Have you ever wondered why job boards fail? Over my many years of consulting with job boards around the world, this is one of the most commonly asked questions. It's usually asked in a very specific way: 'Why did that job board…
The rise of pop psychology, beginning in the 1970s, spawned an endless series of books with titles like "I'm OK, You're OK" and "Emotional Intelligence" that continues to this day. The hallmark of such a book: take a simple psychological…
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…
The recruitment marketing industry encompasses many different types of services: traditional job boards, hybrid job boards, sourcing tools, recruitment platforms, professional networks, career hubs, and much more. What do these all have in common? They are focused on connecting candidates…
For years, job boards have pushed employers to include salary information in their job postings. Why? Research has shown that adding a salary (or salary range) to a posting will increase the job seeker response - and often, the quality…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Roy Baladi of JobsForHumanity. Roy's start as a Wall Street quant gave little hint of his eventual role in founding JobsForHumanity, a network of job boards that target underserved and diverse candidates. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of…
A lot of job board news has happened since the last news roundup! So much for the dog days of summer, eh? Of course, it's not summer everywhere (looking at you, Australia!), so maybe that why things have been lively.…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Brian Forrester of Lumina.co about how his company turns text job ads into videos - at scale. With job ads often running to 300 words or (much) more, candidate engagement can be difficult. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of…