Take the job board future survey!
I'm hoping that you'll help me out by taking a short survey on the future of the job board industry. It will take about 4 minutes of your time - and I'll be happy to send you the complete results! It's…
Indeed customer service and job boards: a cautionary tale
Imagine that you're one of the thousands of job boards that provided Indeed with job postings from its inception. Imagine that in addition to providing those jobs (which turned Indeed into the most visited job site on the web), you…
Did LinkedIn hijack the resume database? And what should job boards do?
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…
The danger of ‘big’ – it sometimes goes away
One of the first business lessons regarding big and small that I learned was that it is often better to have many smaller customers than fewer large ones. At the time, I was learning the ropes from a battle-hardened magazine…
A tour of new, unusual, and interesting job sites (that may or may not be job boards)
The times they are a-changin' - and Mr. Zimmerman never even envisioned the internet, much less job sites. One way or another I end up looking at a lot of online recruitment sites - some aimed at employers, some at…
Are you awake? Lots of changes in the online recruiting world!
There is a lot of activity in the online recruiting industry now - more than I've seen in many years. Money is flowing in, startups are blossoming, and established players are branching out. So why now? Part of it stems…
What do job seekers want? (Hint: a job…and a wee bit more)
What do job seekers want? Ahem - to find a job. I might add that's why they network, Tweet, post profiles on LinkedIn, and troll through company career sites. They just want a job. Right? Well, no. Not exactly. Job seekers…
Indeed: the elephant in the room – or just the same old friendly puppy?
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…
Which job board technology is changing the job board industry?
Although job board technology may not always seem important, the job board industry is a technology-driven industry. After all, it was the combination of a database and the web that gave it birth so many years ago. After a fairly…
It’s all mobile: Results from the 2011 mobile recruiting survey
Mobile is omnipresent - at times it seems as though more people are on their mobile devices that actually talking to each other. But what role is mobile playing in recruitment? This was the question I set out to answer…