The Easy Job Boards Blog

We’ve been looking at how our users use Easy Job Boards and think there are improvements we can make to make it even more useful for our users.

The best form of feedback is your feedback. So, we’d love to hear what you’re looking for, what bugs you, and what you’d love to see become part of the service.

We’re passionate about keeping the service simple and easy to use, so if you have ideas or suggestions we’d love to hear from you. You can get in touch with us at our Get Satisfaction page anytime:

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We’re happy to announce that you can now run Google AdSense advertising on your Easy Job Board!

AdSense gives you a simple way to generate advertising revenue from your job board. It’s very simple to configure: just sign in to your job board, navigate to the “Advanced” settings panel in the management section and paste in the JavaScript code you got from Google. Save changes and your board will begin serving ads to your visitors right away!

You can monitor how your AdSense campaign is progressing via your Google AdSense account just as if it was on your own site.

We’re looking for feedback on how you want us to take this feature forward and would love to hear your wants and needs.

If you have tried Easy Job Boards yet, you can get your own job board here.

Presenting information well

Each job listing posted on your job board is an advert designed to grab the attention of people looking for a job. Well presented information – with headings, lists, etc – makes it easier to see what the job is about and whether a candidate fits its requirements. To make your job listings more effective, you need to present the information clearly.

New styled editor

Today we released an update to Easy Job Boards which makes it easier to style job listings for maximum impact. The new editor will be familiar to anyone who uses similar editors in webmail or even a normal word processor. It has buttons along the top to make text bold, italics, etc and add links to other websites. You can also add lists with numbers or bullets.

You can copy styled text from some other applications and paste it in to the editor. Often the styles will be kept, saving you work.

Previously we used Markdown as a way to format job descriptions. The new system is much easier to use and that’s our primary goal for Easy Job Boards! All existing job listings have been automatically migrated, so there’s nothing you need to do.

As always, we’re happy to hear your feedback.

Your own Job Board

If you have tried Easy Job Boards yet, you can get your own job board here. It is easy to use, free to try and currently only $18/month if you decide to subscribe.

Yesterday we put live some new features on Easy Job Boards.

Job Roles

You can now add Roles to your job board so that jobs can be categorised for easy browsing. For example, a job board for restaurant staff could have roles for Chef, Waiter/Waitress, Matra’de, etc.

Easily add roles using the board management interface

Visitors to your job board can filter the available jobs by role and also by contract type – Permanent, Contract, Freelance, Other. For boards with a lot of job listings this makes it much easier for people to find exactly the jobs they are interested in.

Filter by Role and Contract Type to show only matching jobs

Themes and Custom Colours

As well as adding your own logo to your job board, you can now choose some of the colours. We have a few ready made “themes” (or colour schemes) which you can use, or you can choose colours for the background, headings and links, perhaps to match the colours on your main website or logo.

Pick a ready-made theme or choose your own colours

We’ve also made some improvements to the layout of job listings and the management interface. If you haven’t tried Easy Job Boards yet, you can sign up and get our 14-day free trial and take a look for yourself.

We’d love to hear your feedback.

We’re still working hard on getting job categories and custom theming support added, and are making some useful interface tweaks to both the management and public interfaces.

Hopefully, we’ll wrap up development early next week and, after a good bit of testing, push the changes live.

All existing boards (trial or subscription) will automatically be updated to include support for both categories and custom colours, theming and the other tweaks and improvements we have made.

I’ve put up a couple of screenshots to show how the theme and colour support is coming along. As always, we’re keen to hear your feedback.

Basic Theme Support

Custom Colour Selection

A couple of days ago we announced that we’d soon be implementing custom domain functionality in to Easy Job Boards. Well, we quietly introduced the feature last night which means that as well as being able to run your job board on an easyjobboards.com subdomain e.g. myboard.easyjobboards.com, you can now run it on any domain which you own.

So, if you own newyorkaccountancyjobs.com, you can now run your job board directly from that address. Or, if you already have a company website, you can use a jobs subdomain like jobs.mycompany.com. There are only two things you need to do to make it work:

Step 1: Add the domain to your board settings

Log in to your board and go to the settings page. Add your domain name under Advanced Settings.

Simply add your domain name, save and you're all set

Step 2: Change DNS settings

When somebody types in your domain name, it needs to resolve to our server so we can show your job board. You can usually manage DNS settings at your domain registrar (where you registered the domain) or through a third-party DNS hosting company.

The best way is to add an alias or CNAME record which maps your full domain to your boards subdomain on Easy Job Boards. For example, the full domain geekjobs.im is an alias for geekjobs.easyjobboards.com.

Example DNS settings using zoneedit.com

With these changes made, your job board is available to visitors using your own custom domain. The private management interface still uses the subdomain.

Today we’ve made some design and copy changes to Easy Job Boards. We wanted to make it much clearer at a glance that it’s an easy way to start your own job board. Keeping it easy is one of our goals. We want to make it easy for non-technical people to start and run a job board without needing to employ IT guys or developers.

We have also improved the board management interface to make it easier to add job listings and contacts. More improvements are in the pipeline and we’d love to hear your suggestions.