On Thursday June 9th at 2pm ET I will be hosting a paid webinar ($39) covering the topic of maximizing your job board revenue streams. In a post Covid world every dollar counts and this session will teach you untapped opportunities to help your job board survive and thrive. You’ll learn about new ways to…
Someone asked me the other day what I would do to Monster.com if I ran it. It was a good question that got me thinking. As the pandemic continues to shred the job market, Monster and the other major job boards are suffering and/or laying off staff. Now would be a good time to think…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…