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Author: chrisr2
The Most Simple Job Board Home Page Ever
The home page of http://www.freelancer.com/ has the most simplest effective homepage I’ve ever seen on a job board. Two buttons: hire/work The simplicity of their site warms my heart. Its a great lesson for those of you starting new job boards or thinking of redesigning your current site.
Adding banner ads to your job board (member only)
A reader asks; Right now I’m using adsense for my… You must be a member in to view this content. Login or Join Up.
5 Recent trends in job boards (member only)
I wanted to highlight some ways that job boards are… You must be a member in to view this content. Login or Join Up.
IT job board for sale
A friend of mine is selling ITjobs247.com. Its an IT job board that was launched around July 2012. It has paying clients although the owner hasn’t done much lately to promote it. Its a nice looking site that features Indeed backfill. Traffic is minimal (maybe 500 uniques per month) but its fully functioning and ready…
Dice.com acquires onTargetjobs which owns Healthecareers, Hcareers and Biospace
Well guess who is $50 million dollars richer? The owners of onTargetjobs which run some of the biggest niche sites around. I first heard about this via Jonathan Duarte on Facebook. Here’s his post, here the press release link. They bought Rigzone a few years back so they are continuing their trend of buying up…
Add value by educating your clients (member only)
Whether you own a job board or some other type… You must be a member in to view this content. Login or Join Up.
RanchWork launches on WordPress
RanchWork.com, a niche job board for working on ranches out west has recently launched. The owner Peter Askew recently emailed me to say that it took him about 3 weeks to configure the backend using a wordpress job board theme called Templatic. Its a simple site that has a post a job or post a…
Critique of a job board (member only
Recently I was aked by a client to critique his… You must be a member in to view this content. Login or Join Up.
Get ready for .career domains
Dot career is coming to a website near you in 2014. The same company (Employ Media) that runs .jobs will be selling them. In addition to job board uses they say it will be good for business, staffing firms, even personal use; Businesses and staffing agencies around the world will find .CAREER a natural extension…