We are about 3 weeks in to the launch of Google Jobs. There’s lots of buzz in the industry and questions still abound. Here’s a 5 minute screencast of some things I learned about whats happening with it. Anybody else wish for pagination in results? Would be nice if they also showed a count of…
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Best Candidates for Job Boards: Established Sites
Recently I helped the team at Agency Checklist launch this new job board. Powered by a WordPress theme, it’s a “hyper-niche” site that targets Massachusetts insurance jobs. And they are off to a strong start having already sold several postings in the first month. A big reason for this is their existing audience. AgencyChecklist.com has…
The Redirect Conundrum
I have a job board client with a problem. They have a number of employers which they scrape and send the job seeker back to their ATS to apply. In the process the employer only sees the number of clicks that were sent along with the phrase ‘Anonymous’ in their dashboard. The problem is that…
How to get your site in Google Jobs
Now that Google Jobs has launched many job boards are scrambling for how to be included. I saw one comment last week that Snagajob saw a 9% increase in traffic from it. Not bad. The new search function will definitely be a boost to the initial list of included sites. I’ve done a lot of…
CareerBuilder finally found a Buyer
Initial reports that CareerBuilder was going to be bought for 1 billion were debunked last week when a private equity group and a teachers pension fund, bought a majority stake in the company. According to an ERE report, the deal values the company around $500 million. Thats about $71 million more than what Monster recently…
Glassdoor Claims #2 Traffic Spot Among Job Sites
Based on unique users, custom job list sites and the % Change Media Trend Report by comScore Glassdoor now claims 45 million monthly uniques. Indeed.com is of course number one, CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com and ZipRecruiter.com round out the top 5 job boards in the country. I believe Indeed is around 200 monthly uniques but that is…
3rd Party Widgets for Your Job Board
I use a bunch of third party tools to enhance my clients job boards. Here’s a quick list of widgets to add to your own. Feedburner – RSS feed management Feedmikle – RSS feed management with a paid version Statcounter – easy stats Sumo – social sharing/email collection Dlvr.it – social media management I use…
Job Posting Schema – Why Your Job Board Needs It
A SEO expert who I read regularly thinks the Google Jobs results are being driven by sites that employ a certain job level schema. He’s probably right. Google needs job data in a specific format and sites that use it are in a better position to be ranked. In the post he points out two examples…
How NOT to Design Your Job Board
Check out this poor excuse for a job board homepage. It sucks. I don’t know how else to describe it.
Thoughts on Google Jobs
Well, the rumors were confirmed last week when Google’s CEO announced they will be officially entering the recruitment space with their own job search engine at the Google I/O conference. The news in recent months about their jobs API and more recently the Google Hire ATS were clues to their job search ambitions. And just like…