Our friends at Jobtarget have begun beta testing new mobile enabled sites. I got them to put my flagship site on it and so far I like the look and functionality of the new platform.

Experts say that making your site optimized for iphone/android phones will make them stay longer on your job board. I for one am looking forward to that!

Popular blog Mashable has a job board powered by Jobamatic and they recently announced some new upgrades. Its a customized version of the job board software and I really like the newer look and the easy to use Twitter and Facebook buttons that make it easy to share a job.

They also indicate original listings with an “exclusive” graphic which is also a nice touch.

Joining the ranks of Jobpress and JobRoller, a new wordpress theme for job boards is out. Its called JobJockey. Price is $69 which is the cheapest of the 3 templates. It doesn’t appear to support backfill from the aggregators but its a nice looking template. View their demo.

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Software provider Adicio has announced new rates for their Professional Edition job board platform.

Monthly costs are now $595 and the setup fee is $1,500 according to a rep that emailed me. This is too expensive for new job boards with little to no revenue however existing job boards with established sales would be a good candidate for their platform.

Below is a feature list that I copied from the email;

The Professional Edition is our new high-powered, full-featured job board software that turns your site visitors into paying customers. The job market is hot and there is ample opportunity for niche websites like yours to tap into this massive market opportunity.

Here’s part of what makes the Professional Edition so powerful:

• ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE IT – Nobody Offers This Quality and Features at This Price
• GO MOBILE  - All of Our Platforms Include Mobile Versions
• RAPID LAUNCH – Get Your Job Board Live in About a Month
• REV UP YOUR E-COMMERCE – Fully Integrated E-commerce
• MORE UPSELLS – Add REVENUE! Adicio Has The Most Upsell Opportunities in The Industry
• CAREERCAST NETWORKS – Includes CareerCast.com, National Network, and Niche Networks
• INVENTORY PROVIDED - Plenty of Job Openings to Get You Started
• SCALE–ABILITIES – As Business Grows, You Have Flexibility to Scale up
• CONTENT PROVIDED – No Charge For Articles & Reviews (RSS)

Download our fact sheets and watch our online video demo to learn how you could add more revenue to your site.

Software provider JobTarget has introduced a new way for employers to gain exposure to job seekers. They call it the “Spotlight” option. Employers can now be given the option to pay an additional fee to shine a spotlight on their job once it’s posted on the career center. See their screenshot below.

This is something I think more job boards should start doing. Products like this are excellent ways of increasing revenue. Sites like eBay and Flippa do it all the time so I think job boards can learn from these examples.

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The latest version of JobRoller is now available. This release (1.5) includes several bug fixes, new features, and an important Indeed integration change. Please read this entire email before performing the upgrade as not everyone may wish to do so. I use this software on Audio Jobs if you want to see it in action. Below is an email update I recently received from them.

What’s New?

The most notable changes in 1.5 have to do with the Indeed integration and a new resume (CV) subscription monetization feature.

Indeed Changes

As you know, JobRoller pulls in job listings from Indeed.com. As powerful as the Indeed integration is, their API limits the job description to only 1-2 sentences. This means jobs pulled into JobRoller are pretty bare bones and don’t provide much value. Understandably, that doesn’t work well for most of our customers so we decided to make a change.

We’ve been working directly with the Indeed team to figure out the best solution and unfortunately, they were not able to fulfill our request and increase the job description length. With that news, we felt it was best to rework how the integration was done.

What Has Changed?

Indeed jobs are no longer being pulled directly into the JobRoller database. Instead, they are dynamically displayed within your existing listings and within search results. This allows you to still monetize your site with Indeed listings and keep your JobRoller database filled with only user-submitted jobs. Existing Indeed jobs in your JobRoller database will not be affected.

We felt it was important to make these changes in 1.5 without sacrificing Indeed functionality. This change was also required by the Indeed team to better align us with their API terms of use.

What Are My Options?

If you wish to continue pulling Indeed jobs into the JobRoller database, you should not upgrade to 1.5. Honestly, we feel there is no reason to hold back since the Indeed jobs are still being displayed — just not stored in the database.

Resume Subscriptions & Radius Search

With 1.5, we’ve introduced a new way to monetize your site. There’s now an option to charge a subscription fee for browsing your resume database. This was one of the most requested features so we felt it was important to add in this release.

You can also now search the resume database with the same powerful radius search used on the job listings. The radius distance drop-down allows you to refine your search based on location. In order for this to work, a new location field has been added to the resume submission process. This captures the longitude and latitude coordinates so the radius search works correctly.

Some things from the job board industry in the news…

The Newest 3.4 Version of SmartJobBoard Software is Released

SmartJobBoard is a top software development company employing its vast potential, creative approach and strong resources in provision of up to date software for job boards. The team of its IT professionals has developed and issued the next 3.4 software version…

I like that these guys keep iterating their job board software

Coming Soon in October: Rxjobscout.com

Rx Job Scout is a newly devised job board providing the strongest tools for licensed Pharmacists and Potential Employers to connect. The company offers industry first technological advances like Facebook account authentication and LinkedIn profile …

I love the homepage of this new job board. Note that it is powered by Jobboard Mount. The only things that are missing are a stronger call out to employers for posting a job. And the sign in box at top should be labeled for employers or seekers. Its unclear as to which group should sign in.

WILEY Launches a new job network.

I received this email from publisher about the launch of their new job board network that is powered by Madgex. They spent a lot of money on this new endeavour and went with the most expensive job board software provider. But as a publisher, adding a job board component will certainly help their bottom line.

Now that a few weeks have passed since returning from the ERE Conference in Florida, I wanted to reach out and thank you for your interest in Wiley Job Network.

We have launched our new website and invite you to have a look and explore our full service job board for leading global employers across the sciences, technology, business, finance, healthcare and the arts.

EMPLOYERS who register on the site can:

TARGET the loyal users of one of the world’s leading research platforms — Wiley Online Library. Every day our experts access a multidisciplinary collection of:

- 4 million articles
- 10,000 books
- 1,500 acclaimed publications

ENGAGE job candidates with the Wiley Online Library Job Widget™.
Wiley Job Network automatically serves contextual and geo-targeted job ads to passive job seekers using the Wiley Online Library Job Widget™, placing them one click away from their desired job.

DELIVER your message to a highly-specialized, well-educated, global community of researchers and professionals.

- 13 million unique visitors every month
- 80 million ad impressions
- 40 million page views
- Over 65% with advanced degrees
- North America – 26% | Europe, Middle East and Africa – 39% | Asia – 36%

For more information, check out our Press Release, recently featured in EContent Magazine, KnowledgeSpeak.com and Publishing Perspectives, detailing some of the functionality of the new site.
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Job Lander is a new resume app. Its a little hard to understand how it works. But I think we’ll be seeing lots more of mobile tools like this for job seekers and employers.