In a recent presentation with Dr. Charles Handler, I discovered that although both he and I focused on the 'quality of candidates' - as does anyone involved in recruiting - we weren't able to find much data on exactly which…
Hey folks - I will be conducting a webinar on May 2nd at 11 AM EDT, and I'd like you to attend! I'll be talking about the many challenges facing job boards these days - and what you can do…
It's time to dig into the past month or so and see what interesting, unusual, and mind-blowing things have happened of note in the online recruiting and job board world. Let's see, now.... Jobvite and JobTarget team up: Clients can now…
As I mentioned last week, the results are in from the 2012 Job Board Industry Survey. With over 190 responses from every category of site, including aggregators, general sites, niche boards, and networks, I believe that there is useful information…
The data is still rolling in (and I'm a bit behind), but after 190 (yes, that's right - 190) responses, I believe we have some very good information about the state of the job board industry in 2012. The full…
I don't know if it's inevitable that age and experience brings cynicism, but the ongoing discussion about social recruiting certainly brings out the skeptic in me. Social recruitment is about the 'conversation', the 'engagement', the 'ongoing discussion'. Umm, no. Social…
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler have been conducting the landmark CareerXRoads Source of Hire survey for over a decade. In my mind, that's useful data. They've just come out with the 2012 edition, and it's absolutely worth a look. The…
I was fortunate enough last week to talk with Peter Clayton of Total Picture Radio about my post a few weeks ago. We talked about the non-death of job boards, Monster, LinkedIn, matching, .jobs, and a bunch of other things.…
I'm a very lucky guy. How so? I have the privilege of working with dozens of job boards and recruiting software companies. I'm not locked into a single site or sector - but I am continually focused on the job board…
As another year draws to a close, it's time to take a look back at the year that 2011 was (man, that was truly an awkward construction, eh?). As usual, there was much sturm and drang about social media, the…