It’s been a while since I’ve talked about whether or not a job board or recruiting site should have a resume database. Originally, almost every job board had resume databases – and they charged employers to access them. Some still do,…
It often feels that the longer I work in the recruiting industry, the less I see that is truly 'new'. This is neither an unusual or surprising insight, by the way. If you by chance are participating in an industry…
It's been a while since I've talked about whether or not a job board or recruiting site should have resumes. Originally, almost every job board had resume databases - and they charged employers to access them. Some still do, in…
Sometimes, a format change is a good thing. At least that's my opinion after having spent the last couple of days at the IAEWS 2013 Fall Congress. Although the IAEWS conference has always been a good source of information and…
In the old days - say, 2 or 3 years ago - you had an internal database of candidate resumes that you used for a resume search. Perhaps you paid a job board for its resume search. Or perhaps you…
Well, folks, it's official - there are now resumes on Indeed - and Indeed is letting anyone and everyone search their resume database. It's free - for now. Sound familiar? It does to me - after all, Indeed used the…
I'm a great believer in stealing ideas. Think about it: are most successful businesses truly original? Not often - instead, they take an idea and perfect it, then execute skillfully. (This applies to art, music, and literature, too - if…
As recently as several years ago, it was considered standard operating procedure for job seekers to post their resumes on as many job boards as possible. Why? Visibility. Employers and recruiters used the job board resume databases to find possible…
Go to any animal shelter and you will usually see pets that simply got too big for their owners - hulking St. Bernards, twelve-foot pythons, walking catfish, and so on. It's easy in hindsight to blame the owners. But the…
Is job seeker registration good or bad? And if you require registration, how much is too much? And...how much value should you attach to these registered users? Personally, I think a little friction is a good thing (as does Seth…