Ideas for new job boards.
I was chatting with a sales rep from Jobcase, the popular job market for hourly workers and he told me something interesting. They are doing 500 virtual event per week! Considering that last year they only did 2000 total, you can see why that’s a massive increase. Holding your own virtual job fair offers a…
In the past year a number of my initial consulting phone calls have centered around the entrepreneur building a job board built around content. And to me, this is a tried and true way of making money in online recruiting. There are a number of successful so-called “job boards” that built their business off the…
It’s getting harder and harder to find a niche that offers potential to a new job board but I believe I have found one. Manufacturing. In the past couple of years a number of “blue collar” sites and marketplaces have begun to get traction. For example; Jobcase got $100 million in funding for its blue…
I can’t recall where I saw this stat but somewhere I read that if you are one of the first 10 people to apply for a job you are much more likely to be interview/hired. So why not help job seekers do this through a job board. How? Here’s how; First, this job board should…
Lately I have been thinking about creating a text only job board. It’s a simple, one page website like what you see below. Texting open rates are at 95%+ vs. ~20% for email according to text recruiting software company Emissary. So why aren’t more job boards adding text to the mix? I feel like there…
Gig sites are the new niche job boards. Yep its true. If you look at the market that already exists, gig style job sites are proliferating everywhere.
In case you hadn’t noticed there are big changes happening in the job board world. Now that Facebook and Google are in the game, the market is even more crowded and they are putting pressure on boards of all sizes and shapes. Things are changing at a rapid pace. This new trend will certainly begin to…
Jobs with Relo is a new site that launched a few months ago. Built with the Jobboard.io platform, it is my most recent site launch. i saw a niche that has yet to be touched and thought it was worth a try to get it online. It targets only jobs that come with relocation assistance…
Are you holding a job fair soon? Many job boards have found success with offline hiring events as a way to brand themselves and make money. One of my current online businesses can certainly help you promote it. Two years ago I launched Jobfairing.com, a directory/search engine for discovering job fairs across the USA. Today…
Back when I was still running my previous job board (ACJ) I recorded this video about a new job board idea. Time has passed (7 years), but I still think it’s a site that needs to exist. Basically it’s a concept to allow job seekers to target individual companies by pitching themselves in a “I…