Job board software providers list

Jul 12, 2008

writing job board software Job board experts agree that running a job board is getting more difficult as time goes by -- but launching a board is easier than ever. In a couple of hours, without even pulling out your credit card you can create a reasonably functional and good-looking website with today's social networking tools or blog software.

How times have changed... To start LatPro in 1997, I learned to program in Visual Basic and wrote all the code myself for a little more than two years. That code was all replaced in 2000 and today comprises 162,000 lines of java code, 310,000 lines of PHP code and 43,000 lines of html. Much of it will get replaced again. At LatPro, we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on our software and infrastructure.

Technology headaches, in fact, are what motivates many job board owners to sell their business. The flip side of the coin is that the possibility of eliminating programming expenses is also one of the drivers for consolidation in the job board industry. So, it is no small matter that today a budding job board entrepreneur does not have to be a programmer, learn to program, or pay programmers.

Job board software really started to appear on the market after the NASDAQ crash when job board companies launched during the Internet boom saw they were in a nose dive. Many successfully repurposed themselves as software providers... So do you want to use software offered by a failed job board? I see no reason why not -- job boards that fail mostly do so thanks to their marketing or lack thereof and not on account of the software.

This list of job board software providers was started anonymously and I have done my best to update and polish it: