How the South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce Turned Their Job Board into a Community Asset
Client: South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Organization Size: ~900 member businesses
A job board that didn’t reflect reality
Like many chambers of commerce, the South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce maintained a job board as a member benefit and community resource.
But the board didn’t reflect the actual number of available jobs in the region.
Despite representing nearly 900 member businesses, the chamber’s job board listed only 20 active jobs.
It’s a challenge familiar to any chamber that hosts its own job board.
Employers didn’t consistently post or update listings
Staff didn’t have capacity to manage job postings
Listings became outdated
Job seekers stopped checking the board
The tool existed, but wasn’t delivering value.
Making the job board useful again without adding overhead
The chamber didn’t need:
Another system to manage
More administrative overhead
A solution that required employers to change behavior
They needed a job board that:
Reflected real local job openings
Stayed current automatically
Lived on their existing website
Didn’t require much in the way of management
Enter Rollie
The South Bend Regional Chamber partnered with Rollie Jobs to modernize its job board experience.
Instead of relying on manual postings, Rollie Jobs was implemented to automatically surface and maintain job listings from local employers, keeping the board accurate without ongoing staff or employer involvement.
Rollie was embedded directly into the chamber’s website, preserving brand consistency and making the job board feel like a natural extension of their digital presence.
From 20 jobs to over 1,000
Using Rollie, the South Bend Regional Chamber was able to discover over 4,000 available jobs at member companies. After enabling geographic constraints that only surfaced jobs within about 50 miles of the city center, they had over 1,000 job listings on their board, representing the true scale of hiring happening within their member base.
Why it worked
The success wasn’t about adding more features, it was about removing friction.
Rollie Jobs worked because it:
Matched how chambers actually operate
Reduced reliance on employer participation
Eliminated ongoing maintenance
Focused on accuracy and relevance
The job board became a powerful community asset rather than a recurring operational burden.
A model other chambers can follow
The South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce’s experience is not unique.
Many chambers face the same challenge:
Strong employer networks
Limited staff capacity
Job boards that fall short of expectations
Rollie Jobs is designed to help chambers bridge that gap by making job boards sustainable, accurate, and useful again.
Interested in seeing what this could look like in your community?
If you’d like to see how Rollie Jobs could support your organization, we’re happy to walk through a live example.
