After a decade-long warm-up -finally -AI is affecting job boards. As I've written earlier this year, generative AI has some obvious use-cases for job boards and ATSs. In fact, if you take a darker view, generative AI may do away…
When thinking about your job board's future, you may be looking at the latest missteps by Indeed and Google's move into recruitment marketing and wonder: what do I do now? I mean, apart from worries about a recession that keeps…
Indeed changed its mind. First it said that its U.S. clients had to convert to the CPA model. Now it says that actually, they can still use CPC (although it has a new name, of course - 'branding'!). So what…
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…
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about whether or not a job board or recruiting site should have a resume database. Originally, almost every job board had resume databases – and they charged employers to access them. Some still do,…
You knew that at some point I would weigh in on ChatGPT and job boards, didn't you? I mean, the topic is just too juicy! As you can probably guess, I'm 'AI-skeptical' and have been for a while; it seems…
No matter how much information you have, it seems like it's never enough. Case in point: remember 2021 and the first half of 2022? Certain industries, such as Big Tech and online retailers, went on hiring sprees. Folks in the…
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…
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…
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…