The benefits of running your own Job Board

So, why incorporate a job board on your website?  And, once it's there will the financial benefits outweigh the cost of maintaining it?

Firstly, assuming you are looking to improve your recruitment processes and reduce your cost per hire, then look at the daily traffic that your site currently gets along with the type of information that people access on your site.  If you get 10 visitors a day from other countries and they generally leave once visiting the home page, then a job board is not what you need.

Have a look at the following indicators before evaluating job board software:

Daily Visitors: There is no specific minimum number of daily visitors, but generally speaking, if you have 300+ daily visitors you may find benefits through a job board.

Pages Viewed: If your daily visitors are navigating through multiple pages of your site and accessing the Contact and About Us pages, they may be looking to interact with your business through your website.  This may indicate an opportunity to launch a job board.

Country Location: Check your site stats and make sure that the majority of visitors to your site are in your country. 

Search Engine Optimised (SEO): Ensure that you have optimised your website content for indexing by Google, Yahoo and Bing.   

Financial Benefits of Online Job Board Software

Niche job boards are generally less expensive to maintain than generic public job boards.  Also, if you populate your talent database with strong candidates, the first place to find candidates is your own database rather than through other channels.

Using a 3rd party supplier of job board software is cheaper than building your own job board, hiring staff to support it and putting the necessary hardware in place.

Business Benefits of Online Job Board Software

A job board enhances the service offering of you website.  It adds to the branding and professionalism of your site and allows you to interact with people excited to work for your company.

With Trecruit, searching your database of candidates is accurate, fast and simple. Rather than trawling through your Outlook InBox looing for a CV you received several months back, you're now able to save time and effort in retrieving top talent.

In depth reporting allows you to track the efficiencies of your recruitment process from creating a job spec to making a placement.