The data is still rolling in (and I'm a bit behind), but after 190 (yes, that's right - 190) responses, I believe we have some very good information about the state of the job board industry in 2012. The full…
I will be joining Dr. Charles Handler in a few weeks for a webinar on "Improving Candidate Quality", on Wednesday, March 14th, at 11 am EDT. This webinar is sponsored by JobG8. We'll be talking about why candidate quality is…
(Note: today's guest post is by Dr. Charles Handler, of RocketHire. His firm focuses on employee testing and assessment.) Job boards have served a very important function over the past fifteen years. Try to remember what your job searches were…
Ok, it's been a bit more than a month since the last news round up - I blame it on the holiday season. But now I'm working off those Christmas cookies, so here's all the news that's fit to print,…
In the old days - say, 2 or 3 years ago - you had an internal database of candidate resumes that you mined during a hiring phase. Perhaps you paid a job board to access its resume database. Or perhaps…
I continue to be amazed at the pace of start-ups in the job board sector. No matter that we're in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression; no matter that companies are shedding workers like cat fur…
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. What exactly is the 'right kind of…
There is a lot of activity in the online recruiting industry now - more than I've seen in many years. Money is flowing in, startups are blossoming, and established players are branching out. So why now? Part of it stems…
Predictions are a dime a dozen - and if you're lucky, no one goes back at the end of the year to see how accurate your soothsaying actually was. Nevertheless, I like predictions just as much as the next person;…
Job matching is the AI of the job board world. It's like this: for decades AI has been held out to computer geeks and normal folks alike as something that was 'just around the corner'. Even the definition of AI…