I have a job board, which is designed to help young people to find their first jobs. E.g. someone working at McDonalds, or their local supermarket. I too am around that age which I believe can be an advantage in terms of getting job seekers.

Aside from this, my site is fine, it’s functional and all that (i used an envato theme & wordpress) but I’m not sure what the best way to get employers and candidates is.

I think I should post the jobs myself in the beginning and I also think that I should be very localised, e.g near where I live because the people I’m targeting want jobs near them.

How do you suggest that I should get my first users. Should I use social media, ads, content, post jobs myself, email companies, visit shops? Something else?

Thanks for reading this and I appreciate any/all advice.

  • thewolfofslovenia@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve worked on something similar in the past & was looking at how many jobs (even promoted ones) were listed on some sites.

    It was for web3… what I discovered is that these sites mostly take jobs from other sites and just post on theirs… One of the people in the space even said that he does that and after 12+ months he’s still trying to be profitable after paying for bubble, apps, etc.

    Not trying to discourage you but that was my finding about 3 or 4 months in with a community of 500+ people on Discord, looking to find a job in web3.

    Most of them were from 3rd world country, probably just looking to take any job that they would get - so the few serious companies I actually got in contact with immediately turned them away. I even tried negotiating for an internship, but it didn’t work.

  • leros@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You’re trying to build what is called a two sided marketplace. It’s very difficult.

    You need lots of jobseekers first to attract companies to post jobs. You need lots of jobs first to attract jobseekers. It’s basically impossible to start from zero.

    A common strategy is to hack your way into having one side to acquire the other side. Companies like Uber paid drivers crazy rates when they signed up even though nobody was requesting rides on the platform yet.

    For you, you can post jobs yourself. Go find relevant jobs and add them to your job board. Then you have something to market to jobseekers.

  • travelguy23@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why have you decided to start a job board? What’s the end goal? There are already a ton of job boards. Why do you think we need another one?

    Yes, you should manually add the jobs to begin with. Then advertise the job board on social media and other places.

    I wouldn’t bother contacting companies until you have a lot of traffic. It would be a waste of a companies tie to add jobs if you don’t have traffic.