A reader alerted me that Smart Job Board upped their prices a bit so I thought I would do a quick recap of the top “off the shelf” software products. These products are all hosted in the cloud and are self-configurable. I recommend them for beginners who want to get started quickly. These are the…
Category: Job Board Software
Job board software platforms and vendor updates.
ZipRecruiter Acquires Popular Job Board Software Vendor
Jobboard.io, the popular job board software platform started by Christian Malpeli more than 5 years ago has been acquired by ZipRecruiter. The news came via email to JobBoard.io clients yesterday. Terms of the deal are not disclosed. I was able to reach both ZipRecruiter and Christian Malpeli, for comment on the news. What are the…
What Job Board Software Vendors Need to Do Next
In case you hadn’t noticed there are big changes happening in the job board world. Now that Facebook and Google are in the game, the market is even more crowded and they are putting pressure on boards of all sizes and shapes. Things are changing at a rapid pace. This new trend will certainly begin to…
JobMount Now Offers Career Sites as a Product
Sites powered by JobMount can now offer branded career sites as part of their offering. This news comes on the heels of Indeed’s recent career site announcement. According to Valerii Verbovetskyi, from Aspen Tech Labs which owns JobMount, “Corporate career site pages are a preferred choice for candidate job searches & applications. Job boards can…
Interview with Smart Job Board Founder
At this weekend’s TA Tech event in Chicago I go the chance to meet Rodion Telpizov the founder of Smart Job Board, one of my recommended vendors and a sponsor of this blog. He flew 20 hours from his native country and gave me the scoop on some upcoming features. Be sure to listen to…
Thoughts on Replatforming Your Job Board
I have helped a lot of job boards over the years to move to a new software platform. “Replatforming” as its called, involves a good deal of planning and data extraction so it’s not to be taken lightly. You need to do it carefully otherwise you risk losing a great deal of traffic and sales….
Tracking Applies
As a job board owner your number one goal should be driving enough quality applications to your customers jobs. If you fail in this task your employers won’t come back. Therefore you need to be able to track the number of applies overall and for each job. A lot of the job board software in…
Smart Job Board introduces Recurring Billing
Smart Job Board is the first platform provider, to my knowledge, that now offers recurring billing options for employers. They made the announcement on their blog last week. Recurring revenue is great for job boards (or any internet business). Helps to maintain steady income so think about ways to integrate it into your product mix….
New WordPress Plugin for Jobs2Careers
If you own a blog and want to add job listings to it there are a number of plugins to do that. But most of those only backfill from Indeed. But no more. Pete Metz, owner of SkiptheDrive, has changed that. He developed a WordPress plugin that lets you search and browse listings from Jobs2Careers,…
JobMount releases new template
Updates are coming fast and furious from the job board platform industry. After recent updates by both Jobboard.io and Smart Job Board, Job Mount has just released a new version. According to their email… Aspen Technology Labs’ JobMount team announces the release of a new-age job board design platform. This fresh, responsive and fully featured…