AgHires is a long running successful niche job board began in 2014. They offer job advertising/recruiting within the agriculture, agribusiness, food production, bioscience, ag technology, and horticulture industries. They are what I call a “hybrid job board” that uses a business model with job postings and deeper recruiting products like candidate outreach. They sell the…
A reader asks… I hear Indeed is ending their CPA (story). Do you think this will affect revenue for boards that used this as a stream of income? Just curious of your thoughts on this topic. My Response… Well it wasn’t on Indeed for very long so i don’t think it will affect anyone else. If it…
A reader with a remote job board emailed me the follwing; Ok, these are my numbers… My Response… The remote jobs niche is currently over saturated. It’s the wrong niche to get into. Too many competitors. In addition, a job board is a long term project. Very few if any boards get traction in the…
I came across this reddit thread where a tech guy launched a tech job board but was struggling to make money (not surprising in tech) then figured out a way to monetize his job seekers. Watch to find out how.
area|Talent, a career strategy company, has announced the rollout of their new AI-powered job seeker platform, designed to help job seekers of all levels streamline their job search process. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of services, including resume building, resume writing, interview coaching, cover letter writing, resume scoring, and LinkedIn profile reviews. I can…
Speculation around Google for Jobs continues but no one is quite sure what the paid version will look like nor how it will be implemented. I brought in the founder of programmatic job advertising platform JobAdX to discuss. Listen to the 20 minute podcast below. TRANSCRIPT Chris Russell: All right, at the recent HR Tech…
So this past weekend Google sent me an email congratulating my site (EvilHRjobs.com) for achieving 1,800 clicks in the past 28 days. I was happily surprised, so I went to my analytics to see what the spike looked like. But I found no such spike in traffic. I checked both my web stats and for…
There has been a lot of speculation in our industry about Google for Jobs and the impending paid job ad program. Currently they are testing paid job ads with a few big players like LinkedIn. Rumor is that it will soon be opened up to more publishers but the question is how? As of now,…
A question I often get is if you should build your own job board instead using off the shelf software. My answer is generally no, you shouldn’t build. Unless… If you have a very specific type of job board in mind with features you don’t typically find on existing software you will need to build…
Last week I learned that HiringOpps, a job board software platform is closing up operations in the U.S. Their homepage now just features a login screen, seemingly to allow any existing clients to access their data. So what does this mean for the future of job board software? Job board software has come and gone…