What do job seekers and music have to do with one another. Well...I recently spent a very pleasant 2 days with my family at an alternative music festival. Apart from hearing some great bands (check out Rev. Peyton's Big Damn…
Inspired by Joel Cheesman's recent foray into newsletters, I've decided to start one myself. Basically, you'll get the world-famous (ok, sort-of semi-famous) Job Board Doctor blog posts - but via email. Some might argue this is a regression. I would…
Monster has made a big splash with BeKnown, its job seeker app for Facebook. It's the latest (and boldest) move into social media for the job board, and I think it has some lessons for all of us. So without…
The Fall ERE conference and the IAEWS Fall meeting are coming, folks - and the Job Board Doctor will be there. I hope you will be, too. If you don't know already, IAEWS is the organization for the job board…
This may be heresy - but sometimes I think more communication in the job board world isn't necessarily better. To wit: here in the U.S. Midwest, we are experiencing - depending on your news source - an unprecedented number of…
The more things change, the more they stay the same - except when they don't. Now how's that for equivocation? The results are in for the 2011 Online Recruiting Survey, and they are intriguing. We had a record 323 completed…
The amazing success (and possible bubble) of LinkedIn's IPO last week got me to thinking about job board revenue models. Almost a year ago I wrote a post about how one makes money with job sites - interestingly enough, it…
Any job board operator will tell you that one of the toughest things about keeping your site running well is ensuring that you have a steady flow of the right kind of candidates. How do you find candidates? And what…
Why a universal login? Well...do you ever feel like your head will burst if you have to create or remember another login/password combo? Sure, your browser tries to help (at least mine does), prompting helpfully to 'remember' the login -…
I'm a great believer in stealing ideas. Think about it: are most successful businesses truly original? Not often - instead, they take an idea and perfect it, then execute skillfully. (This applies to art, music, and literature, too - if…