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Job board widgets

A job widget is a tool used by a job board to display its jobs or search box on other web sites. It's basically a banner, button or skyscraper with customized content which is of course job ads. But if a picture is worth a thousand words, see the right margin for a really good example of a jobs widget. For more about them have a look at Born's widget reviews. Here's a list of job widgets:

Job boards with vc funding

You can still start up a job board in the spare bedroom and work like the devil. But, Venture Capitalist firms have been backing job boards for years and with the right pedigree or a prior success in an employment related business, VC money might be waiting for you. Venture-backed job boards may also benefit from the business experience and resources of the backer along with the cash. Either way, you'll work like the devil to succeed.

Here is a list of vc backed job boards and their backers:

Big shots start their own job boards

As the job board industry blossoms and matures from a few big generalist boards to a niche job board for almost every demographic and industry, it's only natural that employees of the large boards are spreading their wings and starting their own boards:

Recent job board launches

The past few years have been big ones for the Job Board industry. They saw the launch of scads of new job boards in large and niche markets. This year seems to be following suit. Here are some of the most recent new job boards hitting the market.

April 2008

Job board acquisitions - the list

It feels like job board acquisitions in the US are accelerating. The two primary buyers seem to be Jobing.com and OnTargetJobs.com but other contenders may include Dice, JobServe and Jupiter Media. Kennedy Information has also recently compiled a report entitled Mergers & Aquisition Dynamics for Employment Web Sites which you can purchase by emailing Brian Skinner at bskinner @ kennedyinfo.com.

For those interested in European Job Board acquisitions, see Julian Stopp's list.

Here's the list:

RecruitingNevada.com acquired by Greenspun Media - April, 2008

Inspirational movies for business leaders

I especially enjoy sports and coaching movies because they often provide a great metaphor for business life. Here's a list of the ones I've enjoyed:

The Heart of the Game

Vertical job search engines - the list

In the recruiting blogs, I've seen some heated discussion about the future of job search verticals (also known variously as job aggregators and job metasearch sites) but I haven't seen a list anywhere of the sites themselves. So I'm going to keep a list here:

My favorites tools and media

basecamp is a phenomenal project management and collaboration tool.

twitter with twhirl is great for networking and being in the know.

google reader is great for reading rss feeds.

editpadlite makes an editor far better than the windows version.

snagit is great for screen captures, editing them and sending to developers.

Books I like

books that I like or have found useful:

business

• built to last by Jim Collins
• don't shoot the dog, the new art of teaching and training by Karen Pryor
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