Job Board Widgets

Job board Widgets are now in production

Do a google search on "Linux Kernel Job", and our widgets over on kerneltrap.org come up first.

I am very proud of that.  It really confirms this whole concept of job board widgets.

Of course it is not the small widget that comes up first, it is the bigger ones that really get used.  LIve and learn.

Chris

Widgets Cause Spam

Say you are looking for a python developer.  There are only 6 websites or so where python developers and only python developers spend their time.  So we would need to host python job market widgets on those websites, and no where else.

Put them up anywhere else, and you just get spam resumes.

HTML Fragment

Well I just added the html fragment for my widgets to my pages.  Frankly I think most people can hack html.  Maybe I am wrong.  Maybe not.  Before doing all these fancy widget configurations, let us just make it easy for someone to post the html fragment to their site.

Review of Job Board Widgets

Well here is a review of job board widgets.

http://blog.snipperoo.com/2007/05/widget_job_boar_1.html

Of course they failed to review mine, which I think is terribly unfair.  But I will go ahead and review theirs.

You can't just make a job board for widgeteers.  They could be on any platform.  What you need is our kind of job board, where I can give a list of platforms to choose from and the widgeteer or hiring manager can post on the right platform.  Maybe I will demo that tomorrow. 

Hire My Readers

And here is the our elevator pitch to blog owners.

We help your readers get great jobs.  We let readers post resumes on your site.  We let readers post jobs on your site. We list interesting jobs on your site.  This keeps readers on your site and attracts them back to your site.    We organize your readers resumes and help hiring managers find them.

Let me know what I can do for you.… (more) We customize the widget to your reader demographics. We change the appearance of this widget to fit your graphics design.  It is easy to provide you with a free service.  Send me an email and we can talk about if there is any money to be made among your target demographic. lozinski@specialtyjobmarkets.com

Using Job Board Widgets to find Passive Candidates

     Widgets are the best way to find passive candidates.  A good job board widget brings the jobs to the professional websites where candidates spend their time,  and makes it easy to upload their resume without distracting them, overloading them with questions, or scaring them off.

    By definition passive candidates do not spend any time on job boards.  But professionals do spend a lot of time on professional web sites.    Statistics show that 27% of internet usage is people reading professional web sites.  Time spent on job boards is so small as to not even be tracked.  There may be several relevant professional websites in an industry. To maximise the chances of finding a passive candidate the best way is to find the professional web sites where they spend their time, and have interesting jobs scroll by, in a box on the sidebar.  This is what job board widgets do.  They are small html fragments that can be added to another web site to provide interesting content, such as job listings, a detailed job description, and a resume posting box.

     If it is a good widget,  with an interesting list of jobs, maybe the passive candidate's  eyes will wander over there.  Perhaps they will learn to always check out the list of jobs.  Certainly many of the site users will find job listings to be valuable content  that they appreciate.

     With our widgets, once the candidate is interested, they can click to read about the job, they can click to upload their resume.  Mission Accomplished.   Could well be a historically "passive" candidate.  Of course once the candidate is in our  database, they are by definition no longer a passive candidate.   

     I believe that our widgets are the best at harvesting passive candidate's resumes.   We keep the process really simple.  Other widgets first take the candidate to their company's website, then direct the candidate to yet another job board.   Some job boards ask lots of questions, frequently scaring off candidates.  Every additional step reduces the probability that a given candidate will submit their resume.

     Better to leave the passive candidate on the site they know, and just ask for a simple resume upload.  That minimizes the chance of loosing them.  Like fishing, you want them to take the bait, and not be scared off.   

     In my opinion our widgets are the best at catching passive candidates.  In fact, I think that they are the only job board widgets designed to find passive candidates.

Comparison of Widgets II

Historically active job seekers went to monolithic job boards and emailed out their resume to lots of companies.  I pity the people who had to read those resumes and sort throught the spam.  Worse yet, with networking, you can now search hundreds of job boards simultaneously. 

We do things differently.   27% of internet usage is people visiting work related sites.  So we post our widgets on work related sites where passive candidates can see them.  The passive candidate only needs to post his resume once in our database to permanently become an active job seeker.   The questions we ask make it easy to create a short list of candidates.     Then we have a live person help the managers recruit the best candidate for their position. 

No spam in this recruiting process.  Web 2.0 for recruiting.

Widget Strategy

I tried to get my widgets advertised on the big HR websites, but they already had job boards, and my job-board in a widget competed with their existing boards. 

A better place to host my widgets are blogs.   All HR blogs could benefit from a widget listing HR jobs.  My widget works great.  There is one such blog in australia.  The other job board widgets do not cover australia, only secondarily.  So I am off to polish up my widgets, put up a free HR Human Resources job board, along with widgets, and then ask the HR blogosphere to host my widgets.  All those nice refreshing jobs should be good content for the HR readers and their blogs.

Who wants my widgets

If your read the last post about how 27% of internet usage is people visiting professionally related web sites, and no noticeable percentage is job boards, then clearly if you want to get passsive candidates then you need widgets on content sites.  And who wants passive candidates?  HR professionals.  I have had a hard time getting the HR websites to host my widget, but I bet HR bloggers would love a list of jobs off a free HR job board.  It would make their blog more interesting, and attract more users and more page views.   So that is my next target.  Let me see what the HR bloggers have to say about these widgets.

Contextual Advertising

Here is a very clear argument why you want to advertise for the right people at the web sites where they hang out.

That is why a post resume widget is needed, so that you can easily harvest the right candidates while they are reading their preferred content.

Check out our job market widget, which includes a post resume panel.