Boost Your Job Board
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According to a 2008 study by service research group The Inavero Institute, 72% of salaried job vacancies are posted on the Internet. The study also reveals that online job boards are the favorite recruitment tool of around half of all recruiting managers. These statistics strongly suggest that a job board is one of the best possible services to offer online. This article will help you give your job board a competitive edge.
The range of benefits of an online job board includes low setup costs, no stock, and minimal expertise requirements, and that is aside from the fact that recruitment services are the fifth most commonly searched for commodity on the Internet. Online recruitment is clearly a winning formula.
Of course, this means that competition is high for a slice of the recruitment cake, especially under the current challenging economic conditions, with jobs scarce and candidates numerous. In these circumstances it is vital to maximize the effectiveness of a job board.
In this article I will present 11 key ways to give your board a boost: four of these methods will improve the appeal of your board to employers and agencies, four will help to attract and keep the most and best job seekers, and the remaining three are general suggestions that no job board can afford to ignore.
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