I think the best way to look at this question is to first pick a hot job market. A job market (industry) is hot if the companies are having a hard time finding talent for it or its an up and coming type of job (ex: drone pilots). Then you must look at what existing…
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Dice buys another job board – OilCareers
Last week Dice.com bought another niche job board, this time picking up UK based Oilcareers.com. The press release actually mentions the sales of Oilcareers.com which I thought was very interesting and indicative of their strategy in the job board industry. Dice Holdings, Inc. is purchasing OilCareers from the Daily Mail and General Trust PLC (LON:…
Starting slowly (member only)
Got off the phone just now with a client who has a blog and wants to add a job board piece to it. He’s been blogging for a while about careers in a certain niche and already has 5,000 monthly visitors. This is a great way to start a job board. By actually just writing…
Lets get visual (member only)
Since the web is getting more visual I think job boards need to start doing so as well. I think job descriptions need to get much more visual! With more colors, more social integration and more logos. A job board that starts to take design of its job descriptions more creatively will have a way…
3 things every new job board needs to have
Job boards are evolving. If you are starting a job board today you need to keep in mind trends in the online job market so that your site contains the latest features that job seekers expect. Here are 3 things that every new job board should have. 1. Mobile friendly/mobile apply. Most job seekers are…
How much should I expect to make with a job board? (member only)
So big job baords like Monster still make a couple hundred million per year. Sites like Ontargetjobs.com make a few million per year and then there’s the rest of the job board market. Established niche players that have been around for several years make six figures. The rest squeeze by with $10-25k per year. A…
How to start a job board
Lately I’ve been getting lots of calls from newbies who want to start their own job board. So with their questions fresh in my mind I wanted to summarize how to start a job board from the ground up. First, a warning. If you are not experienced in the operations of a website I suggest…
Nursingjobs.com stands up against bad browsers!
I love this story. IE 7 just needs to die already. Instead of designing their job site to support older browsers like IE 7, Nursingjobs.com said screw it! Its cheaper for us to just buy new pcs for our clients so they have the latest version. Hows that for responsive web design! Read the story…
Dynamic job post buttons
I think I just created what might be the first dynamic job post button in the industry. In looking for ways to encourage more postings to my new hidden job leads site, we implemented a post button that brings in the location of the page the user is on so that the message on the…
New job boards
Here are some new job boards coming on the scene… Women of STEM targets women in science, tech and math. http://jobs.thejobnetwork.com/home?affiliateid=2583 OhYouHero out of Boston aims to be craigslist/linkedin for freelancers. Thats a tough market to be in because there are oDesk and Elance dominate but I wish them luck. Not sure I like the…