Glassdoor is now letting its users connect with social networks like facebook. ERE has a writeup on it. They join a growing number of businesses trying to open up your job search in order to uncover connections at companies you may want to work for such as Branchout, Beknown, Jibe, Gethired, etc. SimplyHired has been…
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All the sites I use to stay on top of the job board industry (free)
I keep a close eye on the online recruiting space. There are obvious ways to do that such as google alerts for “new job boards“, but here is a list of sites that I visit each week to make sure I’m on top of this ever changing industry. 1. JobBoarders (I founded this site in…
Spreading your site everywhere (free)
I stumbled across worktree.com the other day. Its one of the original job board directories that actually charges users. I remember seeing this site over 10 years ago. Its a remarkable feat that they are still in business. They must have a nice revenue stream of paying users to still be around. Anyway you can…
How much can you make with backfill? (premium)
Backfill is a great supplemental revenue source for job boards. A few years ago CollegeRecruiter.com switched their entire site to showcase Indeed.com backfill. Their president tells me it makes a great revenue stream for a site with hundreds of thousands of page views. So I asked my contact at Indeed what you can expect to…
2012 hiring predictions (free)
Just did some research for y’all about the 2012 hiring outlook. Overall it looks slightly stronger than last year. My boards were up around 20% from 2010 and I expect about the same as we enter this year. A recent survey of economists by the Associated Press says to expect an avg of 175,000 new…
How to restart a used job board (premium)
Throughout the years I’ve bought various job boards and relaunched them in order to turn them around. The most recent ones were four dot net sites—longislandjobs.net, philadelphiajobs.net, baltimorejobs.net and washingtondcjobs.net. They were all using some basic job board software so I initially put them on Jobamatic (pre-Google PANDA) and watched their traffic soar. But then…
New survey has good news for job boards
There is a myth that has been pervasive in online recruiting that job boards are old news. But those of us who run them know the truth. Job boards will be around for many years to come. Yesterday on TLNT they published a story about a new survey that paints a rosy picture for the…
How many applications is enough (premium)
Ever wondered how many job applications a typical job should get? I got this question recently and my answer is that it varies greatly depending on the kind of job it is. My guess is between 20-200. But the more entry-level a job is the more applies it tends to get. An entry level marketing…
Long live the job posting! (premium)
If you google the phrase ‘job boards are dying‘ you’d think our industry is headed down in flames. But I’m here to tell you that’s bullshit. The truth is that the big national sites like Monster, CareerBuilder and Dice are the ones that have lost momentum in the online recruiting space. Social media gets all…
How much can a niche board make? (free)
Lots of people ask me how much a job board can make. I usually start by telling them the job board industry is a very mature one which means there are no get rich quick sites you can launch. You can however launch one and run it on the side and get supplemental income from…