A job board megamix – Job Board Doctor’s greatest hits
Why a job board megamix? Well, there have been a lot of blog posts here over the years - 120, to be exact. Some faded quickly, and some didn't. So I thought it might be useful to have a roundup…
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…
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…
Is it ever ethical to charge the job seeker?
There has been a spate of articles recently about TheLadders - specifically, how the site is a bad deal for job seekers. To wit: when I see the new commercials for The Ladders, I want to puke on my shoes...the jobs on The…
Job board industry predictions for 2011
Job board industry predictions are a dime a dozen - and if you're lucky, no one goes back at the end of the year to see how accurate your soothsaying actually was. Nevertheless, I like job board industry predictions just…
Top Job Board Doctor blog posts from 2010
Job Board Doctor topped 100 posts this year - and some were more popular than others. I decided to look at this year's blog posts using 3 criteria: the number of comments, the number of page views, and the number…
How do job boards help people?
What was job hunting like before job boards? Well.... You obsessively pored through each line of the newspaper classifieds, looking for something that might match your skills. (You might even do this with multiple newspapers, depending on where you lived.)…