How to Build Job Board Website?

• Entrepreneurship
• 06-05-2020

Hence, Job portal website is great startup idea for many entrepreneurs. Let's discuss from where to start? which features should be implemented?, it's technologies, advantage and disadvantage, how much will it cost?. Here we have answers of all your questions:

A) How to Build Job Board Website?

To build unique Job board website first select a niche. As per survey it is revealed that job seekers registers in many different websites and many times they find same job post in various platforms. So better to focus on particular niche (Example: Creative pool, GitHub) as it will be more easy for job seekers. After selecting niche register website name and setting up hosting. Then go for technologies, you can choose either SAAS (software as a service) or Content Management System like WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. If you want to build Job board fast and at an affordable price then go for this content management system. It depend on your budget. If budget and time is not issue then further you can go for custom development where you can have unique design, security and many custom features. If you prefer custom development then find and analysis which will be your key features.

B)Key features of Job Board Website is divided into two parts –

1. Online Job Portal Features -

• Administrator
• Job Seeker
• Job Provider
• Job Search

1. System Users -

• Administrator
• Job Seeker
• Job Provider

1. ADMINISTRATOR FEATURES -

• Administrator can manage whole website:
• Manage complete jobseeker section. Like: activate/deactivate/delete/ edit jobseeker’s information.
• Admin user can view the jobseeker’s applications for each job.
• Manage complete employer section. Admin user can activate/deactivate/delete/ edit company information.
• Manage posted jobs. Like: activate/deactivate/delete/edit posted job.
• Manage whole website content. Dynamic CMS is included to manage the content of the website.
• Admin user can send message to any jobseeker or job provider.
• Admin user can send bulk emails as well.
• Admin user can manage the skills section. Like: Add or remove skills from the website.
• Manage newsletters section
• Manage success stories
• Admin user can manage and handle the prohibited words for whole website.
• Admin user can add/edit countries, cities, salaries range, qualification, institutes, job industries, website ads.

1. JOB PROVIDER / COMPANY FEATURES -

After registration job provider can perform following action:

• Add / Edit Company’s profile
• Post new job vacancies
• Edit / Deactivate posted jobs
• Job provider can see the list of jobseekers who has applied for the job
• Job provider can search jobseekers
• Job provider can see and download the jobseeker’s resume
• Job provider can send message to any job seeker

1. JOB SEEKER FEATURES -

After registration job seeker can perform following actions:

• Search for jobs
• Apply Online for desire job
• Add/Edit profile information including qualification, experience, and skills.
• Build his resume by using CV builder functionality of the website.
• Upload latest resume.

1. MAIN WEBSITE(WEBSITE FONT END) -

From main website, user can perform following actions:

• Search jobs on the basis of skills, cityand country or job title
• Register as a jobseeker or as a job provider
• Login to jobseeker or job provider portal
• About Us
• Contact us
• Recent Jobs

C) Challenges you will face while building Job Board:

1) Candidate mismatch is major problem in the sphere of human resources. Sometime candidate is overqualified or if anyone looks like perfect match then some skills may be missing. If candidates are using right keywords then there will be more chances of shortlist. Although, it is outdated search algorithms. But we can overcome this by using cutting edge technologies like:  artificial intelligence and machine learning. May multinational companies are using this technologies like IBM, Woo.

2) In many Job Boards job seekers face problem of out dated job posts and too much spam. You can overcome this implementing an algorithm that checks date of posting, name of company or a person who has posted, current status of post.

D) How to earn money with Job Board website?

1. Resume Access Fees :

Once you have database of hundreds of job seekers, you can charge to companies for access of resumes.

1. Subscriptions :

An employer can post multiple jobs monthly or yearly subscription fees.

3) Premium features:

This service include of free basic services and charges for advanced features.

4) Listing fees:

An employer pays for the time their vacancy is displayed on website.

It takes time to build customize Job Board website. As it include many procedure like competitor analysis, What audience want, what problem job seekers and employers are facing while using other portals, how to overcome those challenges, then selection of technologies and theme, think through functionality and finally testing. Inculcating the above-mentioned features, you can create your own Job Board Website easily.