This article How to create a WordPress job posting site is not about creating an entirely new brand to compete with existing popular job portals but works like a job aggregator’s platform from multiple established job portals.
Here we are going to start a website which automatically fetches jobs from popular job portals and display it on your site legally.
Interesting isn’t?. continue reading….
Create a WordPress Job Posting Site
1.You need a domain to start any .com business so we need to first purchase domain either from Godaddy or Hostgator or Bigrock along with hosting package.
Related: List of free web hosting for small business
2.Either you can start this as a blog or exclusive website for job listing.
There are lot of youtube tutorials online to learn WordPress, set it up on your own or hire a professional to set up WordPress.
Related: List of free website builders for small business.
Since the above two points are basic and over discussed on the internet let’s move to the core concept.
3.Here comes the main subject on how to create job posting website.
On your WordPress dashboard go to plugin and click add new
Search for Job board plugin “Indeed Job importer” install and activate on your website.
Go to Indeed job importer on the left-hand side and configure it.
Indeed Job Importer Settings
1) You can give any name to your campaign.
2) You need a publisher id. To create a publisher id just click “Request one” if you have already one just enter your publisher id.
Why you need Publisher id: Publisher id is a unique identification number for publishers who publish indeed content on their blog or website.
Create publisher account
Whenever a job seeker signup or clicks on the indeed job posted on your site you get paid for the referral. So to create a unique link you need a publisher id.
3)Enter the keyword for the jobs to be displayed on your site like Marketing, Business Development, Retail sales, corporate sales.
Based on the given keyword Indeed posts jobs.
4)Select your country of service. Based on your subscription or viewer’s location you can select the country.
If you select India Indeed will post jobs from India only.
5)Select the job type – Full time,part time or contract.
6)Max item import – Fix the number of jobs posts to be published by Indeed everyday.
7)Feed status: Make this active to enable auto blog by indeed.
8)Channel: if you are having more than one website with the same publisher id you can create different links affixing different channel values.
9)Select the category under which the job must be posted.
On socialTalky I am publishing job articles under the category “Career Guidance”.
10)Display template: You can customize the details to be shown in the post like description, state, country, company name etc.,
Once everything is done click save.
Once everything is done successfully Indeed posted 10 new jobs on my blog under “career guidance”.
Jobs posted on SocialTalky.com
As mentioned, you can control the number of posts to be published in a day.
So whenever a user clicks on the job post or signup for Indeed you get an affiliate commission. You can also monetize your blog or website by enrolling AdSense.
Here Indeed is taken as an example other than Indeed you can join Juju, Beyond, CareerBuilder, SimpyHired, Authenticjobs, Adzuna and Career jet .Procedures remain same for all job boards.
While registering for publisher id some job portals will ask for company mail address. If you have the one already signup with it else get a free business email address from Zoho.
Two or more plugins can be activated at the same time to import more jobs from multiple job boards.
A research conducted by Gallup (Management consulting company) revealed that 87% of employees are not satisfied with their present job and always looking for a job change.
So, irrespective of the unemployment rate of a country job aggregator’s business continue to exist.
Hope I made it clear if you have any queries please comment down.
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