Things have been happening in our neck of the industry, and it's about time I ran them down. And yes, theoretically it's almost spring, although you'd never know it from the snowfall we had today! So with further ado, the…
Last May I wrote a post about the concept of a 'job board', in which I asked the eternal questions, "Is LinkedIn a job board?" and "Is Indeed a job board?" It was one of the more popular posts of…
Job boards have become prisoners of their moniker. After all, a 'job board' is just an online bulletin board for 'posting' your electronic 'job ad', right? Wrong. Job boards (and yes, I think I'm going to write a post pretty soon…
So perhaps you saw that LinkedIn has updated/upgraded its job search functionality? They sent me an email inviting me to give it a whirl, so I did - and it got me to thinking about social stuff and job search.…
The 2013 Job Board Industry Trends is still open - have you participated yet? You can easily finish the survey in 7 minutes or less. I've also created specific versions of the questions for European and UK boards, as well as the…
It's been a while since I looked at the newest crop of recruitment sites, so I thought that we could take a trip down StartUpLane and see what we discover: TalentSprocket: It bills itself as 'the first machine learning system for…
A lot has happened since the 2012 Job Board survey - Indeed, JobFox, and JobCircle were sold, Facebook (sorta) launched their own job offering, and Monster didn't sell itself. So it's time to take the temperature of the industry again -…
Hey, it's a new year, which means - well, I don't know! But some stuff did happen in the past 30-40 days, so let's take a look at how the industry is faring: Quora and LinkedIn integrate: In a StackOverflow-like…
Growing any business is an inevitable - and continual - challenge. Somewhere along the line, after the start-up obstacles but before world domination, you are faced with a very simple problem: how can you make this thing bigger, faster, and…
What if you had a service - say, a job board/candidate acquisition/employer service - and no one knew about it because it wasn't mobile-friendly? How long do you think you'd stay in business? Countless job boards (and other web-based businesses)…