What do your job board customers want?
When was the last time you asked your job board customers what they want? Not just a one-off question to a few clients – but an systematic, organized survey... Read more.
Job boards and applicant tracking systems
The appeal of applicant tracking systems (ATS) for employers is obvious: they promise to bring order to the often disordered process of managing job applicants.... Read more.
Why job boards need branding
Job board branding often gets a bad rap – as if there is something inherently bad in trying to create a unique, persuasive persona for your job board. Nothing... Read more.
Job boards as economic indicators
As I was sorting through the usual spate of ‘job boards are dead’ articles, I noticed other more interesting types of articles: pieces that point to... Read more.
Can job boards truly be ‘Web 2.0’?
At their core, most job boards are series of one-way communications: employer posts a job; job seeker responds to employer; employer does (or doesn’t) respond... Read more.
The dangers (and benefits) of backfilling job listings
Once upon a time, if you visited a job board, you knew what you would get: whatever jobs the board had on that day. These were jobs that the board’s sales... Read more.
Pay per posting vs. pay per response
For the past 15 years, the job board industry has been dominated by the ‘pay per posting‘ revenue model: an employer purchases a job posting (and sometimes... Read more.
What is the value of job seeker registration?
Is job seeker registration good or bad? And if you require registration, how much is too much? And…how much value should you attach to these registered users?... Read more.
Reference: job board software
Due to popular demand (i.e., you!), I’ve just added a page to Job Board Doctor that lists the currently available job board software. I’ve tried to make... Read more.
Site ranking tools: sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down
Sometimes it really is all about the numbers. For instance, you know that your customers (and competitors) will probably use Alexa, Compete, or QuantCast to evaluate... Read more.