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Hey folks – I will be presenting at the JobG8 Job Board Summit (June 20-21) in Chicago – but that’s not the only reason you should go! Seriously – they’ve pulled together what promises to be an interesting and informative agenda. Here is some of the stuff I’m looking forward to: A Q&A moderated by Steven Rothberg [...]

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Last week Jakub Zavrel posted a fascinating piece on ERE.net asking the eternal question: Are Job Boards Still Relevant for the Future of Recruiting?  I strongly encourage you to read it (and definitely check out the comments – Steven Rothberg has some pertinent thoughts, too!). In a nutshell, Zavrel discusses the role of search technology with [...]

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A new resource added to Job Board Doctor

by JobBoardDoctor on May 13, 2013

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One of my goals at Job Board Doctor is to provide resources for job boards. My first attempt was the listing of job board software (which has been updated many times!). I also hope that my blog posts serve this function – at least some of the time. But I’ve also know that there are many other types of [...]

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What’s happening in the online recruiting world

by JobBoardDoctor on May 7, 2013

I got caught up in surveys and what not (What? You haven’t seen the 2013 Job Board Trends survey?) and fell a bit behind on the news. So here is the latest and greatest in the far-flung world of online recruiting: LinkedIn acquires mobile news reader: LinkedIn continued its acquisition-oriented spring by purchasing Pulse, a mobile [...]

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What the 2013 Job Board Trends Surveys tell us

by JobBoardDoctor on April 30, 2013

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The results are in from the latest Job Board Trends and Online Recruiting surveys – and they’re interesting. This year 319 job boards, 79 HR and recruiting professionals, and 108 job seekers participated – that’s a lot of responses! It also took a while to gather up the data and put it into report form – but [...]

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Upcoming excitement with the Job Board Doctor

by JobBoardDoctor on April 24, 2013

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I wanted to let you know about some exciting things happening here in Job Board Doctor World: Next week I will begin releasing the results of this year’s Job Board Industry Trends survey. There was great response – over 300 job board responses worldwide, plus response from HR professionals and job seekers. More similarities between [...]

Godzilla vs. Mothra: competitive innovation from LinkedIn and CareerBuilder?

April 16, 2013
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It seems that Monster is continuing its long, slow fade as the ‘big dog’ in the job board world (funny how long-term lack of leadership can do that to you). But there are plenty of services vying for the leadership role: Indeed, CareerBuilder, and LinkedIn come most immediately to mind. Of these, the latter two [...]

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Simplicity versus complexity – why the former is always better

April 9, 2013
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Have you tried applying for a job lately? If the employer is of any size, you will probably be directed into an applicant tracking system (ATS), where you will fill out many pages of questions. It can be a time-consuming process – and this is prior to actually applying for the specific job. It is complex, [...]

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Buy or build: what are you gonna do with your job board?

April 2, 2013
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One of the most common questions I get from startups is whether they should ‘buy or build’ the software for their job board. It’s a question that wasn’t that common 10 years ago – simply because the options for job board software were, well, limited. Things have changed. If you take a glance at my job [...]

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The latest and great news in the job board and online recruiting world: Monster, TheLadders, Gild, and more

March 19, 2013
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Things have been happening in our neck of the industry, and it’s about time I ran them down. And yes, theoretically it’s almost spring, although you’d never know it from the snowfall we had today! So with further ado, the news that is: Domains never sleep: Both CareerBuilder and TaxTalent picked up some new domains [...]

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