Once of my recent clients asked me this question and I wanted to put this down “on paper” while its still fresh. Newbies in this industry often underestimate the time and effort required to make a job board sustainable. Starting a job board is easy but maintaining/growing it is the hard part. So here are…
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Everywhere Job Aggregators
Now that Indeed.com has taken over the world and turned aggregation into a primary service, other job boards are now entering the fray. First Monster made an announcement a few weeks ago and then Linkedin says they’ll be doing it too. I expect CareerBuilder to follow suit later this year. These recent changes signal a…
Whats wrong with this job board? (member only)
Simplicity in job board design is important. Your goal should always be to help employers post jobs quickly and easily OR help job seekers get to the jobs they seek with little effort. When I came upon CMShires.com the other day I was both elated and saddened at the same time. I was elated for…
For small biz, job boards are still the best way to recruit
If it weren’t for job boards small businesses would have no place to post their jobs and get resumes. I know this because I’m recruiting for a small tech company in Connecticut now. Since no one really knows our company name that well I HAVE to use job boards in order to create applicant flow….
Can you charge job seekers for stuff? (member only)
Let me just say right upfront that job seekers are the most frugal consumers on the internet. They don’t pay for shit! However you can eek out a few dollars here and there from them if you make it cheap enough and only rely on it as a secondary revenue source. I’ve been running job…
Chicken or the egg problem for new job boards (member only)
A reader asks; We are about to launch the website, and now the main question that still remains open is “That awkward moment when jobseeker or employer enters the website for the first time and finds out that our CV or Jobs database is empty”. How this problem is usually solved? What was your solution…
What type of job board should you start? (member only)
I think the best way to look at this question is to first pick a hot job market. A job market (industry) is hot if the companies are having a hard time finding talent for it or its an up and coming type of job (ex: drone pilots). Then you must look at what existing…
Dice buys another job board – OilCareers
Last week Dice.com bought another niche job board, this time picking up UK based Oilcareers.com. The press release actually mentions the sales of Oilcareers.com which I thought was very interesting and indicative of their strategy in the job board industry. Dice Holdings, Inc. is purchasing OilCareers from the Daily Mail and General Trust PLC (LON:…
Starting slowly (member only)
Got off the phone just now with a client who has a blog and wants to add a job board piece to it. He’s been blogging for a while about careers in a certain niche and already has 5,000 monthly visitors. This is a great way to start a job board. By actually just writing…
Lets get visual (member only)
Since the web is getting more visual I think job boards need to start doing so as well. I think job descriptions need to get much more visual! With more colors, more social integration and more logos. A job board that starts to take design of its job descriptions more creatively will have a way…