We’ve just rolled out the ability to Apply to Jobs via LinkedIn. Here’s a quick screen grab: In order for this to appear as an option on your Job Board you’ll need to do several things. 1. Create an account … Read More
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New transaction level detail
Cool little tweak as the result of adding Job Packages. When a transaction has gone through ecommerce, we provide some insights as to what happened, if something went wrong, and how the fee’s were calculated. From your admin panel, when … Read More
New Feature: Job Packages!
Exciting news! The JobBoard.io platform now allows you to create Packages of Jobs to offer your employers. This would allow you to offer something like ”5 Jobs for $X” where X is usually a discounted rate vs. buying 5 Jobs … Read More
New Feature: Adsense Integration
We’re always looking for ways to help you monetize your job boards – the latest way is with Google Adsense. We’ve made it simple to provide Adsense code for three locations on your job board: The site header (sits above … Read More
Improved Indeed.com Backfill Matching
Quick update of the day – we’ve now incorporated end user search into your Indeed.com backfill. Now when a users searches for a Company, Job Title, Location, Profession, etc – that information gets passed to Indeed and your Backfill … Read More
New plan options
We are pleased to introduce some changes to our plan structures. First and foremost, we’ve launched a Revenue Share plan. This is great plan for folks just getting started with their job board who aren’t yet ready for a … Read More
A small, but important SEO enhancement
We just added a tweak to our platform that should help avoid any duplicate content issues with search engines. As you may know, you can access your job board not only at your own custom domain, but also at youraccount.jobboard.io. … Read More
New Feature: Backfill your job board w/ Indeed.com job listings!
We have an exciting announcement to make today. Thanks to a technology partnership with Indeed.com, JobBoard.io publishers can now easily incorporate job listings from Indeed’s vast database of job listings. Via an integration with their API, we’ve made … Read More
New Feature: Custom Categories
We are excited to announce the launch of a much requested feature – custom Categories! You can now create your own set of Categories for posters to select when purchasing job listings on your site. To setup simply go to … Read More
New Feature: Custom Headers
Want more control over the look and feel of your job board? Need to blend it in better with an existing website? Now you can completely replace our standard site header with your own custom HTML. In your admin panel … Read More
New Feature: Add jobs from your control panel
File this one under: “why didn’t we include this sooner”. You can now add job listings from directly within your admin panel. This allows you to avoid going through you front end site to post – making it more efficient, … Read More
New Feature: Enhanced Applicant Tracking
We are excited to announce new and improved applicant tracking on the JobBoard.io platform. When posting on your site Employers can provide one of two methods to receive applications: 1. A direct email address.2. An external link (usually to … Read More
We've rebuilt coupons!
As of today we have completely revamped our coupon capability. Previously you could only set percentage discounts, and they only worked if Stripe was your payment provider. Our new coupon capabilities allow you to do the following: 1. You can … Read More
New Feature: International Payment support!
We are pleased to finally offer support for international payments via Braintree. With Braintree you can now setup ecommerce on your job board if you are based in the UK, EU, Canada or Australia. You’ll need to apply for an … Read More
New Feature: Apply to job
We added an exciting new feature to the Jobboard.io job board platform today – the ability to allow users to apply to jobs via your site. Until today – candidates would have to follow a direct link to the employer’s … Read More
Hacker News Follow-Up
A Show Hacker News Follow Up Getting JobBoard.io up and running has been an all consuming project over the past six months or so. We feel strongly that the niche job board market is ripe for disruption. We’d had the … Read More
How to Promote Your Job Board
How to promote your job board Over the years we’ve gained some valuable experience learning what works and what doesn’t when it comes to promoting our niche job boards. We thought we’d take some time to share some tips with … Read More
New Feature: Internationalization
New feature: Internationalization Since we’ve launched, without a doubt the most asked question has been “Do you support my local language?”. We’ve had requests for Japanese, Spanish, German, Portuguese and more. While somewhat surprised by this, we were excited by … Read More
New Feature: Custom Sales Pitch
New feature: Custom Sales Pitch on Checkout Here at JobBoard.io our goal it to help you sell job postings and be successful in your niche. This new feature should help you do that. We’ve added the ability to add a … Read More
New feature: Custom Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions
We’re constantly working to help you make your job board your own. We’ve now launched the ability to have your own custom Terms & Condition and Privacy Policy Pages. The option is available in the admin panel under Site … Read More
New Feature: Stripe Connect
New feature: Integration with Stripe Connect We use Stripe as our payment provider. We think they are awesome, charge reasonable rates and provide top notch tech and customer service. Previously if you wanted to charge for job listings on … Read More
New Feature: Mailchimp
New feature: Email list sign up via Mailchimp Email lists are proven to be one of the most effective ways to monetize your job board. Being able to repeatedly & regularly reach an audience that has opted in to receive … Read More
New Feature: Themes!
Want to give your job board software a new look but don’t want to mess w/ the underlying CSS? We’ve launched the ability to change the look of your board with the click of a button using themes! For now … Read More
New Feature: Text Editor
New Feature: Enhanced WYSIWYG Editor! We’ve replaced our somewhat limited Rich Text Editor (used for entering the full text of the job desciption) with the more elegant Redactor editor. This editor creates much cleaner HTML, allows you to edit the underlying … Read More
New Feature: Responsive Design
Responsive Design We’ve made some improvements to our job posting forms when they are on mobile and tablet sizes. Previously the forms labels and alignment were off making it quite difficult to post jobs from these devices. This has been … Read More
New Feature: Upgrade your listing!
We’ve added the ability to let you offer a Featured Listing upsell on your sites. Folks posting jobs can have their listing remain “pinned” to the top of the page for seven days as well as highlight them so they … Read More
JobBoard.io launches!
We feel strongly that the niche job board software market is ripe for disruption. That disruption starts now. Welcome to the first iteration of JobBoard.io – our platform for launching & operating niche job boards. As a team we’ve been … Read More