AgHires is a long running successful niche job board began in 2014. They offer job advertising/recruiting within the agriculture, agribusiness, food production, bioscience, ag technology, and horticulture industries. They are what I call a “hybrid job board” that uses a business model with job postings and deeper recruiting products like candidate outreach. They sell the…
When it comes to setting prices for your job board there are no rules but here are some guidelines to go by based on my twenty years of experience. It depends on the niche you serve If your site target low end, hourly workers then companies are only willing to pay lower prices. For them,…
One of the most common questions I hear from job board owners is how to price their site. For me this greatly depends on several factors including; Country you operate in Niche you service Amount of competition Your reach COUNTRY If you operate in the USA job post prices here are among the lowest in…
How you display your job board pricing can affect your sales. I see too many boards that hide this info and make it hard to read. When it comes to designing this page you have to make it public (don’t require registration to see pricing) and EASY to understand. Recruiters are BUSY people, don’t make…
In addition to running this blog I have a new full time gig as Director of Digital Recruiting for a cruise line company here in Connecticut. My position allows me to try a lot of job boards and influence the direction for all of our recruitment marketing. This week I tried posting on a bunch…
One of the questions I often get is…how much should I charge employers to post a job? Well the answer should depend on your existing competition. If you are a new job board entering a market with other sites I suggest undercutting them in price in order to gain market share. But at a minimum…
Hey job boards, dont hide your pricing information! The owner of carjobsearch.com recently emailed me and when I went to his site I saw this; Now its a french site (for Quebec, CA) so perhaps the image on the right side says it but i dont see any pricing info on the homepage. I think…
A new member asks: What drives the pricing model of most websites? When is it better to be more expensive and when is it a better strategy to be the cost effective strategy? …and my answer is… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_9WDcRpeyg[/youtube]
Trying to figure out what to charge for job postings can be a trick business. Here’s some advice for how to price your job board offerings. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3myU7bk9b6c[/youtube]