For the past two years, we (i.e., anyone going to job board conferences) have known that Elevated Careers, the eHarmony job board, is coming, and that matching jobs to candidates was in the offing. Dr. Steve Carter has given numerous…
I personally think the idea of New Year's resolutions are kind of dumb. If you only manage to come up with goals once a year, of course you're going to break them. Behavioral change happens through repetition - daily, weekly,…
Last week I put on my virtual job seeker hat to immerse myself in the current world of searching for work. It kinda sucked. Step 1: I picked a job title that I know fairly well - marketing director. Step…
Remember when LinkedIn used to say it wasn't a job board? Oh, wait - I guess they still do. Yet if you ask a room of HR professionals that question, the answer is crystal clear: "Of course LinkedIn is a…
No matter who your audience is or what sector you serve, you are competing with other businesses and services. Even behemoths like Apple compete with other behemoths like Samsung or Google. It's just a fact of life. But how you compete -…
If you follow my blog, you know that I often complain about applicant tracking systems (ATS) - mostly in relation to what they don't for candidates and how they can hurt job boards (via poor source tracking). But it's a…
At the end of the month, I'll be heading down (over?) to Las Vegas for the Fall 2014 IAEWS meeting. There will be networking, eating and drinking, and a pretty interesting lineup of speakers and topics. Plus, of course, I'll…
Instead of a superlative world, we live in a world of mass appeal: movies that everyone likes, cars that everyone wants, and even smartphones that everyone must simply have (yesterday). Our magazines and pundits worship at the altar of bigness…
Almost every day I read about a new recruiting site or service that has nabbed some VC money. Sometimes it's big ($100M for Thumbtack) and sometimes it's not so big ($2M for for JobR). But in every case, the company…
During my work life, first in the software industry, next in the publishing industry, and finally in online recruiting, I've noticed some ongoing behavioral characteristics that seem to cut across many types of business. For example, there are always the…