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Care to share how did you guys get started with a whole bunch of job listings? Contacting tech companies to provide free listings on your job board? Employers actually discovering your site and posting their jobs? Thanks!

I'm currently working on a job board in an entire different niche so I'd really appreciate your comments!

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I used to be a Tech Recruiter so as you can imagine I had quite a few contacts. That coupled with my involvement with Hacker News London, posting a notice on relevant sites like HN & Hackful got us enough jobs to kick the site off.

Also to add to Peroni - you can scrape recruitment sites (monster, gumtree, craigslist), get in touch with the relevant company asking if you can copy the job over to your site.

Most don't mind, and some are even happy if they do get a good applicant through your website instead of wherever they had initially posted their vacancy.

Just make sure there's no effort on their part, nor any hidden fees and they aren't signed up to your newsletter unless they specifically asked to be.

A mixture of scraping and contacts got us around 500 vacancies to launch qreer.com.

Thank you Peroni, DancesDrunk. I did not come from a recruitment background so I'd really appreciate the suggestions.

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