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Is it time for job boards to get a new name (and is this a dumb question)?

March 12, 2013

Last May I wrote a post about the concept of a ‘job board’, in which I asked the eternal questions, “Is LinkedIn a job board?” and “Is Indeed a job board?” It was one of the more popular posts of the year, with 158 shares (and counting). At the end of the post I considered [...]

The biggest (little-known) benefit of job boards for any employer

March 5, 2013

Job boards have become prisoners of their moniker. After all, a ‘job board’ is just an online bulletin board for ‘posting’ your electronic ‘job ad’, right? Wrong. Job boards (and yes, I think I’m going to write a post pretty soon about alternative names!) began growing past that simple definition by 1999, if not before. Sure, [...]

Thinking about social stuff and job search

February 26, 2013

So perhaps you saw that LinkedIn has updated/upgraded its job search functionality? They sent me an email inviting me to give it a whirl, so I did – and it got me to thinking about social stuff and job search. First, LinkedIn: the job search is nice, and it’s something that they should have done [...]

It’s not too late – take a few minutes for the 2013 Job Board Industry Trends Survey

February 19, 2013

The 2013 Job Board Industry Trends is still open – have you participated yet? You can easily finish the survey in 7 minutes or less. I’ve also created specific versions of the questions for European and UK boards, as well as the rest of us. Finally, I’m also gathering similar data from HR and recruiting professionals, and [...]

What’s interesting, new, and cool: recruitment sites and services for you and me

February 12, 2013

It’s been a while since I looked at the newest crop of recruitment and job board sites, so I thought that we could take a trip down StartUpLane and see what we discover: TalentSprocket: It bills itself as ‘the first machine learning system for erecruiting ‘ – in other words, it tries to automate and improve [...]

Take the 2013 Job Board Industry Trends survey!

February 5, 2013

A lot has happened since the 2012 Job Board survey - Indeed, JobFox, and JobCircle were sold, Facebook (sorta) launched their own job offering, and Monster didn’t sell itself. So it’s time to take the temperature of the industry again – and I need your help. The survey is a bit longer this year, but you can easily [...]

Brand-new News from the Job Board World – LinkedIn, Social Resume, and more

January 29, 2013

Hey, it’s a new year, which means – well, I don’t know! But some stuff did happen in the past 30-40 days, so let’s take a look at how the industry is faring: Quora and LinkedIn integrate: In a StackOverflow-like move, LinkedIn users now have the ability to link their Quora account to their profiles, [...]

How to grow: many paths to job board nirvana

January 22, 2013

Growing any business is an inevitable – and continual – challenge. Somewhere along the line, after the start-up obstacles but before world domination, you are faced with a very simple problem: how can you make this thing bigger, faster, and better? Guess what? Job boards are much like any business – once you push past [...]

What is mobile-friendly – and why should you care?

January 15, 2013

What if you had a service – say, a job board/candidate acquisition/employer service – and no one knew about it? How long do you think you’d stay in business? Countless job boards (and other web-based businesses) disappeared during the past decade because they failed to gain visibility with their prospective clients. In other words, their [...]

The eternal truths of online recruiting – and what they mean for job boards

January 8, 2013

Maybe it come from having been in the industry for a while, but some things just keep recurring: Bill Warren, John Sumser, Joel Cheesman, and job matching sites, to name a few. Seriously, though – although much has changed since the mid 90s, some things really haven’t. Ignore them at your own peril. For instance: [...]

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