Last week I zoomed with Andrew Stetsenko the founder of Relocate.me a unique global job board serving the tech space that’s been around for a few years now. The site is successful, profitable and growing.
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New Site for Supply Chain Jobs
Congrats to Supply Chain Careers, a past client and newest job board to enter the industry. They want to become the premiere career-long hub for the supply chain community, spanning all industries and functional areas. The company was co-founded by Rodney Apple, Mike Ogle and Hinesh Patel who have extensive experience working on the “talent” side of supply chain management….
Career Advice Content
Virtual Vocations is helping remote professionals take their careers to the next level with the launch of its new Remote Career Center. According to Virtual Vocations CEO Laura Spawn, the launch of the Remote Career Center comes as part of a continued effort to bring valuable, constructive resources to jobseekers and professionals looking to prioritize…
Increasing Your Applies
Job boards are in the apply business. Your job, so to speak, is to drive applies to your paying customers. Without that activity you won’t be in business for long. The standard for how a page handles the apply button has changed. No longer is just having the button on the bottom acceptable. Now you…
Making Money from Resume Affiliates
There are a number of resume affiliates that job boards can take advantage of to earn extra dollars. I highly recommend adding this revenue source to your business model. To me this is low hanging fruit every job board should go after. TopResume is of course the leader in this space but a number of…
CPC Pricing Update – Interview with Appcast
Appcast just released their recruitment marketing benchmark report which tracks CPC job prices. In 2020 the avg CPC (cost-per-click) for job advertising rose to 79 cents, up from 71 cents in 2019. I spoke to their CEO Chris Forman by phone about the new numbers and he gave some insight into what’s happening int he…
Facebook Scraping Job Boards
In the past few weeks I noticed a new referral item in my Google Analytics on two of my job boards. If you navigate to Acquisition > All Traffic > Source/Medium you may find the following entry; jobs_on_facebook / organic This new entry coincides with a Facebook bot I spotted on the stats for RecruitingHRjobs.com…
Job Boards in the News
JobSeer announces the release of its Chrome Extension tool to help individuals shorten the job search process with AI-powered job matching and recommendation features. JobSeer is a product launched by AI recruitment platform Hiretual to empower job seekers with accessible technology to prioritize job searches based on individual preferences and qualifications. Compatible with various job boards, including…
BankTalentHQ: the Interview
Most associations do a poor job at running and marketing their job boards. And that is not surprising to me since most of them have no knowledge of internet marketing techniques. But BankTalentHQ.com, a niche banking job board is the opposite. They push out blog and podcasts on a regular basis and just celebrated their…
Job Boards Getting Funded
Last year was another banner year for HR technology software. That includes a few job communities that I wanted to highlight. A new generation of job platforms are emerging and its exciting to see them innovate and advance how companies recruit talent. Here’s a look at who got funding in 2020 and my take on…