster.com is the most popular career site, but local sites place second…
New Job Board Launches
Here’s a roundup of new launches in the job board space. Frontline Education, a leading provider of school administration software for the K-12 education community is excited to announce the relaunch of K12JobSpot integrating the best capabilities of the largest K-12-specific job site with the former Teachers-Teachers job board and educator profiles for improved ease of use and significantly…
How to Set Your Job Post Prices
One of the most common questions I hear from job board owners is how to price their site. For me this greatly depends on several factors including; Country you operate in Niche you service Amount of competition Your reach COUNTRY If you operate in the USA job post prices here are among the lowest in…
Lensa is Testing a Bounced Traffic Revenue Widget for Job Publishers
My pal Joe Stubblebine, formerly of Beyond/Nexxt and now at Lensa.com emailed me last week with some news of a new revenue widget they are working on. This widget doesn’t list jobs on your site but rather shows a user relevant jobs from Lensa only if they click the back button when leaving your site. Here’s how…
Thinking about designing your own job board?
I have spoken to a number of people over the years who have made a certain big mistake when they launched their site. They paid a web design firm with no experience building job boards to do it. Needless to say, these firms tend to build sites that are not quite optimized for job board…
Archinect Introduces ‘Jobs Visualizer’
Its my job to point out interesting things in the job board world. Case in point is the new ‘Jobs Visualizer‘ is one of those. It is a visual way of browsing employers who are hiring on Archinect, a site for architecture jobs. With Archinect Jobs Visualizer, the design work produced by the employers takes center stage….
Making Your Job Description Pages More Scannable
The look of job description pages across job boards and applicant tracking systems hasn’t changed much since jobs were online. They are generally full of text and way too long. But I think its time for job publishers to come up with some new designs that make them more “scannable” for the web. I’m not…
This Niche Job Market Just Got $60 Million in Funding!
Wow. A company called RigUp which operates a mobile/web platform that connects energy industry professionals to employers in the oil and gas field just raised $60 million in new funding. That has got to be a record for a niche job board. RigUp is an example of the next generation of job boards that are…
New Survey Shows Job Seeker’s Use of Job Boards
Here are some good stats to share with your employer clients. A new study shows job boards are the most popular way to look for work according to B2B research firm Clutch. More than 40% of job seekers secure new roles through online job boards, the survey found. This includes general job boards such as Indeed…