Yogi Berra and job boards
Note: The Doctor is enjoying the U.S. holiday. This piece from 3 years ago is still quite pertinent. Check it out! As famed New York Yankee (and St. Louis native) Yogi Berra once said, “It’s deja vu all over again.”…
Legal changes bring challenges for employers and the job boards they use
If you haven't been marooned on a desert island for the past week, you probably heard about two major legal changes in the U.S. The country's Supreme Court greatly expanded access to handguns in one ruling, and eliminated Federal protection…
Why differentiation is critical for success
Job boards - like almost all other businesses - have a tendency to look and function a certain way. Call it the default 'operating mode'. This is partly because of customer expectations (usually set by their experiences with 'big boards'…
StackOverflow jobs is…over
Well, I missed it. Back in April 2021, StackOverflow announced that it was "moving away from job slots and direct hiring". This was the oldest part of their various revenue streams, and also one of the most successful. Why would…
JobBoardGeek podcast: The pain and joy (?) of coding your own job board
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, Jeff Dickey-Chasins and Steven Rothberg talk to Dom Jackman, of EscapeTheCity, an U.K.-based job board for folks who are trying to 'escape the rat race'. Dom gets into how and why the site got started, and…
What does your content say about your job board?
Job boards have long believed - or were taught to believe by search engines - that job ads were 'their' content. In other words, a job board was nothing without the primal content of job ads. After all, refer to…
DHI did what??? I am so confused…
I used to work for Dice, the primary revenue driver for DHI. It was a long long time ago, and the job board world was very different. So take the following with a grain of salt (as in fact you…
Gentle prods turn into actual sales!
Note: The Doctor is recovering from yet another Memorial Day, so this is some still-timely advice from 2009 (!!) Once, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a job board salesperson called up a prospective employer, made his…
Job seekers are looking…are they seeing your brand?
Think back to when you were young, attending a new school for the first time. Your nerves are on full alert, and you're busy trying to read the new faces - to identify who might be a future friend, and to…
Are destination job boards dead?
Job boards began as digital translations of 'real world' objects: newspaper classifieds. The relatively low cost of entry meant that job boards soon proliferated. And from this crazy-quilt of sites grew the job board advertising wars, promoting destination job boards.…