Appropriate tech
Speaking of appropriate tech (were we?), have you played Wordle? Oh, why do I ask - of course you have! Everyone I know, from the hippest GenZ to the doddering edge of the Baby Boomers, has managed at least a…
Design fundamentals for job boards: understand the user
Note: This post on design fundamentals for job boards came out a couple of years ago - but it is still quite relevant. Read before you redesign!! Back in the early days of job boards – this would the dark…
JobBoardGeek podcast: Don’t tell your customers how to recruit!
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Ian Partington of HST Hiring Group about what's changed - and hasn't - in the last 20 years of job boards and how to recruit. Ian, who previously founded and ran the SimplyJobs group of…
Steal these ideas!: a job board owner’s toolkit
Why write about a job board owner's toolkit? Well, when you've been writing about job boards and recruiting sites for 13 (!) years, you manage to cover a lot of ground. Sometimes good information gets buried in the past, while…
JobBoardGeek Podcast: A strangely revealing Q&A with Jeff and Steven!
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, host Jeff Dickey-Chasins asks 3 discerning questions of co-host Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter. In return, Steven asks 3 amazing questions of Jeff. They talk of visionaries needing glasses, whether a JobBoardDoctor looks good in a…
JobBoardGeek: Reinvention as a tool for success
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Lee Biggins of CV Library, a fixture on the UK job board scene for decades, about how he has used reinvention to succeed. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter ask…
The perfect recruiting tool
The perfect recruiting tool would not be a job board. It would not be a sourcing tool. It would not be an assessment tool. It would not be a candidate aggregator. It would not a programmatic ad network. It would never introduce bias. However... It…
A hiring lesson from Japan?
Is there a hiring lesson from Japan out there? Well, employers throughout much of the world are facing a hiring problem: they have more jobs than people willing to do them. This problem is nothing new - it existed before…
StackOverflow jobs is…over
Well, I missed it - StackOverflow jobs, that is. Back in April 2021, StackOverflow announced that it was "moving away from job slots and direct hiring". This was the oldest part of their various revenue streams, and also one of…
JobBoardGeek podcast: The pain and joy (?) of coding your own job board
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, Jeff Dickey-Chasins and Steven Rothberg talk to Dom Jackman, of EscapeTheCity, an U.K.-based job board for folks who are trying to 'escape the rat race', about the 'fun' of coding your own job board, among other…