Hey everyone - I will be hosting a webinar on October 10th at 2 pm EDT / 1 pm CDT. Click here to register.This event, which comes courtesy of RealMatch, examines the current state of mobile recruiting and its implications…
It's been a while since I took a look at how you can screw up your job board, so I thought it was time to revisit the subject of how to not make money with a job board. After all,…
As noted in previous posts, I've been thinking lately about what makes employment sites good - or not. Below are a few questions to that effect - and yes, some employment sites have these features, but most do not. Maybe…
The online recruiting sector continues to change and grow (and sorry, Nick, I don't think it 'sucks wind'). Monster is still up for sale, start ups are sprouting like last spring's vegetable garden, and I'm heading to HR Tech in…
Hey folks - I will be at the HR Tech show in Chicago on Monday, October 8 (yes, as a lowly consultant, I can only afford to give up a day to this). Will I see you? Drop me a…
What is the perfect job board? Talk to job seekers about looking for jobs, and you get an earful. Talk to employers about finding candidates, and you get another earful. Both sides are looking for each other, and both sides…
Running a niche job site is akin to operating a successful retail store - what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. You always have (and always will have) competitors who are bigger and better known than you. Some are…
It's hard to believe that we are in the dog days of summer, at least judging from the number of new job sites I'm seeing. Granted, some of these have been around in alpha or beta for a while, some…
Back in the olden days, a person built a web site, did various things to attract visitors (ads, blimps, billboards, TV - you name it), and then monetized those visitors. The web was all about driving traffic to a web…
So much for the doldrums of summer with regard to job board news. You'd think that record heat, drought, and the impending Olympics would result in a boring news slump for the job board world. You'd be wrong. Let's see…