In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Sara Sutton of FlexJobs about how she founded not one, but two job boards and met with success on both. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter ask Sara why she focused on remote and flexible jobs…
Why write about a job board owner's toolkit? Well, when you've been writing about job boards and recruiting sites for 13 (!) years, you manage to cover a lot of ground. Sometimes good information gets buried in the past, while…
It's been a while since I looked at different and unusual sites and services - I think the pandemic threw me off my game! But new things launch all the time, and some of them definitely stray from the path…
In this JobBoardGeek episode, we talk to Kasia Lynch of Nihongo Jobs, who has tackled an important but challenging market: Japanese-speaking job seekers in the U.S. How's that for a niche? Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter ask Kasia about how…
This episode of JobBoardGeek investigates how Matt Lucas of JobMonkey turned a summer job in Alaska's fisheries into a series of books and a job board empire. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter pepper Matt with questions -…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, host Jeff Dickey-Chasins and co-host Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter talk with Jennifer Johansson of Placed, a mobile-first recruiting site that targets workers with no CV in the hospitality, retail, and care sectors in the…
Is there a hiring lesson from Japan out there? Well, employers throughout much of the world are facing a hiring problem: they have more jobs than people willing to do them. This problem is nothing new - it existed before…
Well, I missed it - StackOverflow jobs, that is. Back in April 2021, StackOverflow announced that it was "moving away from job slots and direct hiring". This was the oldest part of their various revenue streams, and also one of…
This episode of JobBoardGeek features host Jeff Dickey-Chasins and co-host Steven Rothberg talking to Mac Prichard, founder of Mac's List. This unusual job board is one of the few in the world that is a B corp. We find out…
Job boards have long believed - or were taught to believe by search engines - that job ads were 'their' content. In other words, a job board was nothing without the primal content of job ads. After all, refer to…