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…
The end of year for job boards is always a great time to take stock of your current site and get ready for the year ahead. Traditionally the period between Christmas and New years is quite inactive for most employers so don’t expect too many sales. Instead, take the time to clean things up and…
Jobiqo has published a new ebook detailing the 6 different business models of job boards. It’s a good primer on how job boards make money. In this video I discuss the ebook with their UK Managing Director, Richard Essex. Download the ebook here.
There are lots of niche job boards online that serve a unique segment of the job market. RanchWork.com is one of those sites. Their site just underwent a WordPress redesign and I love their new look. Owner Peter Askew offered to answer some questions from me over email and today’s post is all about their…
Let’s face it, no one knew how to pronounce or spell the name ‘neuvoo‘. So when i saw the news last week that the job search company had acquired a top tier domain like Talent.com, I saw it as a much needed move if they ever want to take on the Indeed’s of the world….
There hasn’t been much news coming out of Google lately regarding Google for Jobs, the job search feature which launched over 2 years ago. The last update they had was back in June when it was announced they had entered France. Before that, they had enabled a remote jobs filter back in February. Last week…
Rule number one in the job board business is never launch your site with jobs. It needs to be stocked/primed before you launch so that it provides value to any seekers coming to it. If I see no jobs on it initially what reason do I have to come back? Case in point is this…
Culinary Agents is a website to find career-related information about the hospitality industry. Their community includes over 720,000 members and 25,000 businesses nationwide. The platform empowers aspiring and existing talent to easily discover and apply to the best jobs. Culinary Agents also provides job marketing, recruiting and employer branding solutions to help businesses hire the…
Apparently I have an old resume on Indeed. This email hit my inbox over the weekend; It reminds me (no pun intended) that job boards must constantly prod their audience to come back to their site and keep their profiles updated. Job seekers need coaxing so you should give them reasons to come back and…