Why we launched a Job Board app

Our first product is Fuselagejobs which lets you easily start your own job board and list job vacancies online. It might seem like a strange choice for a hosted web application. Job listings have been on the web for a long time and there are established big players as well as open source alternatives. So where do we fit in?

Big Players

The big job databases have lots of traffic, lots of employers and lots of candidates. They list jobs from different industries and rely on search to find what you are looking for. That’s ok, but maybe not the best way for candidates to find interesting jobs and for employers to find the best candidates. It all seems very big and impersonal.

Niche Job Boards

Small job boards that target an industry niche or geographical area are becoming popular. We saw great success with Djangogigs, a job board for web developers who use the Django framework. That’s a good example of a tightly-focussed industry niche. It was launched over a year ago and has had over 500 jobs submitted so far. It quickly became the de facto place for employers to post job ads and candidates to look for work in that niche.

Many of the large blogs and other websites with a lot of users have started their own job boards as a way of helping their community and generating some revenue. The jobs are focussed enough that they are interesting to the website regulars. Employers pay to advertise knowing the people who see their job adverts are the type of candidates they’d like to attract.

DIY for non-geeks

So why not use one of the open source packages to set up your own job board? You could if you have the technical skills or have staff to do that for you. If you don’t want to wait for the IT guys or in-house developers to get round to it, Fuselagejobs is a good alternative. It’s easy to use, requires no technical skills and is fully hosted. Just sign up and start adding jobs within minutes.

Innovation

A basic job board is pretty easy to develop, but we think there’s room for innovation to make it easier for the right candidates to find the right jobs. As always, we’re keen to hear your feedback on what you’d like job boards to do for you.

So that’s why we launched a job board app!

Check out Fuselagejobs and create your own job board for free.