Here’s my list of the top 15 National job boards. This list is NOT ranked by traffic, rather by my knowledge of the job board industry, their popularity among job seekers and number of jobs in their respective databases. None of these are niche sites. They contain listings from all industries across the USA. 1….
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Job boards in the news
Here’s a look at whats happening in the job board world. [youtube]http://youtu.be/mjrCye350HA[/youtube]
Sell your own ads (member only)
Most job boards only use adsense or other ad networks to generate revenue from ads. But few take advantage of selling their own. Over the years I’ve sold dozens of my own ads by simply charging a flat monthly fee for X number of spots on a homepage or throughout the site. If you are…
For twitter ads, clicks aren’t what they seem
I was doing some twitter ads recently as a test and noticed something strange. When setting up the ad I chose to drive “clicks” to my website. So when I saw that they had generated dozens of clicks in a few days I was ecstatic. BUT when I checked my web stats I could only…
4 Most common mistakes starting a job board
Once of my recent clients asked me this question and I wanted to put this down “on paper” while its still fresh. Newbies in this industry often underestimate the time and effort required to make a job board sustainable. Starting a job board is easy but maintaining/growing it is the hard part. So here are…
Everywhere Job Aggregators
Now that Indeed.com has taken over the world and turned aggregation into a primary service, other job boards are now entering the fray. First Monster made an announcement a few weeks ago and then Linkedin says they’ll be doing it too. I expect CareerBuilder to follow suit later this year. These recent changes signal a…
Whats wrong with this job board? (member only)
Simplicity in job board design is important. Your goal should always be to help employers post jobs quickly and easily OR help job seekers get to the jobs they seek with little effort. When I came upon CMShires.com the other day I was both elated and saddened at the same time. I was elated for…
For small biz, job boards are still the best way to recruit
If it weren’t for job boards small businesses would have no place to post their jobs and get resumes. I know this because I’m recruiting for a small tech company in Connecticut now. Since no one really knows our company name that well I HAVE to use job boards in order to create applicant flow….
Can you charge job seekers for stuff? (member only)
Let me just say right upfront that job seekers are the most frugal consumers on the internet. They don’t pay for shit! However you can eek out a few dollars here and there from them if you make it cheap enough and only rely on it as a secondary revenue source. I’ve been running job…
Chicken or the egg problem for new job boards (member only)
A reader asks; We are about to launch the website, and now the main question that still remains open is “That awkward moment when jobseeker or employer enters the website for the first time and finds out that our CV or Jobs database is empty”. How this problem is usually solved? What was your solution…