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Should you buy or build your job board software? (member only)By chrisr2 on April 11, 2013 | No Comments
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Awesome new job board software platform
Job board software hasn’t been too exciting lately. The vendors have pretty much stayed staus quo over the past few years since the industry is a mature one. But Jobboard.io is on the scence with an affordable hosted solution that is mobile ready, integrates with backfill and has a great design/user interface.
According to their site they were frustrated by current technologies so they built their own:
We’ve been running niche job boards via 3rd party platforms for years – but quickly grew tired of watching our time and revenue go out the door. Other “free” solutions can get you up and running, but take 50% (or more!) of all your job posting revenue. That just didn’t seem right to us. So we built our own platform focusing on the features that matter most. With fixed monthly pricing, you get to keep the rewards of the effort you put in, and are able to understand and predict your monthly costs.
I took a look at some of the sites they power like bigdatajobs.com and hackernest.com. Notice the big red POST A JOB buttons. I have been advocating those for years and somebody finally built them into the product. And their other features are spot on, custom themes, international payment support, flexible pricing (incl. free), seo friendly, responsive design, a simple backend admin, applicant tracking, custom domains.
Although I havent tested it yet I cant wait to try. The company appears to be based out of New York City.
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New WordPress job site theme: JobEngineBy chrisr2 on December 24, 2012 | 3 Comments
I was recently alerted to a new wordpress theme for a job board. Its called JobEngine. According to its creator, “JobEngine – a Jobboard wordpress theme which is designed based on the needs of Job recruiter, and job hunter.” It does have a mobile friendly version which is essential for job boards today.
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a Jobamatic backfill tipBy chrisr2 on November 28, 2012 | No Comments
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A job board takeover (member only)
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ZipRecruiter launching job alert system for job boards
Looking to make more revenue for your job board? Well ZipRecruiter, a company that has a job distribution network is looking to team up with job boards on a new hosted email job alert system. Basically they will take over your email alerts and help you monetize them. Here are the details;
ZipRecruiter Now Providing Hosted Job Alerts for Job Boards, Publishers, Niche Media, etc.Email Job Alerts are driving growth for our partners in our ever evolving job board industry. ZipRecruiter has been perfecting the science of emailology and we are now offering our hosted solution to a few new partners. The beauty of this program is that better than being free – it makes you money. It’s like backfill for job alerts – but better!
The ZipRecruiter Job Alerts Program
• Completely hosted solution – we do everything
– Custom branded alerts sent to your Job Seekers
– CAN-SPAM compliance
– Advanced matching algorithm ensuring job seekers get the right jobs at the right time
– Mobile optimized – 48% of our job alerts are viewed on a mobile device!
– Emailology – we know the art and science of email – from subject line to content to delivery times. With constant A/B testing our yield has increased 30% in under a year.
– Massive supplemental job content which insures your valuable job seekers get the best jobs – even when you don’t have them on your site.
– Data integrity – TrustE certified – these are your emails, coming from you.
• Monetize something you already do
– Pulling from many sources and earning the highest rates, our supplemental job content earns you money – it’s like backfill for job alerts; but on steroids.
– Paid on CPC basis – you’ll likely earn between $5 and $10/thousand emails sent out.There are some qualifications for participation (like quantity of Alerts you send, quality of traffic, etc.) If this sounds like a program you’d like to participate in, please get in touch sooner than later.
Ethan Bloomfield
SVP of Business Development
ethan@ziprecruiter.com
413-842-6165http://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanbloomfield
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Adding maps to your job board (free)By chrisr2 on October 3, 2012 | No Comments
Location is always an important part of a job seekers search. I’m starting to see more job boards recognize this by adding maps to their sites to aid candidates. This “visual cue” is a great feature to have in a world which is becoming more visual.
Here’s a look at what Jobing does;
Google maps is a great place to start. Here’s a link to their API guidelines to get started.
NOTE: There is a sites called JobCompass.net which launched a few years ago based around the maps content.
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Talking with Webjobs (video)By chrisr2 on September 17, 2012 | No Comments
While at the Mobile Recruiting Camp event last week I ran into Alexey Gutin from Webscribble.com, the maker of Webjobs job board software. I asked him to give a quick interview about what they’re up to. In addition to job board software they provide employers software to power their career sites.
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Q&A with job board software provider ForceFinderBy chrisr2 on July 30, 2012 | No Comments
Recently I had an email exchange with Don Kerins from ForceFinder and asked him elaborate on their job board software.
1. Do you only power niche sites? what about local job sites? Most are industry/professional niches. Some have geographic/regional scope.
2. What is the cost? Price sheet attached.ForceFinder Pricing (pdf)
3. What are the top five job boards that you power? Not sure if you’re talking traffic, revenue, or what, but some notables include:
www.associationcareernetwork.
com (ForceFinder powers their network of boards for various association/non-profit niches)4. Why should a job board owner choose Forcefinder? Service.
5. What is your history…who founded? how long ago? Software originally developed about 9 years ago when I worked for Seacrest Business Systems in San Diego. Seacrest ran a successful regional board (JobSummit.com – southern California) and we were hoping to bring our expertise to a software offering that others could use to run their own niche/regional sites. Seacrest ended up selling JobSummit.com to Jobing.com and I purchased ForceFinder and started Workforce Media Group, Inc. We’ve been in business just over 7 years. I have a couple of full timers and use some contractors on an as needed basis.
6. Is any kind of support offered? Yes, during normal business hours, pacific time.
7. Do you host the board or just sell the software? SAAS and self-hosting license available.
Re pricing – the two options in our price sheet represent the two ends of the spectrum. In the hosted/SAAS model everyone uses the same code base – the ‘standard’ package if you will. It’s kind of a one-size-fits all solution. It’s configurable of course, but pretty much the same across the board. In the self-hosted/licensed model the customer does their own hosting and typically we/they modify the code with the changes they need. Having said that, we also have hybrids of the two options. For example, we have customers who have a license but who have us do the hosting, or they have a modified version from the base, they might run a separate instance/website/IP, they might have additional pages (outside the core package) that we host. The pricing for these variations is negotiated with the customer.
8. Do you offer backfill via Indeed or Simplyhired? We integrated with Indeed, SimplyHired, Juju, Smashfly, Ladders, JobG8, Arbita, DataFrenzy and eQuest.
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Big list of WordPress job board plugins
WordPress Job Board
JobHub
Nine to Five (best designed theme in my opinion)
Job Jockey
JobJockey is a premium WordPress theme.
Job Board
JobPress
OTHER JOB PLUGINS
Job Manager
Zartis Job Plugin
Job Manager by SmartRecruiters
WPCareers
My Job Application
Job Listing
WordPress Jobbin
WpJobBoard
