Job Board Software Cheap V Low Cost ideas..

Millionaire

Hi

Can anyone help me out with this, this is more as an experiment, as opposed to doing something professional with it.

I am looking for link, ideas, websites, on how to set up a cheapo low low cost (almost for free) job board.

Now I see the $499 off shelf packages, as I have been searching on google, & I m in the staff finding biz long enough to know you get what you day for, (this I stress has nothing to do with my day job in staffing).

What is the difference between buying an off the shelf job board basic set up for a few 100 $ as opposed to a "Job Board Script"? I saw an job board script (cant remember name or url) for like $50, & it had good reviews from techies on a forum I was reading?

I am not very good with software, so if I bought a script, would I have to hire a Web Designer to configure it, and set it up on a domian name etc?

I did buy a job board script for $30 about 2 years ago on ebay, but seem to have lost it, & no time to find out how to use it.

So if anyone has any ideas at all , on a cheap and cheerful job board idea, please let me know, I have a few domain names on godaddy.com. So for $50 could I buy something onlione and get a very basic Job Board?

It seems Google has something too, you can use, I saw this site, jobboard, very basic ezlug.co.uk or elug.co.uk or similar, just some google search feature which sort of worked as a cheapo job board.

Budget is next to zero, so $50 scripts for job boards, do I need a techie to install & program on them?

What about if I used a simple forum on godaddy, and stuck that under a domain? home made job board or what?

A free blog on blogger? with Keywords in URL for job sector you are going to post jobs for, say
Silagecuttersjobstipperary.blogspot.com & lash you in between some interview & job hunting blog posts, a few of them useful posts a week, and in between stick up, and add for a job you have?

Now if I was doing something professional I would be down spending on a top package with SEO, but this is not the case, I am trying to improvise, come up with a cheap or free ish job board.

Thanks for any help? I have boring weekends, so I decided what could us poor guys do to poke Monster.com in the eye! LOL!

Gerry

Gordon

You could just stick a free BB under a domain yes, but if you want to poke monster.com in the eye then you will need a real solution. And that's going to cost you more than 50notes unless you know how to code.

Take a look at phpClassifieds. It's free if you don't use it commercially.

Trojan

I researched jobs board software exhaustively recently - it's a pain in the proverbial.

After much pain I decided on Jamit ( http://www.jamit.com/ ) for $199. I haven't spent much time configuring it, but from exhaustive research it fit my needs. Some other options that you should look at:

1. http://www.softbizscripts.com/jobs-recruitment-script.php: $175.00
2. http://www.webscribble.com/products/webjobs/index.shtml: $199.00
charges for extra features: CV builder, payment gateway etc
3. http://www.dieselscripts.com/diesel-job-site-uk.html: £22.00
Note http://securityvulns.com/Mdocument718.html before using
4. http://www.mojoscripts.com/packages/index.shtml: $349.00

AARRRGH

I wrote the software behind www.staff.ie

This is why -

I wanted the website to do exactly what I would want as an employer and jobseeker. The "off the shelf" websites do not do that. I worked in recruitment (as financial controller) for a couple of years and felt I understood what works and what doesn't work.

To really enjoy and feel passionate about your websites they need to have your personality. Having a "cute" and friendly feel is very important to me, and the off the shelf solutions have none of those things. They are actually completely personalityless in my opinion...

If you do decide to go the route of getting someone to create a job website for you, be aware that it is actually a pretty big job, and takes a long time to get right. I'm still not completely happy with staff.ie, and I've been working on it for three years...

Personally I think spending the money and time to get it right is a lot more important than just lashing something up there.

Millionaire

Great, thank you kindly for the information. Yes its hardwork, as I am really just experimenting, and if I get a few extra CVs in, all the better.

I look forward over weeking to check out links you gave me.

Thats a great web site you did Dublindude www.staff.ie its simple in feel & easy to nav about, which is important to me. Yes I understand your reasons totally, I agree, I am not myself going into the joboard biz, I m just looking for other ways of generating a few extra CVs. for full commerical project, top of the line is the way to go, or do your own like you, if you got the skills.

Mark there at hookhead, I assume he did his own http://www.hookhead.ie I think he gets good traffic on there.

What about http://www.bestjobs.ie they are international and free for basic account, I guess a recuitment agency owns them, its very annoymous who is behind it, however to the OP point, its a simple site to use, navigate & post jobs on.

I found this one http://www.quickezine.com/jobbase_sql/default.asp

$59 for starter pack. It seems to have all the basics?

Scripts though, I asked about, is that something Id need a web or developer for definate?
Its just basic IT job titles I want to have on there. and very simple in all ways.

I also found this one, any light to shed to this...

http://www.mojoscripts.com/products/mojojobs/index.shtml

Again Scripts?

I am not Stingy, if I was doing it professionally as a business id go for the high end for sure.

I recently through referral, was contact my a company in a UK city to find Network Support Engineers, so while I was at it, I got a few more computer cos on board in same city. Its all Techincal Support, so I wanted to see, cheap & cheerful & poor mans internet marketing etc, & for a bit of fun to be honest with you, challenge, get a free job board for that IT niche I work, in the UK city area, & might get a few extra Cvs out of it.

I cannot stand paying sterling to them big Uk job boards, & hard sell sales pitch drilling my brain, as if I was Addecco with 1000s offices all over the world, its like, lads, I have about 2 jobs a month there, save the big speil for the whales.

So I want to see can, I do my own wee thing, & see what happens, its just minno stuff, & will help the find some CVs, maybe sort a few lads out with a better job & we're all happy & its a bit of craic too, since I am not a techie, I get a great pride out of figuring out & achieving a small goal like this. Pass the savings in ads from Not having to use jobserver etc , on to the clients in low fees etc...

Trojan, are you free to show us, what you have on www.jamit.com? as an example, if you are working confidential, thats ok, I understand.


Any other ideas on the OP?

Thanks Kindly Again

Gerry

AARRRGH

Gerry

What you could do is buy one of the cheap scripts and then if there are bits and pieces you want changed, post a job for them on www.scriptlance.com and an Indian or Eastern Europe programmer will do them for cheap (really cheap!).

I use scriptlance all the time and it works out well.

Millionaire

Perfect! A more specialised version of elance.com. Excellent Thanks!

Was checking out all your sites, nice & clean & simple, thats the best way. Looking at monster makes my head spin!

So the cheap job board script, if it put it on of my IT Jobs domains I have on godaddy.com & hired an offshore guy on www.scriptlance.com to rig the thing up, etc, I could have a very basic simple, which is for now what I want, stand alone, independent of IT staff biz on my sig below, simple job board on own domain, let people post away for free their IT jobs on it, (ok sure getting traffic is another ball game, so lets leave the SEO aside on this post), & see how it works out, will I get my few extra Network Support Cvs, for my UK clients, without having to go to massive expense on the sterling pounds UK job boards etc?)

I already got a few domains related to the sub niche in IT I do, so sounds like if I used, and I read good reports on this one on a forum before... http://www.dieselscripts.com/diesel-job-site-uk.html: £22.00 and Note http://securityvulns.com/Mdocument718.html before using

Or if I really splashed out for (better price on exchange rate)
http://www.quickezine.com/jobbase_sql/default.asp
$59 for starter pack Jobbase, got a coder for real cheap, I would have a basic, but functional IT Job board up and running in a week or so for Euro 100? (interesting, 1 good CV per year would pay for that 1000% over! if you placed the engineer in a job).

I see is there any more input, and over the next week start this, & post an update.

What about a Blog, free on Blogger, register with all blog directories, where you give job hunting, interview tips, advice on your sub niche, you want to attract staff from, make it a very close community feeling, & of course, post in full descriptions of your latest jobs, & within reason, people could question & answer?

(I like blogger as I find it very simple, for me as I hate complicated stuff,). As we know blogs can get up the search engines quickly, if good content & attended to regular.
What about that, as another way of a simple cheap "job board" well the goal is to get a CV, so if you go blog route or cheap cheerful job board route, (I am coming from view point of end goal, as opposed to means of getting there).
What you think of Blog as a Job Board idea, this would probably be just your own jobs?

Someone else said a forum stand alone to post job on, would be better for this, any ideas or opinions?

Thanks

Gerry

AARRRGH

I don't really see the advantage of using blogs for recruitment, so it's not something I would bother with. It might work for you though, so there's no harm in giving it a shot I suppose!

Everything you said about setting up the site, etc. Yep, that should work. It's only going to cost a few hundred dollars max, so I think it is worth the risk.

I think it's important that the jobsites are roughly similar looking and in concept to other jobsites, so I would steer clear of the forum idea...

Millionaire

Thats what I ll do so, a few 100 bucks, & get Indian coder to do it properly, then see how she goes. Reading a few eBooks on cheapo SEO, probably childs play to some of you guys, but to me, a little extra traffice for free can make all the difference.

I m going to give the blog a go for the fun too, I want it to be a place of honesty, & integrity (yes a few of us are honest, & straight, & have not sold our mothers), a place where aside from the usual job blog stuff, people can ask me as a recruiter an question (say if job their going for is not with me) & I can give them an straight answer or advice, thats win win. & of course post up an odd job as discussed.

Yes, its only fair, might take a few months, or sooner, but I will report back on my efforts and show you guys what I have come up with.

URGENT: I just read this as posted above http://securityvulns.com/Mdocument718.html

a very serious reason NOT to use Diesel Jobs Script. the http://www.dieselscripts.com/diesel-job-site-uk.html

The guy in that complained in the post marked URGENT, (me as a non techie), that information he found, which was sending his web site info back to Diesel Jobs, why would Diesel Jobs want that info, & what would or could they use that info for?

(for example is it just a bit of nosey, OTT web marketing surveying, or is it, like someone trying to back into your bank account & steal a few thousand euro electronically??? Is is THAT Serious?) if someone can please explain
More feedback, opinions, info, tips on OP, still very welcome!

Gerry

Millionaire

This one is interesting... http://www.uklug.co.uk/

BRENSH

Personally I think spending the extra time learning php and javascript will reduce costs. If you had time on your side (a couple of months). There are not the most difficult of languages. Well javascript is quirky so you must learn that with rigour but php is a normal imperative programming language based on perl. To really speed up development you could use the many amazing frameworks out there that give you many cool features. I would recommend Zend as it is the PHP leader in framwork design and it is used by the likes of IBM. Very simple to use and implement. Finally on the client based side YUI (Yahoo user interface) is a great library which could make your site looking amazing.

I am currently using YUI and ZEND for a massive redevelopment of my website. IRISH RADIO PORTAL. If only I had more style

Best of luck..

Never spend money if you have time and smarts

MichaelTis

I recommend www.SmartJobBoard.com. I’ve tried it for my project and pretty impressed. It’s open source, so you can easily modify it to your requirements.