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…
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…
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…
In my recent survey of readers, several asked for more information about what I actually do (other than write these blog posts, I suppose). I do cover a bit of this on the website, but I thought I'd make it more specific. So...what…
Job boards have become prisoners of their moniker. After all, a 'job board' is just an online bulletin board for 'posting' your electronic 'job ad', right? Wrong. Job boards began growing past that simple definition by 1999, if not before. Sure, they…
What is a brand? Well, I think (at least in the online recruiting world) we've moved past the original meaning: to burn a mark on an animal. The purpose of this type of branding was to indicate ownership - and…
So another year has come and gone. Amazingly enough, job boards aren't dead (but if you feel the urge to write about it anyway, here's a handy guide). There's been a surprising amount of activity in this relatively mature industry,…
Hey everyone - I will be conducting a webinar next week (courtesy of Job Board Digest and Madgex) called 'Job Board Judo'. (Ironically enough, I used to do Tae Kwan Do - but that's another story). I will be talking…
Remember 1999? For those of us in online recruiting, it was the year Monster ran an ad during the Superbowl. Overnight the job board went from sort-of well-known to very well known. Part of it was a memorable ad. Part…