If you’re looking for work, nothing can make you throw up your hands faster than a job board or company career site that sucks (well, ok, maybe a fight with those idiots handling your health insurance, but we’ll save that for another day).
This begs the question: why exactly does a job board suck? What constitutes [...]
The growth of Twitter (and the hype) continues. Facebook is threatened. Google is threatened. And yes, job boards are threatened. Right?
Millions of people are turning to Twitter (and Ning, Facebook, LinkedIn, and others) to find out information about jobs, companies, and other tidbits of data previously the domain of job boards. Recruiters are twittering madly, looking [...]
In the everyday bustle of dealing with your employers, it’s easy to forget about your resume database. Easy, but not advisable. Long commoditized and scorned by many recruiters because of poor quality and short shelf life, resumes actually provide you with the opportunity to truly differentiate yourself from the hundreds – no, thousands – of [...]
If you run a job board or career site, you’ve probably given some thought to what it’s worth – perhaps because you want to sell, or perhaps because you want to grow.
Judging from a recent discussion on JobBoarders, everyone has an opinion. At the end of the day, however, you’re simply attempting to put a [...]
What makes the perfect customer for your job board? Find out.
As Al Ries and Jack Trout wrote many years ago in their influential book “Positioning”, “sometimes you can want too much”. If your job board’s audience is everyone, then they’ll probably get…no one.
With over 100,000 job boards and career sites out there (at least, as of this writing), you are surrounded by competitors. I’m here [...]
“When anyone can start a job board, we’re really in trouble.”
– apocryphal
A long, long time ago, people found work through quaint methods such as friends, a sign in the window, or a newspaper classified. Those days are, well, waning.
In 1995 (or 1994, depending on who the storyteller is), the first web-based job board was [...]
