To listen to some recruiting industry pundits, a job board is a job board is a job board (except, of course, when they're dead). Usually what they mean is a job board = Monster or CareerBuilder; to wit, they only…
The most common mistake I see job board startups make is completely understandable. They spend all of their time and effort thinking about the employer. Why? Because that's (usually) where the money is. They're wrong. If you don't have the…
Almost every week I see a blog post or tweet claiming that job boards are dead or dying. We're talking about the top source for hiring outside of employee referrals here. A tool that almost every employer uses to locate some or all of their job…
Is registering job seekers on your site worth doing - or not? And if you do, how hard should it be? Almost every client I've worked with has had to wrestle with registering job seekers. Why? Because as you already…
A large percentage of what is billed as 'new' is actually just repackaged - as we will see in this examination of people aggregation. For example, think about LinkedIn: is it really the first social recruiting site, or simply a…
A few weeks back I conducted a webinar (courtesy of RealMatch) on what job seekers want and do. Lots of you attended - and there were many more questions than I had time to answer. Jane Serra of RealMatch carefully collected the…
Since I began working in the job board industry in 1997, I've heard many discussions about pay for performance {PFP} (as opposed to pay to post or pay to access resumes). At one point, CareerBuilder launched a PFP service, but…
Hey folks - I will be hosting a webinar on job seeker behavior on Thursday, January 16th, at 2 pm EST / 1 pm CST. I hope you'll join me! Here are some of the topics I'll cover: What do…
It's been a while since I took a look at how you can screw up your job board, so I thought it was time to revisit the subject. After all, if you're going to spend time on your site, why not…
My last post focused on what candidates do when they are looking for work. We asked a wide range of questions in order to get a better picture of how candidates behave 'in the wild', as it were. But this…