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…
Category: Job Board Software
Job board software platforms and vendor updates.
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…
Your job board platform is holding you back
If your job board hasn’t upgraded its platform in the past 5 years, you might be a red neck. I have seen it time and time again as I speak to many job board owners each week. They are being held back by their platforms because they haven’t kept up with technology. Part of that…
Q&A with Smart Job Board
I asked Rodion Telpizov the developer of Smart Job Board a few questions over email. The company is based overseas in Kyrgyzstan. They have a new version out with new pricing. 1. What is the history of SJB? When did you start the company and why? I launched Smartjobboard back in 2008. At that time,…
SimplyHired Shutting Down its Partner Program for Job Boards
In case you haven’t heard SimplyHired is shutting down. Their partner program called “Simply-Partner” is also going away and thus ending one of the last viable options to operate a free hosted job board solution. They made the announcement last Friday. Last day of operations will be June 26th. Any sites using SimplyHired’s API for backfill or…
2018 Job Board Software Directory
I have a new list of job board software vendors and the top 1,000 national, niche and local job boards across the web. Freshly updated for 2018! The file is a downloadable PDF file available for $19.95 on my Gumroad page. Buy the Directory Today The report contains six sections; 1. Hosted software vendors. Only…