This week Jobcircle was acquired by Beyond.com. http://www.ere.net/2012/12/10/beyond-com-buys-jobcircle-will-grow-job-fair-business/ Jobcircle.com is a well established board that serves the mid-atlantic region around Philadelphia-Baltimore. In addition to their job postings they have some innovative services such as Rezrocket and Voiceblast (read about those here). I dont know how much they bought it for but I’d guess between 2x-3x…
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Musings of a job board consultant (member only)
Well with December here things (aka sales) will soon be slowing at job boards around the world. This time of year always brings a slowdown as HR budgets have been depleted and recruiting slows to a crawl. And as we enter a new year I cant help but think that job boards are under more…
Your job board customer service
Part of my success at running job boards over the years has been good customer service. Even though the business is mostly an online-transactional one, a personal touch goes a long way towards getting/keeping a client. The first thing I will tell is respond quickly to your emails. Employers and recruiters are BUSY people and…
Facebook’s disastrous job board launch
This is the first of two posts about the facebook job board launch. Look for #2 on Wednesday for members only with what it should have been. Last week Facebook rolled out its much hyped job board. As soon as I saw it, I dismissed it as a half-hearted attempt at job search. There was…
New wave of techie job businesses launching
Tech people are hard to find. Whenever you have a strong demand in a certain industry, sites will multiply to try and help employers find that talent. We are now witnessing a new crop of techie job sites that have a fresh approach on recruiting tech talent. Recruiters in the tech industry will try anything…
5 Things you should be adding to your job board (member only)
I think a lot about the future of job boards. As the online recruiting landscape shifts to new tools and technology, these new tools (social, video, etc) are eating away at the job board marketshare. Now employers have more tools than ever to find talent. So its more important for your site to evolve into…
Questions to ask yourself BEFORE you start a job board (premium members)
Ok so you want to launch a job board. Copngrats. But before you undertake this project better ask yourself a few questions. What are your short & long term goals for the site? You need to set your expectations. In the short term it probably wont make any money but it will suck up a…
Random job board thoughts (free)
This is just kind of a random post with a little of this and that. * What hot in niche job boards? Trucking jobs. Yeah thats right. Companies cant hire truckers fast enough to ship our stuff across the country. So naturally, niche sites have popped up to serve this need. The latest is US…
Why you need backfill (premium)
I was on the phone with a new client the other day when I clicked over to his new job board. I hadn’t seen it yet so this was my first time viewing it. To my dismay it had a grand total of 3 jobs. #FAIL No job board should launch without a plethora of…
My thoughts on the Indeed.com acquisition
In case you were out of the office yesterday, the online recruiting space got a huge jolt with the acquisition of the biggest job site in the world, Indeed.com. They announced the sale on their blog. Terms of the sale weren’t announced but its a safe bet that it was around the billion dollar mark….