If you have been thinking about selling your job board there are probably people who would want to buy it right now. A number of people have been contacting me lately to see if I know of any on the market. I have helped a number of job sites to find a buyer in the…
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Chatbots for Job Boards
I think chatbots are a good tactic to use on most web sites as another channel for engagement, customer service and marketing. Perhaps not if you only run your board on the side, but if you work on it full time consider adding a chatbot to the mix. Here’s a list of them. The job…
New Job Sites: SearchRemotely, Knack, DiverseJobs
New Site for Nursing Jobs NurseEarth.com is one of my clients job boards that just launched which I helped configure and launch. The company is a staffing agency for nurses and was looking to add a job board to the mix. Check it out. Search Remotely Launches Remote Jobs Platform Search Remotely has launched a…
CareerBliss Moves to Free Job Postings for 2020
A number of recruitment sites and vendors are offering free tools and services in response to the current pandemic. In times like this, I think these are solid moves by vendors to stay relevant and do their part to help employers. Your job board may want to follow this example and think about how you…
New Job Community Tracks Layoffs Launches
LayOffers.com is a brand new community site that tracks layoffs to support workers and connect job candidates with top recruiters at no cost. Tech executive, Jeffrey Jewett, founded the service in early 2020 with a mission to help one million displaced workers. Jewett accelerated its launch in light of the economic uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19…
“Essential” Job Sites
As the virus outbreak takes hold in the U.S. a number of virus related job boards have popped up. Techcrunch has a story of one, the NRF created a retail job resource page and even Bayard Advertising got into the act with HiringAgain.com. States are getting into the act as well and this one from…
Running Your Job Board in the Age of Coronavirus
In the span of a few short weeks the job market has turned upside down and the world is facing a global recession. These are trying times for anyone in the HR world. I have been through these boom cycles many times before. It seems like every ten years or so we are faced with…
New Hiring App: Paths
Paths is a new platform from HiringSolved based out of Arizona. This is their first consumer job search app. The company says; “We’re building it because we believe that if we can make hiring better, we can make life better for many people. We’re building it because nothing much has changed in work-finding apps in…
The Spreadsheet Job Board
Open source spreadsheets are having a moment. When online retailer Wayfair recently announced layoffs a recruiter at the company created a spreadsheet on Google Drive that she made public with the names and contact information of those laid off. It went viral and many people were able to land jobs because of its creation. Then…
1999 Called, They Want Their Logo Back
I don’t know who owns humanresources.com but they need to do themselves a favor and get a new logo. The current one looks as if it hasn’t changed since 1999. That’s apparently when this site launched which is a surprise to me. I never knew this site even existed until the other day. And I…