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…
Last week I read a post about job hunting tools and how social media killed job boards (yes, again!). Whether or not you agree with the argument (and as you can surmise, I don't), the piece inadvertently brings up a…
One problem with the internet in general and social media in particular is that you have fewer reasons to leave the office. After all, if I'm swapping Tweets with @Animal or @HRMargo all day, do I really want to spend…
Why should you care about mobile apps for job boards? Well, if you're part of the 97% of the US population with a cell phone, you most likely use it for more than phoning. And if you're part of the…
Monster has made a big splash with BeKnown, its job seeker app for Facebook. It's the latest (and boldest) move into social media for the job board, and I think it has some lessons for all of us. So without…
Any job board operator will tell you that one of the toughest things about keeping your site running well is ensuring that you have a steady flow of the right kind of candidates. How do you find candidates? And what…
Why a job board megamix? Well, there have been a lot of blog posts here over the years - 120, to be exact. Some faded quickly, and some didn't. So I thought it might be useful to have a roundup…
There is a lot of activity in the online recruiting industry now - more than I've seen in many years. Money is flowing in, startups are blossoming, and established players are branching out. So why now? Part of it stems…
Mobile is omnipresent - at times it seems as though more people are on their mobile devices that actually talking to each other. But what role is mobile playing in recruitment? This was the question I set out to answer…
A lot of the chatter about social media in our industry has been about how it may displace job boards as a core recruiting tool. Less has been said about how job sites can actually use social media to promote…