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The power of incremental improvements: LinkedIn shows the way

Although I'm hardly a LinkedIn fan-boy, I've found their strategy since acquisition by Microsoft quite interesting. As many predicted, they've become enmeshed with Microsoft's various enterprise products. But they've also continued to grow their own product via what I call incremental…

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big boys

How to inoculate yourself from the big boys

As long as I've been in this industry, there have been the big boys. The companies that have grabbed attention, market share, and investment. Sites like Monster, OCC, LinkedIn, Indeed,  HotJobs, and CareerBuilder. They sought the #1 position and told…

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what is a job board

The eternal question: what is a job board, really?

What is a job board? Nowadays there are many sites that run from that description - after all, it's quite unfashionable. Yet many HR and recruiting industry professional continue to use the term, so it seems worth exploring (notwithstanding my own moniker!).…

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what employers want

Candidates are what employers want

Since the beginning of the year there have been dozens of recruiting startups, mergers, and acquisitions trying to address what employers want. Google is making a new foray into the jobs world. Indeed is trying to become a brand. Programmatic…

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