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:
- 2simplifi.com
- adicio.com
- attract-hr.com
- beyond.com
- boxwoodtech.com – for associations only
- drupal.org – we use drupal to run diversityjobs.com (but not this module)
- ejobsitesoftware.com
- enthrallweb.com – check out the enthralling virtual sales chick
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forcefinder.com – runs over 300 niche job boards in the U.S.
and Canada - geniusjobboards.com
- gojobs.com – for your corporate career center
- jamit.com – PHP-based
- jobamatic.com (SimplyHired.com)
- jobberbase.com – open-source project
- jobbex.com
- jobboardmount.com
- jobboardsoftware.biz
- jobboardsoftware.co.uk
- jobboardsoftware.com (SearchEase.com)
- jobcoin.com
- jobdango.com
- joblite.co.uk
- jobmark.com
- jobsinabox.net – powers jobsgroup.net
- jobtarget.com – runs boards for almost a thousand organizations
- jobthread.com – free/revenue share basis
- joobsbox.com
- kitchentwo.com – nice quick job board for just $30, mentioned on mashable.com
- madgex.com
- nowhiring.com.au – contact them for white label service
- osirecruiter.com
- parodia.net – asp based
- phpjb.com see demo here
- quickezine.com
- scriptdemo.com – php based
- smartjobboard.com
- softbizscripts.com – php based
- strategies.co.uk
- tendenci.com
- v-consultant.co.uk
- webscribble.com
- xpandedmedia.com – powers xpandedcareers.com
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Last fall I decided to add a job board to my blog and have been scouring for sources of information to no avail. Your blog has provided an education on job board implementation not found anywhere else. Thank-you!!
** es ** you are very kind Kate, thanks.
I’ve done some research on some of the software. I’ve dealt with the people at webscribble and won’t touch them. Luckily I didn’t purchase the software. I run 4 job boards at the moment and use jamit on all 4. Its ugly but for the money it is the best value.
Please update to include Beyond.com.
You are 100% right. You really set up a job board in a day now. But two hurdles are still here:
1. Where to get your jobs from – Free trial?
2. Where to get your traffic from? – Especially when there are no jobs there jet? – Set up a recruitement blog perhaps?
Ivan | http://www.JobsBlog.ie
**es** Those are key issues. But, there are also more options than ever for both including our diversityjobs.com for acquiring traffic.
Eric,
Can you rank the top 3-5 job board software providers? If you were going to send out an RFP for replacing Latpro’s platform, who would be on your short list for consideration?
Thanks,
Ryan
**es** I sure would like to Ryan, but I have no experience with any of them. I was hoping to get feedback from job board owners in the comments here, but it has not happened. Most job board owners are busy wearing seven hats. You won’t find them too often mucking around with blogs, lol.
Dear Eric,
Please kindly consider an update for your list:
JobMount – http://www.jobboardmount.com
Thank you.
**es** done
Hey folks !
What is the best Job Board software?
To me xpandedmedia.com seems quite good but I am not totally amazed…
Is there any C# based job board?
Php is quite an outdated language…
You should be amazed my friend.
With xpandedmedia.com , the 2009 release includes feature and tools far superior to anything else available on the market. Whats more, you should keep a track of our product development. We have a bunch of new features about to roll out in the coming months, including SMS capability, mobile applications integration (i-phone etc), 3 new languages are about to be added (we currently have the system in Swedish, Spanish and English. German, French and Italian are on the way). We dont claim to be the best just yet, but we are the most proactive in terms of development, personalization and customization. The rest, is just a matter of time.
Good luck in our search for a provider!
Hi Eric,
Please consider adding TOV to your list. We provide video functionality to job boards. Live interview, job ads, profiles etc. anything you can think of.
how about open source based software? recently I’ve developed an extension for joomla. here is the sample http://www.jobsyndicates.com/
well, i think job board websites will growth more and more…
Thank you for compiling this list, I will definitely use it to purchase job board software.
FYI- Webscribble is listed on Rip off Report http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/444/RipOff0444567.htm
and has an F rating from the Better Business Bureau. I purchased the software and it does not work.
Google Webscribble and scam, it’s not pretty.
Please warn your readers.