In the span of a few short weeks the job market has turned upside down and the world is facing a global recession. These are trying times for anyone in the HR world. I have been through these boom cycles many times before. It seems like every ten years or so we are faced with…
Paths is a new platform from HiringSolved based out of Arizona. This is their first consumer job search app. The company says; “We’re building it because we believe that if we can make hiring better, we can make life better for many people. We’re building it because nothing much has changed in work-finding apps in…
Open source spreadsheets are having a moment. When online retailer Wayfair recently announced layoffs a recruiter at the company created a spreadsheet on Google Drive that she made public with the names and contact information of those laid off. It went viral and many people were able to land jobs because of its creation. Then…
I don’t know who owns humanresources.com but they need to do themselves a favor and get a new logo. The current one looks as if it hasn’t changed since 1999. That’s apparently when this site launched which is a surprise to me. I never knew this site even existed until the other day. And I…
Here’s the latest headlines from the job board world. The funding train continues to chug along. I’ll be chatting with an HR tech analyst soon about job board funding so stay tuned for that video. DiversityJobs.com Names Top Employers for 2020 Dallas, TX, February 16, 2020 — DiversityJobs.com, a job board that gives job seekers…
A company that once had over 100 employees in the job board space has shuttered, I learned recently. EmploymentGuide was a longtime job newspaper publisher and website that for many years lived off blue collar listings. The site (employmentguide.com) has been taken offline and rumor has it the owner is looking to sell the domain….
Last week job search engine LinkUp announced they were opening up their job market data going back to 2007 via the FactSet marketplace. According to the announcement; The OFM will feature LinkUp Raw, which contains the complete set of LinkUp’s job market data, dating back to 2007. The dataset includes full job listings sourced directly from employer…
Hivebrite is a new community platform which just got $20 million in funding and they have a job board component built into the product. Pricing is unknown as they do not show it on site rather redirecting you to a demo request but this looks like an interesting platform. According to the story in VentureBeat;…
No job board software exists that lets you charge a monthly fee to job seekers. They are all driven by employers paying to post. But there is a desire for some entrepreneurs to build this kind of reverse job board so here’s a to actually do that using a combination of tools. Mightynetworks is a…
I’m working on a new ebook about creating content for your job board. It’s going to be a deeper dive into content creation because I am hearing from many of my readers and clients that they struggle to write it. When I opened one of my Google alerts the other day I saw a piece…