If you’re here, that means you’re either in the Job Boards Connect Community, or you want to understand why you should join it!
The Community exists to ensure that when you have a question or need advice or support, you can come to a safe environment and get a quick, credible answer you can trust. Slack is all about instant responses – and sometimes you need just that.
What is Slack?
Slack is a powerful communication platform designed to bring people together and facilitate seamless collaboration within communities, teams, or organisations. It’s like a virtual workspace where members can connect, share ideas, and work on projects effectively.
You can use Slack on your desktop, within the browser or as an App, as well as downloading it onto your mobile device.
Who is the Job Boards Connect Slack Community for?
This community is exclusively for professionals working in the Job Board and Digital Job Advertising industry.
✅ Job Boards (Job Advertising Platforms): Companies that offer a job search to candidates and/or charge employers or recruitment companies to advertise job postings. (Including aggregators, job search engines, and programmatic advertising companies.)
✅ Vendors: Companies that specifically supply products and services to Job Boards or Job Advertising Platforms.
❌ Not for: Recruiters, hiring companies, job seekers or general service providers outside the job board and digital job advertising ecosystem.
How to Join the Job Boards Connect Slack Community
To join the slack community, please complete this form. Please use your company email address. Requests submitted with a personal email address, such as Gmail or Hotmail, cannot be approved. If you want a few tips on how to use Slack please read on.
How we Slack
At Job Boards Connect we do our best to create good communication habits to maximise flow and minimise stress. We’ve highlighted our most important habits below.
1) Find the right channel
Check out all the channels available and join and use the ones most relevant to your conversation. There are two private channels that you can request access to after you join. These are
#just-for-job-boards > As the title suggests… this channel is Just for Job Boards.
#niche-job-boards-only > again, just for Job Boards – but for those with a tight sector or geographic niche.
We keep most channels “public” meaning that anyone in the community can join if they want. We encourage that you try to have as many conversations in public channels as possible so that everyone can be on the same page. If you think others really wouldn’t find any value in the conversation or it’s a particularly sensitive topic, then private messaging is useful.
2) Advertising isn’t appropriate.
You are more than welcome to share recommendations, but please do not promote your own business. Contact louiseg@jobboardsconnect.com if you want to understand what advertising and sponsorship opportunities are available.
3) Always use threads
We treat Slack not like a chat platform but more like a “threaded conversation” platform. Every new post in a channel is considered a different topic from the previous posts. If you are responding to a post, click on the “start a thread” button to respond to that post directly and loop in any other relevant folks into the conversation. This keeps conversations more organised and helps keep the context close.
If you go to Slack’s advanced settings and checkmark “Show send button” it will make it so that you don’t have to worry about hitting send by mistake too early. This also encourages more well thought out long-form responses.
Also use threads in direct messages with people, this makes it very easy to catch up on all conversations you’re in from the “Threads” tab.
As a part of this it’s also important to be mindful of how much space your post takes up
You do not need to use the @ to tag someone in a thread that they’ve already participated in. You could use the @ tag to pull someone into a thread they haven’t interacted in yet
4) Using emoji reactions
We have some favourites and this is what they mean:
Emoji | How it’s used |
| Thank you. I appreciate you. Yea, you’ve done a great job. This is amazing. |
| Thanks a LOT. You are great. Caring. |
| Got it. I understand. |
| I’m looking at this right now. |
| I’m coming back to this later. |
| I totally agree. |
5) Debate, critique and tone
We encourage thoughtful debate and critique – especially around research, products, and practices – as this community thrives on the exchange of ideas. However, we ask that everyone:
- Avoid dismissive phrasing. Instead, explain your perspective and invite further dialogue.
- Aim to build, not block. Even when disagreeing, leave space for others to continue the discussion.
- Assume good intent. We’re all here to learn and grow; phrasing feedback with curiosity helps maintain a constructive environment.
6) Words we don’t use
- “guys” when referring to a group of people of various genders. Instead why not say folks, people, y’all, everyone, etc.
- young, old, elderly, or any other word describing a person’s age
- crazy, insane, or similar words to describe people
- lame, special-ed, or similar disability-idioms to describe people
7) Use of swear words on Slack
While swearing is a natural part of human communication and linguistic self-expression, it’s good to understand that not everyone you work with will be comfortable with profanity (even if it’s not directed at or relevant to them). Use with caution; and/or use **’s to still show your emotion without needing to share the actual word.
We hope this helps create a more calm space to communicate and collaborate. Welcome aboard!
