starting a niche job board website

[glenn0728]

Hi guys,

I would like to create a nice job board website (think monster.com) but on a much smaller scale and in a career niche. I'm willing to make the commitment to get it successful.

there are some free job board software templates floating around out there on the internet, but I don't really know where to begin on this.

I would have several parts to the site:

candidates can post resumes
employers can search resumes
candidates can search for posted jobs
employers can post jobs

group discussion boards and forums for peole (similar to what the warrior forum would offer it it were part of a job site for internet marketers)


I'm not really sure how to get started. Does anyone have any advice?


my IM is neosoccer728 if anyone wants to IM me and chat about it.

Thanks!
Glenn

[pabbe]

It would be very difficult for you to get people post their resumes on your site in the beginning. May be you can try something like this.


Jobsbyref .com

[glenn0728]

I'd probably do that by doing the leg work myself and contacting people who have posted on monster, dice, careerbuilder, etc. and personally invite them to post on my board.

if that was too time consuming, people usually put their email adresses in their resumes. I'd basically be poaching from other, larger existing job boards, at least to get started.

[dogisland]

I think jobberbase has great looking software jobberBase - The Open Source Job Board Software

[nata_sha]

I think that would be hard to do it all on yourself ... probably you'd need some employers to do what you are talking about (contacting people at monster.com, etc to post CVs at ur website)

[madison_avenue]

Start by building traffic in your niche by giving good information.

You can do deals with existing online recruitment companies to place their Job search engine on your site. They will pay you for each completed CV uploaded.

In another sidebar you can start adverting some of your own jobs.