Re-posting listings from other sites

[GGG]

Hi, perhaps this is beyond the scope of this community as it seems it’s mostly about the technical aspects of the theme/design, but maybe someone can advise in this area as well…

How have you guys successfully onboarded jobs onto your job board?

When you are first starting the site with no traction/views, do you just email relevant companies and ask them if they’d like to post on your site?

It would be a hard sell at first considering there would be no other jobs or views yet.

Or do you even need permission to post? If a company has made a job posting already, are you allowed to copy that posting onto your site (since it’s only helping them afterall)?

So basically, it would be awesome to hear from others about the business side/legality of getting a job board started.

[serhii]

Hi,

We are not sure whether it’s legal or not to “copy” existing job listings and post them on your website.

However, it’s a common problem for all marketplaces (chicken-egg problem), when website owners have no idea of how to attract customers and vendors.

In your case, it’s probably better to start by contacting companies and publishing their listings for free (because it’s beneficial for them). Once you have a pool of jobs on your website, you can start setting up ads/publishing those jobs on different forums and so on (i.e., attracting job seekers).

In the first stages, you’ll probably have to invest some money in PPC Adc and target advertising to entice some job seekers.

Additionally, you can check this article to avoid some of the mistakes 6 Mistakes to Avoid When Building a WordPress Listing Website | HivePress Blog

[GGG]

Thank you for your response.

I agree, I need to get a pool of jobs on my website first.

Here’s my follow up question:

How to post jobs from dashboard without account?

Obviously the goal is the get companies to create their own account and post jobs themselves. But as my site is brand new with no jobs yet, this is a tough sell. Companies don’t want to post their job on my site if their are no job seekers. And no job seekers will visit my site of there are no jobs!! So I want to get the ball rolling and start uploading jobs myself. I’ll take the job postings from the company’s website or other job boards. But the problem is, if I want to post a job, I hav…

Basically, what I’m asking is, is there a way I can create jobs for the companies? The current setup would require the company to create an account themselves first and then they can make a job post.

I’d rather just make it myself completely, post it on the site for them, and then ask the companies if they are ok with it on my site.

But the problem I’m having now is that I can create new jobs from my dashboard, but it’s all tied to my account. Meaning every job posting will say it’s from my account and have my picture.

It needs to have the correct company and picture before I could post it. Not sure how I can do this without creating a new account for each new company I want to post job about.