In honor of small business week the folks at Indeed put out a video which shows some behind the scenes action at the job board juggernaut. They seem to put in a lot of effort in outreach and customer service. You might learn a thing or two for your own team from this short video….
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Cool twitter bootstrap job board theme
Found this cool new job board theme built off twitter bootstrap so its mobile friendly. Check out this live preview. I like how they split the interface into find a job/post a job. Great UX. Its only $15 bucks so if you are looking for a great out of the box design check it out….
For small biz, job boards are still the best way to recruit
If it weren’t for job boards small businesses would have no place to post their jobs and get resumes. I know this because I’m recruiting for a small tech company in Connecticut now. Since no one really knows our company name that well I HAVE to use job boards in order to create applicant flow….
Whats on your job board mind?
Whats top of mind for those of you reading this site? Send me some more ideas for types of content you want me to write about. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/contact/
8 tips for your Jobboard.io site
I’ve been chatting with quite a few users of Jobboard.io recently and as a fan of the new platform myself I’ve picked up some tips and tricks that been useful in configuring these sites for optimal use. 1. Use the Adsense header block for text not ads. In the example below it gives you another…
Jobify is new wordpress job board plugin
Here’s a new mobile friendly wordpress plugin for job boards. Its one of the more elegant designs I have come across. Download it here for $55.
Best options for backfill
Most of the off the shelf job board solutions let you pre-populate your job board with listings from their database. This is called “backfill” and its another way you can earn revenue. Generally speaking its not a lot of money but a job board that gets 10,000 monthly pages views can earn in the ‘hundreds…
Dice buys another job board – OilCareers
Last week Dice.com bought another niche job board, this time picking up UK based Oilcareers.com. The press release actually mentions the sales of Oilcareers.com which I thought was very interesting and indicative of their strategy in the job board industry. Dice Holdings, Inc. is purchasing OilCareers from the Daily Mail and General Trust PLC (LON:…
Is pot the next great job niche?
With the explosion of medical marijuana sweeping many states like Colorado and Washington, I’m starting to wonder if pot is the next great job niche. A quick search of ‘marijuana jobs‘ on Google shows only 2 real sites: Cannajobs.com and THCjobs.com. If you are looking for a niche thats about to take off this one…
We need more aggregators
File this under things that need to exist. We need a job board only job search engine/directory that lets job boards get indexed for free and helps job seekers uncover more sources. I think job seekers are not discovering all the possible jobs that are online, especially among the niche job boards. Indeed.com is listing…