Job boards are evolving. If you are starting a job board today you need to keep in mind trends in the online job market so that your site contains the latest features that job seekers expect. Here are 3 things that every new job board should have. 1. Mobile friendly/mobile apply. Most job seekers are…
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How much should I expect to make with a job board? (member only)
So big job baords like Monster still make a couple hundred million per year. Sites like Ontargetjobs.com make a few million per year and then there’s the rest of the job board market. Established niche players that have been around for several years make six figures. The rest squeeze by with $10-25k per year. A…
How to start a job board
Lately I’ve been getting lots of calls from newbies who want to start their own job board. So with their questions fresh in my mind I wanted to summarize how to start a job board from the ground up. First, a warning. If you are not experienced in the operations of a website I suggest…
Nursingjobs.com stands up against bad browsers!
I love this story. IE 7 just needs to die already. Instead of designing their job site to support older browsers like IE 7, Nursingjobs.com said screw it! Its cheaper for us to just buy new pcs for our clients so they have the latest version. Hows that for responsive web design! Read the story…
Dynamic job post buttons
I think I just created what might be the first dynamic job post button in the industry. In looking for ways to encourage more postings to my new hidden job leads site, we implemented a post button that brings in the location of the page the user is on so that the message on the…
New job boards
Here are some new job boards coming on the scene… Women of STEM targets women in science, tech and math. http://jobs.thejobnetwork.com/home?affiliateid=2583 OhYouHero out of Boston aims to be craigslist/linkedin for freelancers. Thats a tough market to be in because there are oDesk and Elance dominate but I wish them luck. Not sure I like the…
Question about pre-populating a job board (member only)
A reader asked me a good question the other day. He writes; I am planning to start my niche job board in Finland. In order to start I was thinking of going through companies’ career pages and then copy their job on my job board. My job board though would act only as a gathering…
Thinking different with premium job leads
When it comes to recruitment products I like to think different. After launching CareerCloud last year the site did not have a way for employers to promote themselves. But that changes in 2014. We’re launching something called “Premium Job Leads“. These are not job postings, rather a way to announce how many jobs your company…
What happens when your job board isnt growing (member only)
Recently I talked to a job board owner who was worried that his job board isnt growing. The site was in the work at home niche and was getting around 14k monthly uniques along with 70k monthly page views. As we checked the google stats traffic was steady this year but down about 5% from…
Whats my site worth? (member only)
A reader recently emailed me to ask what his site was worth because he wanted to sell it. As I questioned him about its traffic and sales I spoted some redflags and wanted to share them. I’ve sold many sites so I want to help you get an idea of what potential buyers look for….