Last week I put on my virtual job seeker hat to immerse myself in the current world of searching for work. It kinda sucked. Step 1: I picked a job title that I know fairly well - marketing director. Step…
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…
The most common mistake I see job board startups make is completely understandable. They spend all of their time and effort thinking about the employer. Why? Because that's (usually) where the money is. They're wrong. If you don't have the…
How do job board myths start? First, something happens - something unusual or notable, something that prompts a person to file it away in their memory. Next, the person tells a story about what happened. Perhaps they exaggerate or embellish…
What is a brand? Well, I think (at least in the online recruiting world) we've moved past the original meaning: to burn a mark on an animal. The purpose of this type of branding was to indicate ownership - and…
Hey folks - I hope you can join me next week for a look at the top trends in online recruiting for 2014 - and how they will affect the job board industry. This webinar (sponsored by Adicio) will cover…
Big change is so sudden, which is why I often talk about the evolution of job boards. Remember how LinkedIn came out of nowhere and revolutionized the recruiting industry? Oh right – they started in 2004. Well, how about Indeed…
A few weeks back I conducted a webinar (courtesy of RealMatch) on what job seekers want and do. Lots of you attended - and there were many more questions than I had time to answer. Jane Serra of RealMatch carefully collected the…
By now you've crawled out from the piles of emails and messages accumulated during the holiday break (I hope), so it's a great time to talk about how to buy or sell a job board. As recent headlines have shown,…
Earlier this year I had the good fortune to attend the JobG8 Job Board Summit for North America. It was an interesting conference, full of useful insights about new and developing technologies, as well as clear-eyed looks at challenges for…