In a surprise announcement last month, Facebook says it plans to shut down its Jobs Marketplace everywhere except the U.S. and Canada in February 2022. ATS vendors and job boards will also no longer have access or support to its APIs either, a service that fed jobs into the marketplace from outside publishers. My buddy…
Category: Industry News
Job board news and notes form the industry.
Regional Canadian Job Board Acquired
CareerBeacon a regional job board that serves the Atlantic part of Canada (i.e. New Foundland) has been acquired by Alongside, a Moncton-based human resource technology company. The news comes from the Recruitment Flex podcast. Listen to the news below. You can also read about it on the CareerBeacon site here. Alongside has plans to expand…
New Oilfield Job Board Launches
Niche job boards are popping up everywhere due to the main challenge of hiring in this difficult labor market. The latest to hit the market is this oilfield job board for the midwest. The site appears to be some sort of WordPress job board theme. Rainmakers Media Group is behind a new regional oilfield job board aimed…
Do we need another employer review site?
I don’t envy Jobsage, a new employer review site. They have an uphill climb ahead if they plan on taking on the likes on Indeed and Glassdoor. It’s hard for me to imagine the web needs another review site. Glassdoor and Indeed OWN this space plus employers dont really like them. Jobsage is going to…
New Job Board Launches for Security Jobs
Ttpster, LLC, a veteran owned small business based out of Arlington, Virginia, has launched TtpsterJobs (www.ttpsterjobs.com), a job board created exclusively for the security industry. It is built upon the Jobboard.io platform. According to the press release; After decades of working in the security industry, Ttpster [pronounced “Tip-ster”], founder and CEO, Kevin O’Neill sought to…
SmartJobBoard adds Appcast Backfill Option
The team at SmartJobBoard is constantly improving their product suite. They seem to launch something new quarterly and are still the best game in town for job board software. They recently announced an integration with Appcast that make it easier for job board owners to populate their job database with full listings direct from the…
Poached Launches Poached Shifts for Hospitality Staffing
Poached, a jobs marketplace for the hospitality industry, has launched a new service called Poached Shifts. Any job marketplace needs to evolve over time so this seems like a good move for the Poached team. Poached aims to solve the industry’s competitive labor market and high employee turnover by providing hospitality employers the flexibility of…
Publicly Traded Job Boards Report Revenue Increases
Three publicly traded job board companies DHI Group (owner of Dice and ClearanceJobs) and Professional Diversity Networks (they wn several diversity sites) and Ziprecruiter have reported increases in revenue from the last quarter. PDN “Our PDN Network continues to show stability with its third consecutive strong quarter of fiscal 2021. We believe that there is…
Job Board Events
I will be starting planning for the 2022 Job Board Con soon. I expect to hold it sometime in Marc(virtually). In the meantime here’s a few other events you may want to check out this month. Matt Lozar from Haley Marketing is holding this on Tuesday Nov 16th. From companies across the industry, a constant…
Job Board Headlines
ZipRecruiter®, a leading online employment marketplace, today announced that the company will report third quarter 2021 financial results on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. On that day, management will host a conference call and webcast at 2:00pm PT (5:00pm ET) to discuss the company’s business and financial results. Event: ZipRecruiter Third Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call Date:…