FAQs: Let Us Help You Make the Decision

If you need help deciding if Consider Job Boards is a good fit for your firm, read our FAQ below.

What is a Consider Job Board?

Consider automatically discovers and aggregates jobs posted by all your portfolio companies and presents them as a job board on your site. 

Our platform analyzes your set of jobs to enable a search experience designed with the job seekers in mind. Custom designed with your brand guidelines, colors, and fonts, Consider blends seamlessly with your site.

How is Consider Job Boards different from other job board platforms?

We are the only platform that has in-depth filters for things like funding stage and countless skills. Because Consider Job Boards is designed with the job seeker’s experience in mind, the platform is more user-friendly than others, providing a superior job search experience for candidates. With extensive analytics, you can understand what roles and skills are important to your portfolio companies, and their recruiting health over time.

Moreover, Consider is built by experts in web search and machine learning. We are able to analyze every job seeker and job at a very fine-grained level using our extensive knowledge graph and NLP technology. 

How long does it take to launch a job board? What is the commitment to get it set up?

We strive to launch your job board as quickly as possible, typically within 2-3 weeks after you sign up. All we need is a list of companies you want to show jobs for to get started. There’s no additional work for your portfolio companies. 

What features do Consider Job Boards offer?

With Consider Job Boards, every job and every company in your portfolio is accessible to applicants from a central career page on your website. The board aggregates all open roles with your firm’s portfolio companies, giving the companies greater visibility in the job market, and one place for candidates to find open roles with venture-backed startups.

- Continuously monitor and update career pages for portfolio companies.

- Add new companies anytime as new investments are made.

- Promote certain opportunities or companies with prominent positioning and labeling.

- Allow candidates to easily search for roles and startups that meet preferences related to skills, location, company size, and stage.

- Track user activity with your embedded analytics tracker.

How do I get people to come to my job board?

The following are 5 simple strategies we recommend you adopt to drive engagement to your job board:

📱 Amplify on social media. By sharing companies and roles on LinkedIn, as well as other channels.

📝  Write a blog announcing the launch of your job board.

📧  Share the board through email.

🌐  Leverage your network.

👉  Remind team members to use the board as a resource.

Read more on how you can drive traffic to your job board in our blog: How to Promote Your Job Board. 

What can I learn about my portfolio jobs using Consider Analytics?

Our analytics dashboard for job boards shows you details on Users, Sessions, and Page Views. You can also see how users have engaged with a particular company or its jobs. 

Consider provides unique insights into the job creation activity by your companies - job activity and distribution by regions, countries, company size, and more. Knowing the precise job distribution by skills and roles across your portfolio allows you to focus your recruiting efforts better. You can also see the trends in newly opened and closed jobs.

How can I see how my job board is performing? 

Consider Job Boards integrates with your analytics tracking system to give you full visibility into user activity. Read more on how you can track your job board’s traffic in our blog: How to Use Google Analytics for My Job Board.

What is the benefit of a portfolio job board? 

Every job and every company in your portfolio is accessible to applicants from a central career page on your website. The board aggregates all open roles with your firm’s portfolio companies, giving the companies greater visibility in the job market, and one place for candidates to find open roles with venture-backed startups.

What do I have to do to maintain and update the job board? Do I have to add new jobs or companies? 

Consider Job Boards automatically includes and updates open positions from its startups websites or any other job posting site they might use, so there is zero burden on your team to add new jobs or companies.

How much can I customize my job board? 

We are very flexible on customization. We customize your job board’s design to align with your brand.

What is the pricing for Consider Job Boards?

Consider pricing is based on the number of companies you want to show and collect jobs for on your site's Careers page. Consider Job Boards start at $2,550 per year for up to 50 companies. 

Can I just add only certain portfolio companies? 

Yes, you can choose which companies you want to show and collect jobs for. You can select specific opportunities or companies you want to promote as well with prominent positioning and labeling.

Where does the job board live? 

The job board lives on your website’s career page, and because it follows your brand guidelines, using matching colors and fonts, it looks like a part of your site.

Have other questions? We’d love to hear from you. Schedule a time to chat with us here.