I was at a conference recently when another job board owner posed this question to me. Why is there no other site that targets part-time jobs other than Snag-a-Job? Its a good question and one I have been wondering about myself. A few years back I started looking at that space. Here’s what I found….
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Questions from a young entrepreneur
I got a nice email from an NYU student about being an entreprenuer. I thought I would share since they were great questions. Q. I’m toying with the idea of quitting grad-school and going full-time on my 4 month old startup..what is your philosophy on the value of education in school vs education via building…
Job boards aint dying
Its time for another one of those posts. Yes every year you see it in the blogs and twittersphere saying that job boards are dead. Phooey! Job boards are alive and well, especially the niche ones. Just look at this recent source of hire study from ATS vendor SilkRoad. For external hires, job boards lead…
Defender of job boards and other musings (audio)
Check out my interview from earlier today on the HR Examiner Radio show with John Sumser. In it you can hear me talk about social, mobile and of course job boards. Listen to internet radio with HRExaminer Radio on Blog Talk Radio
These job board owners pivoted to T-shirts
I ran into this interview with the founders of a site called Jobzle. In it, they detail how they crashed and burned with that site. You’ll hear some valuable lessons about starting an online recruiting business.
Should you add video to your job board?
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…
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.