Last week I spoke with the guys at Emissary.ai, a new text recruiting tool born out of the offices of Juju.com the job aggregator. Emissary has a plugin for job boards that helps drive traffic/applies through text reminders. It is currently live on sites like CareersInGovernment.com on their job postings. Emissary has several ways employers…
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SimpleJobSite is a free new job board theme
SJS is a free job board template this is available for free from a UK based company. https://simplejobscript.com/ I assume its a wordpress theme. They offer a “complete” version of it for $25 and hosting for about $4/month. The software appears to only offer Indeed as a backfill option. The interface is nicely designed (you…
WP Job Manager Has a New Version Out
WP Job Manager 1.31.0 has shipped recently. You can download the latest release here or head over to Dashboard → Updates to update your plugins from inside WordPress. Email notifications and support for GDPR highlight this current version. Here’s the punch list of what’s included: Support for sending email notifications Adding the ability to delete plugin data…
JobAdX Seeks Job Board Publishers
If you run a job board, JobAdX wants to chat with you about becoming part of their job ad marketplace. I call their new platform the ‘Adsense for jobs‘. It’s basically another way to backfill your site but it sits in your job results on the first page as kind of a premium in feed…
Well Designed Job Board Home Page
Your job board home page is an important piece of real estate. It’s first priority is to funnel job seekers to jobs or employer to post them. Beyond that it should feature content, be easily navigable and of course, look nice. BankTalentHQ is one of those sites. It offers a great first impression. Take a…
What Job Board Software Vendors Need to Do Next
In case you hadn’t noticed there are big changes happening in the job board world. Now that Facebook and Google are in the game, the market is even more crowded and they are putting pressure on boards of all sizes and shapes. Things are changing at a rapid pace. This new trend will certainly begin to…
The new and improved Jobfairing
Are you holding a job fair soon? Many job boards have found success with offline hiring events as a way to brand themselves and make money. One of my current online businesses can certainly help you promote it. Two years ago I launched Jobfairing.com, a directory/search engine for discovering job fairs across the USA. Today…
Best Candidates for Job Boards: Established Sites
Recently I helped the team at Agency Checklist launch this new job board. Powered by a WordPress theme, it’s a “hyper-niche” site that targets Massachusetts insurance jobs. And they are off to a strong start having already sold several postings in the first month. A big reason for this is their existing audience. AgencyChecklist.com has…
More News and Notes
Greetings folks, I will be at the TA Tech job board event this weekend in Chicago. Hope to see some of you there. In the meantime here are some news items to keep you reading. USAjobs.gov adds new functionality to its job board for seekers. Details here. Virtual Vocations Launches New Employer Job Portal for Companies…
Setting Goals for Your New Job Board
If you have plans to start a full fledged niche job board, here’s the kind of goals you should shoot for; After one year, your goal should be to have at least 5,000-10,000 users coming to your site every month. That is the minimum number of users you need to ensure that employers who post jobs will…