Hi there!. I'm currently developing a job board to launch…
Hi there!. I'm currently developing a job board to launch, as i want to create a centralized platform for job seekers to easily be able to find, search and apply for digital jobs within my local area.
Theres a lot of job boards out in the market already which can make it overwhelming when searching a job. I was to focus on localized jobs in . Does anyone have any tips, hacks, advice to differentiate and make it profitable?.
Thanks in advance.
Move away from conventional application process. Think 'modular' and 'gamification'.
I have seen a couple of companies do gasification for tech related jobs, have you seen this work better oppose to conventional application process , cv's etc?
Not sure I remember any specific example.
It could be just making so it doesn't feel like applying for a job.
Hey,
I have also been toying with a similar idea but for a specific jobs within the UK. I'm slowly building relationships with recruiters via LinkedIn as I currently work within the niche area that I will be advertising for. I have also worked within a recruitment company & have some contacts from there who I can chat to & get some insights.
Currently, the main issue is working out how to generate traffic to the site in order to justify charging recruiters/companies to post their jobs on my site. Rather than scraping jobs, I think I will be reaching out to the recruiters & asking if I can post them for free & then send them any activity reports for their posts.
Then lies the problem of getting the professionals onto my site. This is something I'm looking into at the moment & I'm hoping to get in touch with some meet-up organisers who operate in the UK/London. I'm also going to use my existing connections within LinkedIn to push my job board into groups solely for professionals of the sector.
Doing my research, apart from the usual (totaljobs, indeed etc) there currently isn't a specific job board where these roles can be found so I'm hoping that the gap in the market is there to be filled. I'm not expecting to be making £££ within the first year at least so this is very much a spare time thing.
I really need to get my arse into gear as I have done a majority of planning but no real actions due to work constraints over the last few months.
I'd say find a focus area and research the hell out of it. See what is out there. See what you can adapt.
Good Luck - keep us posted.
Just saw so many people who tried to create a job board and they failed. Perhaps you will succeed. It can happen...
What was there niche, or didn't they have one?.
Just a job board for everyone in the world
Try to think why the recruiter profession exists and what sort problem they solve.
Yes finding relevant candidates to fill jobs advertised by companies. Can you expand on your point?.
Is that all they do?
There are so many failed jobsite projects out there. They failed for many reasons; but I can tell that a large part of them never bothered to understand how the recruiter/HR industry works.
Have you been thinking of scraping jobs?
Yes i was thinking of scraping jobs to put them all in one place, but then i guess companies wont pay if i just scrap there jobs?.
You can always use LinkedIn api to get list of jobs -https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/guide/v2/jobs
Also it would be better to find out a niche like https://remoteok.io/ does by calling it "the biggest remote job board in the world."
Few suggestions for niches -
Another thing that you may do to add value is candidate background verification after a successful placement.
You say there's an overwhelming number of job boards. They all let you easily search by city. Craigslist is the first one that comes to mind, since they isolate each city/area into its own site, so it's local by default. In spite of all this, you want to add yet another job board to the list that's already overwhelming. Sounds like it adds to the problem, rather than addressing it.
There are lots of job boards out there. How can you make yours better? Someone pointed out niche concepts such as remoteok.io. This site hit upon a good niche because people outside of big cities are desperate for better prospects and companies in big cities are desperate to address the supply/demand squeeze that they're in.
One of the main problems in the job search situation is signal-to-noise ratio. Recruiters exist in order to solve this issue by doing the labor of talking to both sides and making matches.