Job board news and notes form the industry.
Aiming to be the LinkedIn of the construction industry; TradeHounds will launch Jobs platform this summer to connect skilled tradespeople with employment opportunities after receiving a new investment of $3.2 million. According to the press release; Construction companies and the staffing firms that support them stand to benefit from immediate access to a larger pool…
Five Bees Media have announced the launch of a new platform aimed exclusively at job-hunting students in Australia. The team behind Backpacker Job Board, Australia’s number one backpacker employment marketplace, have launched Student Job Board. Student Job Board is an Australian-based employment site for students in secondary and tertiary education. Specialising in casual and holiday…
CollegeRecruiter.com is a longstanding entry level job site for people with 0-3 years of experience. I sat down with their founder Steven Rothberg to catch up on their business. TOPICS Can you give us a sense of how big your site is as far as traffic/users? How big is your team? And how’s business I…
Two international based job boards have just received funding. One in Europe, the other based in Vietnam. Investors across the globe are realizing that online job marketplaces are a solid investment. With job seeker activity rising, so are entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on that need. ZENJOBS Gets $30 Million (from TechCrunch) Berlin -based recruitment startup, Zenjob, which…
New Site for Nursing Jobs NurseEarth.com is one of my clients job boards that just launched which I helped configure and launch. The company is a staffing agency for nurses and was looking to add a job board to the mix. Check it out. Search Remotely Launches Remote Jobs Platform Search Remotely has launched a…
A number of recruitment sites and vendors are offering free tools and services in response to the current pandemic. In times like this, I think these are solid moves by vendors to stay relevant and do their part to help employers. Your job board may want to follow this example and think about how you…
LayOffers.com is a brand new community site that tracks layoffs to support workers and connect job candidates with top recruiters at no cost. Tech executive, Jeffrey Jewett, founded the service in early 2020 with a mission to help one million displaced workers. Jewett accelerated its launch in light of the economic uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19…
As the virus outbreak takes hold in the U.S. a number of virus related job boards have popped up. Techcrunch has a story of one, the NRF created a retail job resource page and even Bayard Advertising got into the act with HiringAgain.com. States are getting into the act as well and this one from…
PharmiWeb Ltd, owners of Europe’s largest Pharma Job Board, are pleased to announce that they have launched their latest job board for Pharma and Life Science Jobs in Australasia. The new job board will focus on the Pharma, Life Sciences & Medical Devices sector in Australasia and will give the region’s job seekers a new…
Last Friday was a somber day at ZipRecruiter based in Santa Monica, California. The company reportedly let go nearly 500 of its 1,600 employees. Former employees mentioned the news on LinkedIn through various posts. It affected all departments even engineering. As the economy goes, so does the success of job boards. The vast majority of…