Earlier this year I had the good fortune to attend the JobG8 Job Board Summit for North America. It was an interesting conference, full of useful insights about new and developing technologies, as well as clear-eyed looks at challenges for…
Hey everyone - I will be conducting a webinar next week (courtesy of Job Board Digest and Madgex) called 'Job Board Judo'. (Ironically enough, I used to do Tae Kwan Do - but that's another story). I will be talking…
Sometimes, a format change is a good thing. At least that's my opinion after having spent the last couple of days at the IAEWS 2013 Fall Congress. Although the IAEWS conference has always been a good source of information and…
The first hints of fall are in the air - unless you live in south Texas or Florida, that is. The world of online recruiting, however, has not taken either a summer or fall break. LinkedIn in particular seems to…
It's summer - hot, sultry, and full of online recruiting activity. Here in Iowa we've gone from spring floods to drought in just 45 days (looks like the floods moved to Missouri). So without further ado, let's see what's been…
The 'traditional' job board is evolving - but as science tells us, every instance of evolution isn't always 'successful'. There have been plenty of dead ends in nature. Same in the job board world - often because the sites in…
The months fly past when you're doctoring job boards - really! It's been 146 days since I last looked at strange, interesting, and unusual online recruiting sites. So it's time for an update. Startups never sleep, as you know! Throng: Apart…
I'll sum up the JobG8 Job Board Summit in a single phrase: 'big picture'. Sure, there were some nuts and bolts sessions and plenty of useful advice (some of which I will pass along), but Kevin Wheeler really set the…
Hey folks - I will be presenting at the JobG8 Job Board Summit (June 20-21) in Chicago - but that's not the only reason you should go! Seriously - they've pulled together what promises to be an interesting and informative agenda. Here…
So perhaps you saw that LinkedIn has updated/upgraded its job search functionality? They sent me an email inviting me to give it a whirl, so I did - and it got me to thinking about social stuff and job search.…