It's that time of the year - leaves are falling, frost is threatening our gardens....and I'm knocking on your door about the online recruiting survey. Despite the Job Board Doctor name, lots of different folks read this blog: HR and…
The more things change, the more they stay the same - except when they don't. Now how's that for equivocation? The results are in for the 2011 Online Recruiting Survey, and they are intriguing. We had a record 323 completed…
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. How do you find candidates? And what…
Why a job board megamix? Well, 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…
What do job seekers want? Ahem - to find a job. I might add that's why they network, Tweet, post profiles on LinkedIn, and troll through company career sites. They just want a job. Right? Well, no. Not exactly. Job seekers…
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…
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…
Is social recruiting a symptom of larger problems in the world of recruitment - or is it a solution to recruitment woes? Let me argue both sides of this question: Symptom: def. "something that indicates the existence of something else"…
In August, I began gathering data for the Job Board Future survey from job seekers, HR professionals, recruiters, and job board employees and operators on the future of job boards and the methods for finding jobs and candidates. Now, 275…
If you follow my Twitter stream, you no doubt noticed I spent last week at #truManchester. It was a great experience - I listened to many recruiters and HR pros talk about how they use social media in their recruiting…