When you put a phone number on your site or email address, employers and recruiters will call you to get more info. Here are some of the most basic questions you are likely to get and how to answer them. Can I get a free trial/posting?: This is perhaps the most frequent thing I hear….
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Get a good logo
If you are starting a new job board (or any website) you absolutely NEED a professional logo. There’s just no excuse for NOT having one. Services like 99designs.com are an awesome way to get one for around $500 bucks. Last week I posted a project to get a new logo for what will hopefully be…
Two quick tips for design and sales (premium)
Here are two quick tips that may help you and your job board. These are simple ideas that are easy to implement. 1. Rotate Your Logo: did you ever notice how often Google changes their logo to reflect a holiday or commemorate some big event? While I was at JobCircle last week I noticed their…
Sources of Hires study: Job Boards at 20%
CareerXroads is out with their annual sources of hire study. Job boards represent 20% of all hires last year. Once again we see the value job boards provide. Hoo-waa! Check out their slideshare about the study. 2012 CareerXroads Source of Hire: Channels of Influence View more PowerPoint from CareerXroads
Multiple revenue streams (premium)
In the golden days of job boards you could get away with just making money on job postings. Not anymore. Here’s a list of other revenue ideas.
Social media and job boards (free)
Glassdoor is now letting its users connect with social networks like facebook. ERE has a writeup on it. They join a growing number of businesses trying to open up your job search in order to uncover connections at companies you may want to work for such as Branchout, Beknown, Jibe, Gethired, etc. SimplyHired has been…
All the sites I use to stay on top of the job board industry (free)
I keep a close eye on the online recruiting space. There are obvious ways to do that such as google alerts for “new job boards“, but here is a list of sites that I visit each week to make sure I’m on top of this ever changing industry. 1. JobBoarders (I founded this site in…
Spreading your site everywhere (free)
I stumbled across worktree.com the other day. Its one of the original job board directories that actually charges users. I remember seeing this site over 10 years ago. Its a remarkable feat that they are still in business. They must have a nice revenue stream of paying users to still be around. Anyway you can…
How much can you make with backfill? (premium)
Backfill is a great supplemental revenue source for job boards. A few years ago CollegeRecruiter.com switched their entire site to showcase Indeed.com backfill. Their president tells me it makes a great revenue stream for a site with hundreds of thousands of page views. So I asked my contact at Indeed what you can expect to…
2012 hiring predictions (free)
Just did some research for y’all about the 2012 hiring outlook. Overall it looks slightly stronger than last year. My boards were up around 20% from 2010 and I expect about the same as we enter this year. A recent survey of economists by the Associated Press says to expect an avg of 175,000 new…