Q. What are the pros and cons of Indeed vs. Jobamatic? Good question my reader asks. Here’s a quick breakdown of each and its capabilities. SIMPLY HIRED’S JOBAMATIC Pro: Free hosting Pro: Two ways to earn: clicks and postings Pro: lots of jobs Pro: setup quickly and easily Pro: xml feed available Con: design limitations…
Category: Job Board Software
Job board software platforms and vendor updates.
Quick tip on the software I use (free)
A reader asks: what software are you using to create your home pages? Did you create your own logo or outsource the design? First I do most of my own coding when it comes to creating a page for my job boards. If I’m starting one with Jobtarget I’ll create a template which is basically…
The hardest thing about running free job boards
I wrote a post on RecruiitngBlogs yesterday about how crappy jobs are getting on our old friend Craigs site. It got me thinking about free job boards. I have one called GreenJobsFree.com which I started almost 2 years ago. Its grown into a small niche board that I use to attract original jobs.
The Freemium Job Board (free)
Most job boards are either free or paid. But very few offer a ‘freemium‘ model where some things are free and some products are paid for. As things get more “free-er” (and more people will expect free) I think a freemium model is a good way to go for some job boards. You could offer…
Job board software update (free)
I like to check up on the software vendors from time to time to see whats new. I think a few may be going into the deadpool. JobBoardsHQ: is a hosted solution that looked promising and was started out of India. But their twitter stream is outdated and my email to them went unanswered. I…
Make your own job aggregator
Want to setup your own aggregator? Here’s a script called JobGeni that lets you tap into Indeed, SimplyHired and also lets you add other RSS job feeds. Its a self-installed job software. There are no job postings so you could only make money with Adsense. Cost is $199. JobGeni is a PHP Job Search Engine…
New wordpress job board plugin!
WordPress plugim company Appthemes has published a new job board software plugin called JobRoller. It is available for $69 – $199 depending on the version you get. It has a pretty solid interface which these plugins all seem to do well at. But there is no support for backfill and the only payment option appears…
A great job description page (premium)
I came across a new job board for PR professionals that caught my eye for its unique design.
A job board with wordpress (premium)
Here’s a pretty cool way to create a job board with a wordpress blog. The one downside is that is does not allow backfill from the job search engines, but its a nice piece of job board software.
New job board software: jobboardspro
Another self-installed software for job boards is out. This one is called Job Boards Pro. Price is $195. According to the site: “A solution designed for your needs built with our wide variety of objects and layouts. Web based application written in PHP and using the MySQL database” You can test it; Front Page Administrator…