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,…
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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)
The web is becoming a more visual place. Just look at whats happening on social media. Linkedin, twitter, instagram and facebook are all about VISUALS. The reason is simple. Pictures make people happy. Pictures are more engaging than a plain old text tweet or a Facebook status update. Linkedin is really going visual, have you…
Improving your apply ratio for employers (member only)
Is your job board apply ratio going down threatening to devalue your site in the eyes of employers using you? Consider this question I got from a reader. I have long used our website as a blog to highlight jobs. We push content of many different kinds. Have found that increasingly candidates are not crazy…
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]
Job boards account for 15% of all hires in latest survey
The new Sources of Hire study is out. You whats hot? Sourcing is. Referrals, company career sites and job boards were all down from last year. Read the article. Job boards accounted for 15.1% last year. CareerXroads puts out this study each year and foes a great job with it. I think the respondents are…
Lessons on starting a job search content company
Ever heard of The Muse? its a job search content site that pumps out 40 articles per week and sells profile pages to employers. In this episode of TWIST with Jason Calacanis, the co founder Katherine Mnshew talks about jobs and the career space. If you run any kind of job search business its a…