I always thought it would be fun to be a personal advice columnist, like 'Dear Abby'. The only problem was, I knew my answers would never get published in a general audience paper. 'Dear Jeff, my significant other is having…
For the past couple of years, I've been keeping a list of job board and recruitment marketing industry 'transactions' - in other words, when companies buy and sell. (And in case you're wondering, I've counted 5 since the beginning of…
If you read a lot of HR blogs and magazines - like I do - you will notice a lot of 'forecasts': '12 key trends in HR for 2017'; '6 technologies that will change recruiting'; and so on. Heck, I've…
That's right, it's Google Jobs again! Last week I walked through the Google Jobs initiative, which is comprised of a specific way of marking up job ads (and letting Google know you did), and the Cloud Jobs API, which addresses…
Remember Google Base? Joel Cheesman does. "The company launched Google Base in the mid-2000s to much fanfare." And...it never went anywhere. Then last year Google announced that they were working with CareerBuilder, Jibe, and Dice on a Jobs API. That…
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…
Today we're going to talk about simplicity versus complexity; as in, have you tried applying for a job lately? If the employer is of any size, you will probably be directed into an applicant tracking system (ATS), where you will…
As noted in previous posts, I've been thinking lately about what makes employment sites good - or not. Below are a few questions to that effect - and yes, some employment sites have these features, but most do not. Maybe…
In my experience, I've found that programmers working on job board site design often expect people to act linearly - going from point A to point B, logically and inexorably marching forward, until they reach their goal. People don't usually…
The appeal of applicant tracking systems (ATS) for employers is obvious: they promise to bring order to the often disordered process of managing job applicants. An ATS can theoretically drive all job applicants into a single pipeline, massage their unruly…