Jobbex Job Board Software Blog

On October 7th, 2005 the Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued a ruling on regulations that require federal contractors and subcontractors to collect gender, race, and ethnicity information from job applicants. The OFCCP monitors federal contractors to ensure that they provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, gender, color, religion, national origin, disability and veterans' status. According to the OFCCP regulations, the length of time records must be kept depends on the size of the company and the contract it holds. For contractors who has fewer than 150 employees or does not have a Government contract of at least $150,000, the minimum record retention period shall be one year. Contractors with more than 150 employees and a contract of $150,000 are required to maintain the records for a period of two years. The Jobbex Job Board Software OFFCP add-on feature will enable our clients meet the OFCCP requirements by a...

Job boards are increasingly recognizing the value of backfilling their job board results with results from job aggregators and large job boards such as Indeed, SimplyHired, CareerBuilder, and others. The idea is simple. Your job postings appear first, but after that, relevant results are back filled with job postings from the partner you integrate with for the backfill, providing more content for your users. The large job boards and aggregators simply index more jobs than most niche job boards can manually post or even sell, so it makes sense, as a resource to their users to offer as many jobs as possible. For many job board owners, backfilling jobs from another source helps them achieve their goals of providing content to job seekers and helping their job board stay successful. Although job backfill results may look different, depending on the source, they can each help job board owners populate their new or existing job board quickly and easily. Some backfill arrangements provide rev...