RanchWork.com, a niche job board for working on ranches out west has recently launched. The owner Peter Askew recently emailed me to say that it took him about 3 weeks to configure the backend using a wordpress job board theme called Templatic. Its a simple site that has a post a job or post a…
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Get ready for .career domains
Dot career is coming to a website near you in 2014. The same company (Employ Media) that runs .jobs will be selling them. In addition to job board uses they say it will be good for business, staffing firms, even personal use; Businesses and staffing agencies around the world will find .CAREER a natural extension…
eQuests new job board study has good news
Got an email from an eQuest rep last week with info on their recent job board study. It contains good news for job board owners. In case you dont know who they are: eQuest operates one of the world’s most-utilized job posting distribution platforms. AKA they promote job board to employers. Below is the press…
The popup job board
The other day I discovered a “popup” job board that sprang from the government shutdown here in the U.S. Unfurlough.us is a spreadsheet based job board that lists available gigs and the ability to promote yourself for work if you work for Uncle Sam. This a bit of PR stunt to get some attention (it…
Your job board and Youtube
Every job board should have a Youtube channel. At the very least its AWESOME for SEO since it is the 2nd biggest search engine on the planet. I was just touching up CareerCloud’s channel just now and thought I would write this post. There are lots of cool options your channel gives you to help…
Indeed adds endorsements to resumes, on collision course with Linkedin
Breaking News: Indeed.com, the big boy of job sites just added endorsements to its resumes product. They just took a page out of Linkedin’s playbook and fired a warning shot across their bow. Wow. I think this is a big deal and signals a quiet new war happening in the online recruiting space. As industry…
Recruiters on twitter
There are a lot of recruiters on twitter. If you did a survey I bet recruiters, sales people and social media consultants are in the top 10 occupations for people on the platform. So from a job board or HR tech product standpoint you better be engaging with them, after all, your business depends on…
myCNAjobs.com is a well designed job board
Niche job board myCNAjobs.com has a new look which I really dig. Its one of those “micro-niche” type job boards that focus on one type of job. In this case, Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). They just introduced a new “badging” system for their job seekers. According to the article; For those on the job hunt,…
Jobboard.io announces new pricing plans, rev share
New job board software provider Jobboard.io has announced new pricing and the addition of a revenue sharing plan. According to the company; This is great plan for folks just getting started with their job board who aren’t yet ready for a monthly commitment. This allows Job Board owners to really take the time to market…
Hopping on the temp job bandwagon
I have been reading recently of the surge in temp hiring across the US. Basically employers are really gravitating towards hiring temp workers to fill certain voids. So it got me thinking about a temp job board. I did some searches and couldn’t find may. There was Net-temps, and that was really about it. So…