Found this cool new job board theme built off twitter bootstrap so its mobile friendly. Check out this live preview. I like how they split the interface into find a job/post a job. Great UX. Its only $15 bucks so if you are looking for a great out of the box design check it out….
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For small biz, job boards are still the best way to recruit
If it weren’t for job boards small businesses would have no place to post their jobs and get resumes. I know this because I’m recruiting for a small tech company in Connecticut now. Since no one really knows our company name that well I HAVE to use job boards in order to create applicant flow….
Whats on your job board mind?
Whats top of mind for those of you reading this site? Send me some more ideas for types of content you want me to write about. https://www.jobboardsecrets.com/contact/
Can you charge job seekers for stuff? (member only)
Let me just say right upfront that job seekers are the most frugal consumers on the internet. They don’t pay for shit! However you can eek out a few dollars here and there from them if you make it cheap enough and only rely on it as a secondary revenue source. I’ve been running job…
8 tips for your Jobboard.io site
I’ve been chatting with quite a few users of Jobboard.io recently and as a fan of the new platform myself I’ve picked up some tips and tricks that been useful in configuring these sites for optimal use. 1. Use the Adsense header block for text not ads. In the example below it gives you another…
Chicken or the egg problem for new job boards (member only)
A reader asks; We are about to launch the website, and now the main question that still remains open is “That awkward moment when jobseeker or employer enters the website for the first time and finds out that our CV or Jobs database is empty”. How this problem is usually solved? What was your solution…
What type of job board should you start? (member only)
I think the best way to look at this question is to first pick a hot job market. A job market (industry) is hot if the companies are having a hard time finding talent for it or its an up and coming type of job (ex: drone pilots). Then you must look at what existing…
Jobify is new wordpress job board plugin
Here’s a new mobile friendly wordpress plugin for job boards. Its one of the more elegant designs I have come across. Download it here for $55.
Best options for backfill
Most of the off the shelf job board solutions let you pre-populate your job board with listings from their database. This is called “backfill” and its another way you can earn revenue. Generally speaking its not a lot of money but a job board that gets 10,000 monthly pages views can earn in the ‘hundreds…
If you aren’t tweeting your jobs, you should be (member only)
Is your job board on twitter? You should already be tweeting job search advice and industry news but your jobs should also be in the mix. And you may want a separate twitter account to do it. For the simple reason of showing up on twitter search. Take Ziprecruiter for example. They have a main…