Should job boards ignore big data?
A long time ago - well, maybe a year or two - big data was being touted as the next big thing. It would 'change the game' for recruiters, it would change the workplace, and provide 'new recruiting insight'. Guess…
Pay for performance: the future, a fad, or something in between?
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about the pay for performance model (PFP) - where employers pay for specific candidate actions (usually clicks), rather than for a job posting. The idea has an intrinsic appeal - after all, who…
What recruiters want: reflections from San Diego
You know it's always sunny in San Diego - except when IAEWS is in town. The sun finally peeked out on Sunday (pun intended) but I suspect the locals were more than happy for some grey and drizzle. Besides, we…
Contests and such: some JobBoardDoctor news
Spring is one of my favorite times of year - most importantly, it signals the end of winter! But it also signals the start of job board conference season - and something special this year: a contest. CareerLeaf and JobBoardDoctor…
Results of the 2015 Job Board Trends Survey are here!
The results of the 2015 Job Board Trends Survey are now available. This survey, a coproduction of IAEWS and JobBoardDoctor, was taken by 197 job board owners, operators, and employees around the globe from November 2014 through January 2015. As…
Overwhelming: more new recruiting (and related) sites!
I admit - even after doing these roundups of new and unusual recruiting-related sites for many years - it's a bit overwhelming. Last time out, I pointed out 8 sites that I thought were pretty interesting. Well, it's barely 3…
Matching for job boards: another view
This week's guest post by Paul Basile on matching for job boards was sparked by my post last week on matching. Paul Basile is CEO of Matchpoint Careers, a matching service that uses psychometrics to help employers hire better candidates…
Matching jobs to candidates: achievable goal or pie in the sky?
For the past two years, we (i.e., anyone going to job board conferences) have known that Elevated Careers, the eHarmony job board, is coming, and that matching jobs to candidates was in the offing. Dr. Steve Carter has given numerous…
Job boards with a twist: what you can learn from Glassdoor and LinkedIn
To listen to some recruiting industry pundits, a job board is a job board is a job board (except, of course, when they're dead). Usually what they mean is a job board = Monster or CareerBuilder; to wit, they only…
Number-fied: what I learned at the JobG8 summit
There is just nothing like late June in Orlando (unless perhaps you prefer mid-July): 95% humidity, temperatures hovering in the low 90s, and drenching thunderstorms with sheet lightning. Oh, and don't forget the tourists! So I was initially not so…