The web is becoming a more visual place. Just look at whats happening on social media. Linkedin, twitter, instagram and facebook are all about VISUALS. The reason is simple. Pictures make people happy. Pictures are more engaging than a plain old text tweet or a Facebook status update. Linkedin is really going visual, have you…
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Improving your apply ratio for employers (member only)
Is your job board apply ratio going down threatening to devalue your site in the eyes of employers using you? Consider this question I got from a reader. I have long used our website as a blog to highlight jobs. We push content of many different kinds. Have found that increasingly candidates are not crazy…
August doldrums
I was on vacation last week. Generally I take off the first week of august which reminds me of the traffic levels for any job board. If you run any kind of website you know that traffic ebbs and flows each month. In my past experience running job boards, August was always the 2nd slowest…
Gerry Crispin interview on latest sources of hire study
There’s a lot of job board talk in this video interview with Gerry Crispin on the latest sources of hire study that his consulting firm, CareerXroads publishes each year. Following up on last weeks post check out this great interview as he breaks down the study even further. [youtube]http://youtu.be/mXmLHyXhMss[/youtube]
Job boards account for 15% of all hires in latest survey
The new Sources of Hire study is out. You whats hot? Sourcing is. Referrals, company career sites and job boards were all down from last year. Read the article. Job boards accounted for 15.1% last year. CareerXroads puts out this study each year and foes a great job with it. I think the respondents are…
Lessons on starting a job search content company
Ever heard of The Muse? its a job search content site that pumps out 40 articles per week and sells profile pages to employers. In this episode of TWIST with Jason Calacanis, the co founder Katherine Mnshew talks about jobs and the career space. If you run any kind of job search business its a…
My list of the top 15 national job boards
Here’s my list of the top 15 National job boards. This list is NOT ranked by traffic, rather by my knowledge of the job board industry, their popularity among job seekers and number of jobs in their respective databases. None of these are niche sites. They contain listings from all industries across the USA. 1….
Job boards in the news
Here’s a look at whats happening in the job board world. [youtube]http://youtu.be/mjrCye350HA[/youtube]
Sell your own ads (member only)
Most job boards only use adsense or other ad networks to generate revenue from ads. But few take advantage of selling their own. Over the years I’ve sold dozens of my own ads by simply charging a flat monthly fee for X number of spots on a homepage or throughout the site. If you are…
For twitter ads, clicks aren’t what they seem
I was doing some twitter ads recently as a test and noticed something strange. When setting up the ad I chose to drive “clicks” to my website. So when I saw that they had generated dozens of clicks in a few days I was ecstatic. BUT when I checked my web stats I could only…