Linkedin has a lot of eyeballs and if you play your cards right you can leverage it for a certain amount of free traffic. Here’s how I do it. If you have a job board you’re going to need a blog for this. A simple wordpress site or tumblr will do the trick. Create a…
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Social media and job boards (free)
Glassdoor is now letting its users connect with social networks like facebook. ERE has a writeup on it. They join a growing number of businesses trying to open up your job search in order to uncover connections at companies you may want to work for such as Branchout, Beknown, Jibe, Gethired, etc. SimplyHired has been…
Hack to uncover recruiter emails (premium)
Some people on linkedin put their email address in their profile which makes it publicly available, especially a lot of recruiters. Click the link below to view an example; site:linkedin.com (intitle:com OR gmail.com OR yahoo.com) keywords title “greater new york city area” -inurl:dir Do your own search by changing the text after ‘keywords title’…for example,…
Secret advertising tip for job boards
If you haven’t considered advertising on LinkedIn you may want to consider it. They now allow you to advertise to GROUPS. Since LI is now a massive competitor to all us job boards we might as well use it to our advantage. Much like facebook and Google adwords you just need a few bucks a…
Thoughts on linkedin vs job boards (free)
There’s a post on Forbes entitled ‘Linkedin is about to put job boards out of business‘. Although I know the author Dan Schwabel and like him, he is off-base with his assumptions. LinkedIn just announced a new feature that allows job seekers to ‘apply with linkedin’. Its a button that companies can put on their…
Another way to get more traffic (premium)
This is the last of my screencasts on LinkedIn. Its proven to be a great traffic generator and lead database. Here’s one more way to leverage it for your job board.