Once, in a world far, far away (i.e., the 1990s), Monster beat its chest and claimed to be the biggest and best source for online jobs in the world, bar none. Then, last week, Monster - diminished, no longer for…
I'm preparing for a talk at the JobG8 Job Board Summit (June 26-27, Orlando), and it has me thinking a lot about job board evolution. I will be taking a tour of unusual and interesting sites that are moving the…
Is registering job seekers on your site worth doing - or not? And if you do, how hard should it be? Almost every client I've worked with has had to wrestle with registering job seekers. Why? Because as you already…
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…
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…
A large percentage of what is billed as 'new' is actually just repackaged - as we will see in this examination of people aggregation. For example, think about LinkedIn: is it really the first social recruiting site, or simply a…
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…
Since I began working in the job board industry in 1997, I've heard many discussions about pay for performance {PFP} (as opposed to pay to post or pay to access resumes). At one point, CareerBuilder launched a PFP service, but…
It's been a while since I took a look at how you can screw up your job board, so I thought it was time to revisit the subject. After all, if you're going to spend time on your site, why not…
Earlier this year I had the good fortune to attend the JobG8 Job Board Summit for North America. It was an interesting conference, full of useful insights about new and developing technologies, as well as clear-eyed looks at challenges for…