Smart or desperate moves by X, Glassdoor, and Kununu
So today I present to you what are either smart or desperate moves by X, Glassdoor, and Kununu. Let me preface this by saying that X - Twitter to those of us who have been around more than a week…
The candidate discovery journey drives your growth
A fundamental challenge for our industry is candidate discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job boards - and newspapers before them - tried to solve this problem: they tried to make it easier…
Two job board conferences to increase your learning (and mingling)
Job board conferences are known for networking...and partying. Most of the time, those in our industry are siloed into their own little world, keeping their businesses afloat, and watching the industry from afar. Job board conferences help you bridge the…
The adaptive brilliance of job boards
Well, that's a pushy way to start a post - claiming the adaptive brilliance of job boards! Apart from the assertion, it implies that job boards are still going strong - that they aren't dying, fading, or otherwise disappearing (Indeed's…
Three ‘old’ recruiting ideas that are new again
It often feels that the longer I work in the recruiting industry, the less I see that is truly 'new'. This is neither an unusual or surprising insight, by the way. If you by chance are participating in an industry…
Long COVID and job boards
The world has suffered through the first (and second, and third) wave of COVID. Many people are vaccinated - many more are not. In the U.S. alone, over one million people have died from the virus, and the death toll…
Job board UX: when design creates friction for no good reason
How much do you think about your job board UX? All the time? Or never? In my experience, I’ve found that job board site designers often expect people to act linearly – going from point A to point B, logically and…
Who benefits from pay per application?
In 2023, any employer that is using Indeed (and let's be honest, that's a lot of employers) will be using the pay per application (PPA) model. Why? Because Indeed says so. OK, it's a bit more complex than that, and…
5 things that woodworking taught me about job boards
I've built various items with wood for many years. Tables, benches, cabinets, spoons, stools, chairs - some actually resemble real furniture, others...well, they were interesting to create. Yet, apart from the sheer fun of cutting, chopping, paring, and (occasionally) pounding…
Blabbing and gabbing: the best of the JobBoardGeek podcast (plus something new!)
As you may have noticed, the JobBoardGeek podcast ended a few weeks back - but never fear, the archive lives on! And in a related development, my co-host Steven Rothberg ran off and found a new partner-in-crime, Peter Zollman -…