Per the previous post, let's take a look at a few things that can make employers (yes, the folks actually paying) throw up their hands and run screaming from a job board. (Remember, this is just one man's opinion - throw…
If you're looking for work, nothing can make you throw up your hands faster than a job board or company career site that sucks (well, ok, maybe a fight with those idiots handling your health insurance, but we'll save that…
The growth of Twitter (and the hype) continues. Facebook is threatened. Google is threatened. And yes, job boards are threatened. Right? Millions of people are turning to Twitter (and Ning, Facebook, LinkedIn, and others) to find out information about jobs, companies,…
In the everyday bustle of dealing with your employers, it's easy to forget about your resume database. Easy, but not advisable. Long commoditized and scorned by many recruiters because of poor quality and short shelf life, resumes actually provide you…
If you run a job board or career site, you've probably given some thought to what the job board is worth - perhaps because you want to sell, or perhaps because you want to grow. Judging from a recent discussion…
As Al Ries and Jack Trout wrote many years ago in their influential book “Positioning”, “sometimes you can want too much”. If your job board’s audience is everyone, then they’ll probably get…no one. With over 100,000 job boards and career…
"When anyone can start a job board, we’re really in trouble.” – apocryphal A long, long time ago, people found work through quaint methods such as friends, a sign in the window, or a newspaper classified. Those days are, well,…
