Not really I say. I get questions from people thinking about starting some kind of video resume site or ways to apply via video. But just adding some kind of video component to your job site wont really add much value to the seeker or employer. Employer/recruiters are BUSY people. And I cant stress that…
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Knowing when to shut down a project
More than a year and a half ago I launched JobSpeek. The first app ever to let recruiters posts jobs from their iphone and syndicate them to the major job search engines. It won much praise from industry analysts and such. In fact the YOH Staffing blog called it the ‘future of recruiting’. But even…
Multiple job boards are better than one (member only)
A reader asks: How realistic do you think it is to make £200 or $300 a month from multiple sites? My plan was to say make one sale per day per site? When multiplied by 5, then in theory that’s not bad? Is this achievable do you think? I answer. Dear reader, it is certainly…
10 ways to get job seekers to your site (member only)
Getting job seekers to your job board takes time. That is something most new job board owners dont understand. Even if you have a “cool” site, thats not enough to get peoples attention. You are competing with thousands of business for people’s time. You really need to take an all-the-above-approach and be in it for…
Job board acquisitions and the new year
So this is my last post for the year. My next will be on Jan 3rd or 4th. In the meantime think about 2013 and how you can make your job board better. Recently 2 very different job boards were acquired: Jobcircle and Behance. Jobcircle is a more traditional job board company. Behance is not.
Should I build a Reverse Job Board?
A member wants to know if he should build a site that makes candidates pay. I wrote about it in the past here. These are called ‘reverse job boards’. I’m currently researching building a job board website for tradesmen (builders, plumbers etc). This would be different to your normal job board site in that it’s…
Whats a job domain name worth? (member only)
Last year I was approached by people who owned the domain employment.com. They wanted me to run it. I declined, but what shocked me the most from those conversations was how much they paid for the domain. $1 million. (actually they said ‘seven figures’ so I’m guessing around that number) That’s crazy I thought to…
Another job board gets bought (member only)
This week Jobcircle was acquired by Beyond.com. http://www.ere.net/2012/12/10/beyond-com-buys-jobcircle-will-grow-job-fair-business/ Jobcircle.com is a well established board that serves the mid-atlantic region around Philadelphia-Baltimore. In addition to their job postings they have some innovative services such as Rezrocket and Voiceblast (read about those here). I dont know how much they bought it for but I’d guess between 2x-3x…
Musings of a job board consultant (member only)
Well with December here things (aka sales) will soon be slowing at job boards around the world. This time of year always brings a slowdown as HR budgets have been depleted and recruiting slows to a crawl. And as we enter a new year I cant help but think that job boards are under more…
Your job board customer service
Part of my success at running job boards over the years has been good customer service. Even though the business is mostly an online-transactional one, a personal touch goes a long way towards getting/keeping a client. The first thing I will tell is respond quickly to your emails. Employers and recruiters are BUSY people and…