My pal Joe Stubblebine, formerly of Beyond/Nexxt and now at Lensa.com emailed me last week with some news of a new revenue widget they are working on. This widget doesn’t list jobs on your site but rather shows a user relevant jobs from Lensa only if they click the back button when leaving your site. Here’s how…
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Thinking about designing your own job board?
I have spoken to a number of people over the years who have made a certain big mistake when they launched their site. They paid a web design firm with no experience building job boards to do it. Needless to say, these firms tend to build sites that are not quite optimized for job board…
Job Boards in the News
Google Cloud Signs More Job Board Partners RecruitMilitary is collaborating with Google Cloud to change the way jobs are found by military-trained talent. By working with Google Cloud to integrate their search and artificial intelligence into our job board, RecruitMilitary can take the guesswork out of the job search process. These enhanced search capabilities will…
Archinect Introduces ‘Jobs Visualizer’
Its my job to point out interesting things in the job board world. Case in point is the new ‘Jobs Visualizer‘ is one of those. It is a visual way of browsing employers who are hiring on Archinect, a site for architecture jobs. With Archinect Jobs Visualizer, the design work produced by the employers takes center stage….
Cool Job Board Design: NoFluffJobs
A reader of mine emailed me last week to point out a tech job board out of Poland that has an interesting take on design. Here’s a quick screencast of NoFluffJobs. They take a minimal design approach and make it easy as heck to scan and apply to postings.
Job Board Newsletters
I have come across a few clients lately who haven’t taken advantage of emailing their employers. Every job board should be communicating with its employers at least once a month. In this screencast you’ll see a good example of one from Mac’s List a local job board out of Oregon. Email is a channel you own…
Making Your Job Description Pages More Scannable
The look of job description pages across job boards and applicant tracking systems hasn’t changed much since jobs were online. They are generally full of text and way too long. But I think its time for job publishers to come up with some new designs that make them more “scannable” for the web. I’m not…
New site for Robot Jobs
A new niche job board has been spotted in the wild, this one targets robots/AI/connected devices. Robots.jobs is powered by the Career Leaf platform. There is an immediate problem of filling positions at companies developing or building robots across the USA. Robots.jobs is a new tool for matching specialized talent with employers in robotics, artificial intelligence, and related…
FireBrickGroup Wants to Help Boards Monetize Resumes
The team over at FireBrickGroup is looking for job boards to partner with. Specifically around email alerts. Send them your daily feed of your jobs and jobseekers. They will create daily behavioral job alerts for your jobseekers with up to 3 of your jobs at the top positions at no cost to you. They will then match our backfill…
This Niche Job Market Just Got $60 Million in Funding!
Wow. A company called RigUp which operates a mobile/web platform that connects energy industry professionals to employers in the oil and gas field just raised $60 million in new funding. That has got to be a record for a niche job board. RigUp is an example of the next generation of job boards that are…