Leave it to me to keep you abreast of the latest job board news. Here’s some of the headlines that caught my eye. Thinking of starting your own job board or need help with your existing one? Contact me, I can help. Realmatch adds more job sites to its portfolio. The company also changed CEO’s recently….
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Streamline your apply process
Does your job board or Applicant Tracking Software have a long drawn out apply process? Well if it does you need to change it ASAP. I came across an article recently that talks about how USAjobs.gov‘s apply process is hurting applicants. USAJobs.gov, the main job site for federal employment, has discouraged applicants for years, with…
Jobs boards are becoming ATS’s
Don’t look now but the big job boards are turning into ATS (applicant tracking systems) and the ATS is becoming a job board. Yes they are all morphing into the same thing right before our eyes. As my evidence I’m going to use 2 popular sites: ZipRecruiter and Indeed.com. Indeed started out as an aggregator,…
This job board just added video to the mix
CNCJobs.net has launched a job board and resume search engine with support for video (view site). In contrast to text-only job search engines, the website supports both photos and video to help employers and potential employees find the right match. According to the site, these unconventional features will help save employers money while shortening the…
Fast growing job boards and their revenue numbers
Inc recently came out with their list of the fastest growing companies. The firms in it have to fill out a survey and submit their revenue numbers. This year a number of job boards made the list. Here they are in order of biggest sales to smallest.
Job boards in the news
Its September so the job board news is coming fast and furious. Here’s a quick roundup. * Jobs2Careers Ranked #131 in Inc. 500 List of Fastest-Growing Privately-Held Companies. Congrats to Bruce Ge for building a good aggregator in the face of Indeed and SimplyHired. READ ABOUT IT HERE * NJmarketingjobs is a new hyper-niche job…
An easy way to improve the effectiveness and share-ability of your job postings (member only)
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Improving your apply ratio for employers (member only)
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August doldrums
I was on vacation last week. Generally I take off the first week of august which reminds me of the traffic levels for any job board. If you run any kind of website you know that traffic ebbs and flows each month. In my past experience running job boards, August was always the 2nd slowest…
Gerry Crispin interview on latest sources of hire study
There’s a lot of job board talk in this video interview with Gerry Crispin on the latest sources of hire study that his consulting firm, CareerXroads publishes each year. Following up on last weeks post check out this great interview as he breaks down the study even further. [youtube]http://youtu.be/mXmLHyXhMss[/youtube]