The past 30 days has seen unprecedented acquisition activity in the online recruiting world. First it was SimplyHired, then Linkedin, then Jobr and now this. A job board company is buying an HCM provider. Last week Snagajob, the hourly job marketplace, acquired PeopleMatter, a provider of human capital management software also focused on managing hourly workforces….
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SimplyHired Shutting Down its Partner Program for Job Boards
In case you haven’t heard SimplyHired is shutting down. Their partner program called “Simply-Partner” is also going away and thus ending one of the last viable options to operate a free hosted job board solution. They made the announcement last Friday. Last day of operations will be June 26th. Any sites using SimplyHired’s API for backfill or…
Indeed’s Value Gives Clue to Job Board Valuations
A few years back Indeed.com was bought by a Japanese firm Recruit Co. for a reported billion dollars. I’m not sure anyone ever pinged the exact number at the time but this blog post from one of their investors, Fred Wilson, says it was $1.4 billion to be exact. My favorite example of this is…
Q&A with the Recruitment Queen and Her Local Job Board
From time to time I like to highlight job boards that are doing things right. RecruitmentQueen.com, run by Jennifer Schultz, is a local job board serving Bucks County Pennsylvannia. I recently asked her a few questions over email about her background and how she got started. Her board is powered by Jobboard.io. RQ is a…
Want more applies? Get Better at Social & Search
Jibe, the ATS vendor has a fantastic post on their blog about which online channels convert more applications to their employers jobs. The 2 best sources are organic traffic and social media. Email came in just above 10% so that should also be noted. Image from Jibe Keep in mind these are numbers compiled from employer…
Got traffic? Get a Job Board
There are thousands of small communities online that can benefit by adding a job board to the mix. Case in point, TruckerCountry. Run by a former truck driver, the site offers CDL practice tests and resources that help people become truck drivers. The site reaches 100k users each month so when the owner approached me…
Sales Prospecting Tip for Using Google
Leads are the lifeblood of any job board. You need to find like minded employers who are hiring. Your competitors are a great place to find them but so is Google if you know how to look for them. Here’s how I find leads of companies I want to target. Enter this in the search…
TaxJobs.com Launches to Help Employers Find Top Corporate Tax Talent
Niche job boards do it better. They offer employers access to targeted groups of candidates in any niche you can imagine. Today, there are job boards for every niche market and in many cases multiple boards for each vertical market. As someone who keeps close tabs on the job board industry, I would like to…
How to run your job board on the side
A lot of job board owners today work at full-time gigs while running their site on the side. I’ve done this at times in my past as well. When I started my first job board in 1999 I worked full-time for 2 years until I got laid off in the dot bomb era. But by then my…
What to ask before buying a job board
If you can buy an existing job board that has revenue and traffic, thats usually abetter alternative than building from scratch. Having bought and sold many job boards myself, I’ve learned what to ask before pulling the trigger. So here are 30+ questions to include in your discovery process. If you have a few more…