Last week a surprise email hit my inbox. It was from GoDaddy telling me one of the domains I had listed on their auction site had sold and I was about to receive a few thousand bucks. Not bad for a domain that I spent $100 bucks on years ago. My investment finally paid off….
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Two Niche Job Boards Making Headlines
Over the past few weeks I had the chance to interview two niche job boards that are doing good things in today’s job market. The MOM Project helps moms re-enter the the workforce and 70MillionJobs helps those with criminal histories to get hired. These sites are great examples of filling a niche while having a…
Tech Job Board Acquired
Technical Integrity announced today that it has acquired Find My Flock, a tech focused job board out of Colorado. Technical Integrity was founded by CEO Dave Mayer in 2010 to turn the recruiting industry on its head. “In 2010 we set out to build a new paradigm. We lead an ethical revolution in recruiting with a transparent,…
A Warning to Job Board Software Vendors
In case you haven’t noticed the world of online recruiting is a vastly different one from whence job boards first emerged. The sheer amount of ways to recruit online, from sourcing tools to aggregators, has created a vast ocean of choices for employers to find talent. This means that if your recruiting tool, whatever purpose it serves,…
SmartJobBoard Makes Improvements
Platform provider SmartJobBoard has made some enhancements to their employer dashboard and admin section. Here’s a quick screencast of the new changes.
New Survey Shows Job Seeker’s Use of Job Boards
Here are some good stats to share with your employer clients. A new study shows job boards are the most popular way to look for work according to B2B research firm Clutch. More than 40% of job seekers secure new roles through online job boards, the survey found. This includes general job boards such as Indeed…
Job Board News: .Jobs, HiringThing, VeganJobs, Monster, Indeed
There was an interesting discussion with one of the original investors of Indeed, Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures had on a recent episode of This Week in Startups. In it, he attributed their success partly due to the founds Rony Kahan and Paul Forster. He used the word “ruthless” while describing Forster’s business savvy….
Another Job Board Software Platform Has Launched
A few weeks ago I wrote about JobBoardFire and now comes news of another platform for the job board world. Job Board Kit is based out of the UK and is now open for business. They are also my latest sidebar advertiser. All of a sudden the job board software market is heating up. I attribute…
Q&A with MarketGrabber
MarketGrabber is a longtime provider of job board software. I did a Q&A with Laura Barry, VP of Sales & Marketing over email recently. How long has MG been around? Who is company founder? Our company AlphaPlex, Inc. has been in business since 1997 and is located in Colorado Springs, CO. We began as a…
70MillionJobs Seeks CTO
70 Million Jobs is the first national, for-profit marketplace for 70 million Americans (1 in 3 adults) with criminal records. We’ve created a 2-sided marketplace which looks a lot like a job board (from off-the-shelf technology), and are seeing great growth in both jobs facilitated and revenue. In the past we’ve worked with a dev…