A UK Startup Job Board Has Been Acquired London-based recruitment software company Alvius, announced that it has acquired UK Startup Jobs for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, UK Startup Jobs is a job board with a community of 10,000 job seekers, headquartered in Edinburgh. The job board specialises in advertising a wide range of…
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VC Firm: Now is the Time for Niche Job Markets
Loyal reader and founder of Ranchwork.com Peter Askew, tipped me off to a very interesting article about the rise of niche job boards. Andreesen Horowitz, one of the worlds most famous venture capital firms says now is the time to start building ‘verticalized job marketplaces‘ AKA niche job boards. In a blog post on their…
Don’t Over Design Your Site
Sometimes when prospective job board owners call me about wanting to start a site they get too obsessed with customizing the look and feel of the templates that come with cloud platforms like Smart Job Board and Jobboard.io. I cringe a little when they ask if I can help them create some “cool” designs that…
What Makes Your Job Board Sellable?
If you have been thinking about selling your job board there are probably people who would want to buy it right now. A number of people have been contacting me lately to see if I know of any on the market. I have helped a number of job sites to find a buyer in the…
Don’t Abandon Your Job Board (member only)
Some job board owners seem to let their site wither… You must be a member in to view this content. Login or Join Up.
“Essential” Job Sites
As the virus outbreak takes hold in the U.S. a number of virus related job boards have popped up. Techcrunch has a story of one, the NRF created a retail job resource page and even Bayard Advertising got into the act with HiringAgain.com. States are getting into the act as well and this one from…
Layoffs Starting to Hit Major Job Boards
Last Friday was a somber day at ZipRecruiter based in Santa Monica, California. The company reportedly let go nearly 500 of its 1,600 employees. Former employees mentioned the news on LinkedIn through various posts. It affected all departments even engineering. As the economy goes, so does the success of job boards. The vast majority of…
Running Your Job Board in the Age of Coronavirus
In the span of a few short weeks the job market has turned upside down and the world is facing a global recession. These are trying times for anyone in the HR world. I have been through these boom cycles many times before. It seems like every ten years or so we are faced with…
The Spreadsheet Job Board
Open source spreadsheets are having a moment. When online retailer Wayfair recently announced layoffs a recruiter at the company created a spreadsheet on Google Drive that she made public with the names and contact information of those laid off. It went viral and many people were able to land jobs because of its creation. Then…
New Ebook: 6 Content Creation Tactics
One of the more common issues I hear from job board owners is their struggle to create content. My latest ebook offer some solutions. Loading…