Take the 2014 Job Board Trends Survey!
Hey everyone! Once again, the IAEWS and Job Board Doctor have teamed up for the 2014 Job Board Trends survey - but we need your help to get it off the ground. In addition to the usual valuable info on what job…
Las Vegas, job boards, and more: will I see you at IAEWS?
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…
The results of the 2014 Aggregator Usage study are here!
About a month ago, I asked you to participate in the 2014 Aggregator Usage study. This study asked about how job boards really use aggregators, which ones they actually use, and what their plans were for future use. The response was phenomenal…
Take the 2014 Aggregator Usage Survey!
Almost everyone in the job board industry either uses aggregators - or has in the past. It's just a fact of job board life. But recent developments (LinkedIn and Monster aggregating job postings) and the ascension of Indeed to the…
Deconstruction for fun and profit
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…
What a job board doctor really does
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…
Results of the 2014 Job Board Trends survey are in!
A few months back, almost two hundred job board owners, operators, and employees took the 2014 Job Board Trends survey. This project, a joint effort of IAEWS and Job Board Doctor, focuses on what is really going on in the job board…
Clarify this for me: questions (and more questions) from my recent webinar
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…
Take the 2014 Job Board Trends & Benchmarking Survey!
Hey everyone! It's a new year - and time to see how our industry is doing! 2014 marks the first time the Job Board Doctor survey will be merged with the IAEWS survey. I think that the combination of great…
2013: the job board year in review
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,…