CrunchBoard Job Board: Stats After One Week
Michael Arrington
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The CrunchBoard job board officially launched last Thursday. We’ve gathered some interesting stats on the service after being up almost a week.
CrunchBoard is permanently linked from TechCrunch in two spots (top nav bar and right sidebar), as well as MobileCrunch. More links are being integrated. There have been a total of 75 jobs posted on the site, or about ten per day. Both large and small companies are using it for their hiring needs - customers include Fox (including listings for Myspace, Fox Sports, IGN and other properties), NBC, Six Apart, Pandora, Sharpcast, MobiTV, Photobucket, Piczo, Meevee, Simply Hired, Browster, Flock, and many others. I think the coolest job listed so far has to go to Fox - how would you like to be on the mergers and acquisitions team of the company that bought Myspace a year ago? 
Jobs have been listed in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Tel Aviv, Austin, Tempe, Cambridge, Los Angeles, San Diego and even New Zealand.
The most popular category is programming, followed by sales/marketing/bizdev and design.
The site has had just under 100,000 visitors and 180,000 page views - a lot of people are looking at these jobs.
What interests me most is the feedback from listers, who are saying just a few resumes are coming in but that they of very high quality, from people who know the industry.
More updates as things progress. Thanks to everyone who’s written about CrunchBoard. Ping me with updates and I’ll add them here. And what I really want to know about are success stories. If you’ve found a job through CrunchBoard, email me and let me know about it, along with your blog address if you have one.
Blogs talking about CrunchBoard: Rafe Needleman at CNET, Om Malik, Savino Sguera, more
100,000 visitors in just ONE WEEK for a BRAND NEW SITE - is quite impressive
If this pace keeps up, by the end of the year …..
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I don’t know what to think of this wave of new niche-oriented job sites.
First the guys at 37signals add one, then the primary RadRails developer put one up:
http://www.kyleshank.com/artic.....-job-board
I guess if it’s profitable then go for it, but I think this is a radically underreported shift in the way jobs are traditionally sought on the internet. It used to be you went to the BIG JOB BOARD (monster, headhunter, etc.) but now there’s all these niche ones where you pick your industry first (http://cruisejobfinder.com for example) and work from there.
Good luck on the job board Michael.
$2,000 per day for a brand new site - is quite impressive
Nice to see TechCrunch is expanding, Job offerings is a good way to leverage the highly targeted audience that TechCrunch has.
Congrats.. nice site.
Gee, $15,000 in one week from this… plus $60,000/month from banners, you sure are rackin’ in the big bucks!
tom - it all goes to a very good cause - paying my writers, designer and hosting provider.
Must be a california thing… Most of the jobs are in Cali.
Micheal:
How much are you paying for hosting and who’s your provider?
JamesM, it appears to be Media Temple.. good guys there.
JamesM - there are a lot of california jobs, particularly northern California, but I’m happy to see other areas as well. Two Israeli jobs came in this evening.
I use Media Temple for most of the sites, and EV1 (a sponsor of ours) for CrunchBoard and a new blog we are launching next week.
Yeah, Media Temple has extraordinary customer service. EV1 is cool because they can get a server up in 5 mins after your order.
and…Layered Tech is the single worst hosting provider I’ve ever dealt with.
What I like about what you have done is to not have a required login system like careerbuilder or monster. Direct applications via email is great.
What I would like to see is a location search as well as a customizable feed. So I could say “show me marketing in atlanta, feed please”.
– Allen
We (photobucket) had posted 3 jobs on CrunchBoard and have had a positive experience thus far. We are getting less resume’s than maybe a monster or dice, but the ones we get are much more qualified. I’d be surprised if we don’t fill at least one of these positions in the coming weeks from a CrunchBoard referral. A few hundred bucks sure beats the $20k or so a recruiter will get you for.
Thanks TechCrunch - great addition to the site.
Alex
As non-Cali reader, I wish only for one thing - filtering all offerings by location. It’ll be pretty hard to scroll through all positions soon.
Filtered RSS will be a good addition to that.
Sergey
Yep, we’re on it.
The low-quantity, high-quality indicator is one that my company found last month using 37signals’ Job Board. These niche job boards, hopefully, will work quite nicely in sifting the gold from the dirt.
There will be a new feature set rollout in the next week or so based on what users have been asking for..
As for the hosting provider, we can write a book on hosting providers.. perhaps someday
Oh now you’re deleting comments that have something thats not positive about your site?
Nice set of double standards you have here at Techcrunch. People can critique other web 2.0 companies but saying anything bad about any -Crunch offerings and its deleted.
Mike,
I have to say the quality of the inquiries into our VPE job posting have been quit impressive. I received 10 resumes in the first 3 days of posting the job. Definitely has provide a great start for our search.
Michael,
I posted a similar comment over on the omgiga site too. I can understand (and applaud) your monetarisation strategy, but I wonder whether the world needs yet another freeform attach your resume job and email it board. For someone that is so close to all the innovation in web 2.0, I would have expected more than a rehash of 1997 job boards.
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