War. Famine. Disease.
There are many plagues which afflict humans. Another is unemployment and underemployment. That's where job boards like CollegeRecruiter.com come in. Job boards help make matches between candidates and employers by providing a common meeting place where candidates can advertise their availability by posting their resumes and applying to job postings and employers can advertise their hiring needs by searching resume banks and posting job openings.
But does the world really need more job boards? Some estimates put the number at 40,000 and others at 60,000 but my best guess is that there are some 50,000 job boards in the United States and another 50,000 in other countries for a total of 100,000 job boards internationally. To qualify as a job board, multiple candidates must be able to advertise their availability and multiple employers must be able to advertise their job openings. Some or all of that may be done for free or a fee.
The vast majority of job boards have virtually no traffic and generate virtually no revenue. Many are not designed to have huge amounts of traffic as they are part of a network of job boards. That's the approach that we've taken with most of the domains that we own. Our flagship brand is CollegeRecruiter.com but we have a number of other sites that generate candidate and employer business in various niches. We acquired some of the job boards in our network such as EntryLevelJobs.net, we created others such as StudentRecruiter.com, AlumniRecruiter.com, 800-Go-Guard.com, and Adguide.com, and Resume-Database.com, and we partnered with the owners of others to provide them with job posting data so that they will have more postings available to their visitors and thereby improve the experience for their visitors while increasing the number of responses that our employer clients receive from their job posting ads.
So, does the world need more job boards? Nah, of course not. But can the successful launch of another new job board help some candidates and employers find each other and help generate some revenue for the owner of the board? Absolutely. The world is a very big place and as long as there are job boards, there will always be room for another good job board.
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