Running a job board? Expect to keep fairly standard business hours. Generally you’ll do most of your business between the hours of 9am and 6pm. That is when most recruiters, HR people and business owners post their jobs. The weekends will bring a job or two but don’t expect much activity. Tuesdays are probably the…
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Dont get into these industries (free)
HuffPost has a slideshow about 10 job markets that will never come back. So these are not job boards niches you should be getting into. The industries are: Construction, Automotive Manufacturing, Realtors, Pharmaceuticals, Newspapers, Airlines, Big Telecom, State/local Govt jobs, Mechanics/Repair, Bank Tellers.
Expectations: The Long Haul (premium)
Job boards are not a get rich quick scheme. Here’s my advice on what expectations you need to have in this business.
How not to launch a job board (premium)
Recently on the Job Boarders blog, this post appeared announcing the launch of laborny.jobs. Its a new site powered by JobCentral and the new dot jobs domain. However they appear to have overhyped its usefulness.
Tip for leveraging aggregators
Here my view of Aggregators like Indeed and SimplyHired and how to leverage their use for your job boards benefit.
3 well designed job boards (free)
I spend a lot of time deconstructing job sites so here are 3 job sites that I admire in terms of design. * Krop * Marketingjobs * Drofficejobs [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHWnU8hJrs[/youtube]
Preventing competition (free)
JOB BOARD TIP: When starting a new job board one of my favorite things to do is buy up as many similar domain name combinations as the domain I am launching with. Doing so allows you to slow down or prevent others from entering your space. Even if the domain is owned by someone else,…
Should your job board be global?
Should a job board be global in focus or country specific? Here’s what I think. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw7nvV3eTHo[/youtube]
Don’t hide your jobs (premium)
I’ve noticed that some job boards hide their jobs or make it difficult to find them.
How much do job boards make? (free)
I saw this article recently about one of the first twitter job sites to come online which got me thinking… “One year after he launched the service, TweetMyJobs.com has become the largest job board on Twitter. It’s on its way to more than $1 million in revenue this year, Zukowski says. The company lists up…