Tech job site Dice.com has enabled messaging on its platform. Messaging of candidates is a solid feature for a job board if you have enough candidates in your database for it to be used. The problem for Dice is that this feature wont do much to boost sales. According to the latest earnings report from…
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World’s largest network for ambitious millennial women Girlboss launches Girl Boss Jobs powered by JobBoardFire Launched in 2017 by Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, Girlboss has over 2M monthly visitors – making it the world’s largest community of ambitious millennial women. It’s now launched Girl Boss Jobs in partnership with Job Board Fire to connect…
New Job Boards Go Online
I spotted two new job boards this week. Here’s a look at what niches they target. Inclusively for Disabled Persons (U.S.) Inclusively, a human-first employment platform built by the disability community to connect candidates with disabilities to inclusive companies and careers, is excited to announce its recent launch on October 13, 2020. Inclusively’s proprietary job matching…
The saga of .jobs continues
A reader tipped me off to a fascinating story about whats going on with the company that owns the .jobs TLD (top level domains). 15 years ago .jobs launched in partnership with SHRM to help employers put their jobs on a .jobs domain. That initiative never caught on so the registry owner Employ Media then…
VC Firm Launches Its Own Job Board
Hack VC, an early-stage venture capital firm, has launched HackJobs.org. With an initial focus on software engineers, HackJobs.org aims to match job seekers with fast growing venture-backed startups. I think a job board is an excellent use case for a VC firm that has invested in 175 startups. It makes sense to help their startups find…
Space Jobs – the Job Board
Space Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the Space economy, today announced the official launch of Space Talent (www.spacetalent.org), an online portal for careers in the space industry and its broader ecosystem. According to their press release; “Space Talent addresses a critical need in the industry right now and is a top priority…
Circa: the Interview
LocalJobNetwork, a company which owns 600+ local job sites recently rebranded to “Circa” (circaworks.com) and I sat down with their CEO Patrick Sheahan for an interview. Check it;
San Francisco Based Joblist is the new kid on the block
Joblist, a job search platform that personalizes the process of finding and landing a job, has launched publicly to address the needs of the millions of Americans facing historic unemployment. They offer some new matching technology and procure jobs from aggregation. The company emailed me a press release last week and says; The platform surfaces AI-driven job…
Indeed’s Capture & Kill Acquisition Strategy
Back in the 2000’s when I ran my local job board network I was constantly worried about competitors and how they were doing. As time passed, some of them went dark or folded and that’s when I pounced on the opportunity to buy their old domains/assets and redirect them to my own site. I reveled…
New Job Board Launches for Sales, Beverage Industries
TitanHouse today announced the launch of its cutting-edge platform for matching: Tech-focused employers with the right sales candidates Tech-focused sales professionals with their most compatible career opportunities The site uses rich, sales-centric data and proprietary technology to make the best possible career matches. Their process drives tremendous transparency and efficiency to the sales recruiting process….