Here’s the latest headlines from the job board world. The funding train continues to chug along. I’ll be chatting with an HR tech analyst soon about job board funding so stay tuned for that video. DiversityJobs.com Names Top Employers for 2020 Dallas, TX, February 16, 2020 — DiversityJobs.com, a job board that gives job seekers…
A company that once had over 100 employees in the job board space has shuttered, I learned recently. EmploymentGuide was a longtime job newspaper publisher and website that for many years lived off blue collar listings. The site (employmentguide.com) has been taken offline and rumor has it the owner is looking to sell the domain….
Last week job search engine LinkUp announced they were opening up their job market data going back to 2007 via the FactSet marketplace. According to the announcement; The OFM will feature LinkUp Raw, which contains the complete set of LinkUp’s job market data, dating back to 2007. The dataset includes full job listings sourced directly from employer…
A few weeks ago I launched my latest endeavor, a freelance job marketplace called HR Lancers. It is an open marketplace designed to be the ‘Upwork for HR‘ by allowing freelance HR pros and independent recruiters and sourcers to find contract, remote and project based work. All with little to no fees unlike the major…
I received the email below in an attempt to get a backlink placed on one of my sites. I thought it was a good example of how to write a backlink request so wanted to pass it along to my premium members.
GlobalWaterJobs, a water industry job board is looking for a buyer. The International niche job site was started in 2013 appears to have a solid solid foundation of users to build upon for a prospective new owner. An aged domain and a core base of users is usually a good value. Please contact the owner…
Hivebrite is a new community platform which just got $20 million in funding and they have a job board component built into the product. Pricing is unknown as they do not show it on site rather redirecting you to a demo request but this looks like an interesting platform. According to the story in VentureBeat;…
No job board software exists that lets you charge a monthly fee to job seekers. They are all driven by employers paying to post. But there is a desire for some entrepreneurs to build this kind of reverse job board so here’s a to actually do that using a combination of tools. Mightynetworks is a…
I’m working on a new ebook about creating content for your job board. It’s going to be a deeper dive into content creation because I am hearing from many of my readers and clients that they struggle to write it. When I opened one of my Google alerts the other day I saw a piece…
Starting a job board today? Keep in mind that there are several reason why it won’t succeed. I have seen these reasons time and time again over my 20 year job board career. My goal in this post is to give you more insight into what to watch out for as you go down the…