If you want to know where the job board market is headed look no further than these 3 sites. To me they are where things are going. Meaning a more VISUAL job experience including behind the scenes looks at companies. These 3 sites are leading with pictures not job listings. The job listings are just…
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Improving your apply ratio for employers (member only)
Is your job board apply ratio going down threatening to devalue your site in the eyes of employers using you? Consider this question I got from a reader. I have long used our website as a blog to highlight jobs. We push content of many different kinds. Have found that increasingly candidates are not crazy…
Thoughts on aggregating jobs (member only)
Lately a lot of talk in the job board industry has been around aggregation. Linkedin will be going it. So will Monster. Aggregating jobs is becoming commonplace. So what is a niche job board supposed to do? I think job boards need to start adding their own aggregation. Its a feature employers are beginning to…
Sell your own ads (member only)
Most job boards only use adsense or other ad networks to generate revenue from ads. But few take advantage of selling their own. Over the years I’ve sold dozens of my own ads by simply charging a flat monthly fee for X number of spots on a homepage or throughout the site. If you are…
Content ideas for job boards (member only)
Need content for your job board? Here are my ideas for what to write and where to get it. To read this article become a premium member.
Whats wrong with this job board? (member only)
Simplicity in job board design is important. Your goal should always be to help employers post jobs quickly and easily OR help job seekers get to the jobs they seek with little effort. When I came upon CMShires.com the other day I was both elated and saddened at the same time. I was elated for…
Tool to make email marketing automated and fresh (premium)
I’ve written a lot in the past about Email Grabber. Another great tool is Atom Park software. They offer several email marketing solutions including SMTP servers, Email extractors and more. Since you need to find email addresses of employers to keep your lead gen going check out that they do. Extract emails from other job…
Can you charge job seekers for stuff? (member only)
Let me just say right upfront that job seekers are the most frugal consumers on the internet. They don’t pay for shit! However you can eek out a few dollars here and there from them if you make it cheap enough and only rely on it as a secondary revenue source. I’ve been running job…
Chicken or the egg problem for new job boards (member only)
A reader asks; We are about to launch the website, and now the main question that still remains open is “That awkward moment when jobseeker or employer enters the website for the first time and finds out that our CV or Jobs database is empty”. How this problem is usually solved? What was your solution…
What type of job board should you start? (member only)
I think the best way to look at this question is to first pick a hot job market. A job market (industry) is hot if the companies are having a hard time finding talent for it or its an up and coming type of job (ex: drone pilots). Then you must look at what existing…