The purpose of job board software is to provide an online tool to manage information related to recruiting of new applicants, and organization of pro-active recruiting efforts and communications. These products are ideal for companies wanting to host their own job board, for people wanting to join the online job site industry, for recruiters, and others.
Job board applications are available in a couple of different forms:
- As part of another enterprise or HR package. There are many of these, most of them under the general category of ‘HR software'
- As a stand-alone software package.
- Installed software package
- Web hosted application
Job listing software may include the following features:
Features for job seekers:
- Search jobs by keywords
- Post your resume
- Apply directly by posting resume or online application
- Search jobs by specific employer
- Job inbox – keep track of jobs you're interested in
Features for Employers
- Post jobs
- Set jobs as confidential
- Candidate screening w/ calculated score
- Auto email responder to applicants
- Include Company profile
Features for job board hoster
- Set up as free service, or fee based service
- Site statistics
- Set up accounts
- Control user access
Because of their preponderance and the competitiveness in the market, basic to moderate functions for recruitment software are now very affordable for medium or even small business.
Major entries in the recruiter software market include:
- Jobbex
- Jobdango
- Monster
- PeopleSoft
- Resumate
- Force Finder
- Main Sequence Technologies
In selecting the proper recruitment software for your staffing needs, several factors come into play:
- Stability of organization: Since recruitment is a constant issue, with ever changing needs, you don't want either out of date software
- Interfaces: Are there interfaces built into the software to allow other HR software, business management software or accounting software.
- Ease of use and training
- System resources: Not usually an issue, but sometimes small business environments are on under-powered hardware already.