Consider the term 'job board'. For some, it is a term of derision, an insult (as in, "geez, why would you use a job board?"). For others, it is a badge of honor ("we're the biggest job board in the…
There have been a lot of blog posts here over the years - 120, to be exact. Some faded quickly, and some didn't. So I thought it might be useful to have a roundup of what I consider to be…
Imagine that you're one of the thousands of job boards that provided Indeed with job postings from its inception. Imagine that in addition to providing those jobs (which turned Indeed into the most visited job site on the web), you…
Back in the dark ages, when the Job Board Doctor was first learning the mysteries of sales and marketing, he was told that he should "sell benefits, not features." Fast forward, umm...many years. I'm still telling clients (and myself) to…
There has been a spate of articles recently about TheLadders - specifically, how the site is a bad deal for job seekers. To wit: when I see the new commercials for The Ladders, I want to puke on my shoes...the jobs on The…
Job Board Doctor topped 100 posts this year - and some were more popular than others. I decided to look at this year's blog posts using 3 criteria: the number of comments, the number of page views, and the number…
Every day we are deluged with images, sounds, sights, smells....and words. Some lodge in our brains and some don't. If you're in the recruiting biz, your primary tools (at present) are words - spoken or written. Yes, some employment advertising…
A quick heads up - you may be interested in a guest post I did for Felix Wetzel's blog. It's on job board aggregators. In it, I talk about the history of aggregators, some of the competitive issues surrounding their…
(Note: Today's guest post is by Felix Wetzel, Group Marketing Director for Jobsite.co.uk. You can read more at his blog) Job boards are the number 1 channel for finding a job and for finding candidates. The recession has cemented this…
A while back I wrote about some job sites that I thought were 'cool' - in other words, unusual (in a good way), well designed, and ‘of a piece’. I'm always prowling for new ideas and different ways to tackle…