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All hail the lowly job alert!

Not long after job boards were unleashed on an unsuspecting world, the folks managing these sites noticed an interesting phenomenon: job seekers would spend a considerable amount of time on the site during their first visit - but then very little…

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job site world

Reading tea leaves in the job site world

It's been an interesting several months in the job site world. To wit: Indeed surpasses Monster: Yep, for the first time a job site aggregator's traffic surpassed the 'monster' of our industry. RealMatch lands some serious VC dollars: Remember my…

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social recruiting

Is social recruiting a symptom – or a solution?

Is social recruiting a symptom of larger problems in the world of recruitment - or is it a solution to recruitment woes? Let me argue both sides of this question: Symptom: def. "something that indicates the existence of something else"…

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Android apps for job boards

Ready or not, here comes mobile!

Mobile recruiting is on the rise. It’s been estimated that as much as 40% of the current desktop-based recruitment searching will migrate to mobile devices by 2014. I suspect the change may occur even more quickly – but the end…

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online recruiting

Talking about job boards and online recruiting

There is a lot of great writing out there covering the job board and online recruiting industries - in fact, it's easy to overlook good material. So I've rounded up some of the most interesting pieces from the past months…

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what works

What works in job boards

It's fun bashing job boards (ok, it's fun bashing any category of web sites, but we're talking job boards here). They're like pop music - lots of not-so-good with occasional gems. But how about focusing on the good ones for…

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Too much friction? Not enough?

In my experience, I've found that programmers working on job board site design often expect people to act linearly - going from point A to point B, logically and inexorably marching forward, until they reach their goal. People don't usually…

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