I have researched and i still haven't found any job forum or career forum .... i hve seen Job cms portal but Not forums
SEO isn't enough to make your forum No 1. SERP position and your forum's quality are different. Mayn't the user can earn or get any traffic, but you might be able to gain money from your forum's membership services. Personally I have experienced forums are not helpful for traffic now a days. Because in most of the forums, only SEO fellows are the user. We don't have legit users, so we don't get traffic from forums.
maybe your right but i used to run a forum phpbb but it was Movies forum and it worked so well without paying anything to anyone i use to have 150 member each day i run it for 1 year after that it got banned because copyrights and stuff But now i am back maybe with legal rights aha
now days Forums are hard and i wanna lead not follow so i ll do anything it takes for my forum to be number 1
If the forum is big, and targetted to your business, and if you are reputable, it will definitely help your business grow, specially when the forum allows sales thread. So the general perception is not entirely true.
On the plus side, forums are easy to setup. The minus side, as many have said, is the "catch-22" issue. I would not endeavor to create a forum on a topic that already has several leaders, like SEO or Web Traffic, but concentrate on a unique topic. Also, what people have said about forums being de-indexed does not appear entirely true. I have been coming across a lot of forums on the first page of the search results...