There is an awesome niche job board that I would love to own. Its an example of a job board done right from start to finish. http://www.authenticjobs.com/ AJ has been around for a few years (since ’05) and I just love how simple it is, how professional it looks and the results it delivers. As…
Category: Critiques
Critiques of different job boards.
The Most Simple Job Board Home Page Ever
The home page of http://www.freelancer.com/ has the most simplest effective homepage I’ve ever seen on a job board. Two buttons: hire/work The simplicity of their site warms my heart. Its a great lesson for those of you starting new job boards or thinking of redesigning your current site.
RanchWork launches on WordPress
RanchWork.com, a niche job board for working on ranches out west has recently launched. The owner Peter Askew recently emailed me to say that it took him about 3 weeks to configure the backend using a wordpress job board theme called Templatic. Its a simple site that has a post a job or post a…
Critique of a job board (member only
Recently I was aked by a client to critique his nursing job board. Instead of a call he asked me to write it as a report. I wanted to share those details with you. I cant tell the name of the website due to confidentiality but I think you’ll find some useful nuggets here for…
myCNAjobs.com is a well designed job board
Niche job board myCNAjobs.com has a new look which I really dig. Its one of those “micro-niche” type job boards that focus on one type of job. In this case, Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). They just introduced a new “badging” system for their job seekers. According to the article; For those on the job hunt,…
Niche job board I admire: Stack Overflow Careers
Last Saturday I attended my first recruiting “unconference” at the offices of Stack Overflow in lower Manhattan. An unconference is a one day event where the sessions consist of a track leader who introduces a topic to a group and then lets the group take the discussion to wherever they want. truNewYork was put on by @billboorman….
The one thing you need to do if you are niche job board (member-only)
You need to explicitly say who you are/what you do. I was recently tipped off to a new niche job site called Harri.com. When I first went to it I saw this home page. Ok its a nice looking site but what the NICHE do they serve? It is not immediately clear that they serve the restaurant…
Tale of 2 New Job Boards (premium)
Ok so I discovered two new job boards that launched recently but the difference between them is night and day. One is doomed to fail, the other should do just fine. The difference between them is all about design. One sucks, the other doesn’t. Each of these sites put out a press release. PowerPlantWorker.com: prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9441320.htm…
Thoughts on some new job startups (free)
I ran into a couple of new job startups that caught my eye and wanted to provide some commentary on these ideas. First up is a site uniquely called JobsnoteSteve.com. Not your average job board name but I like the play on words. Its creative. The site itself is built on Indeed.com’s API but it’s…
Smackdown of a job board (free)
The NY Times has a blog that critiques websites and I stumbled across this post about a site called DirectApproachSolutions.com that claims to be the ‘eHarmony of jobs‘. The Times asked readers to comment on the site and they gave it scathing reviews but I wanted to chime in as well. First of all, lets…