The big news in the recruiting world last week was the acquisition of Jobs2Web by SuccessFactors, which had only a few days before been gobbled up by SAP. Why Jobs2Web? Well, I think a part of the decision had to be…
It's that time of the month - time to glance back and see if anything really happened in the past 4 weeks. Surprisingly enough, it did. Here's what I noticed: Monster partners with Ogden Newspapers: Monster adds to its bevy…
Back in the day - say, 3 or 4 years ago - if you were looking for a job, you typically visited big job destination sites like Monster, an aggregator like Indeed, a few niche sites, and a few company sites.…
Only job seekers can kill job boards, right? Not according to yet another 'job boards are dying' blog post. If I had a dollar for every post like this, I'd be a (moderately) rich man. Truly. I try to avoid…
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…
Per this week's Fall 2011 survey results from job boards, we've seen some changes over the past 12 months - not the least of which is increased optimism. Perhaps part of that is based on what HR and recruiting professionals…
Why do you need the Fall 2011 Job Board Industry Survey results? Well, the last few years have not been so wonderful for most of us. A tenacious recession has managed to squash both new entrants and industry stalwarts. And…
Another 30 days, another month of excitement in the online recruiting world! This is the stuff I thought worth noting: CareerBoard has a new director of sales: CareerBoard has appointed Dennis Liniman as their new Director of Sales. He's been…
In the old days - say, 2 or 3 years ago - you had an internal database of candidate resumes that you used for a resume search. Perhaps you paid a job board for its resume search. Or perhaps you…
I've worked with dozens of job boards over the years, and I often take a look at what the job seekers are saying to them. Since the onset of the recession (and honestly, before), it goes something like this: "Why…