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…
Pop quiz: which of the following will increase profitability the most? A) Individual job postings and/or resume access B) Annual or semi-annual job posting/resume access subscriptions I'm betting that most of you answered (B). So why do the vast majority…
On Friday Dice Holdings announced the purchase of FINS.com, the financial job board that powers WSJ.com and Marketwatch.com. The acquisition got me thinking: why do job boards buy other job boards? Why do they sometimes decide not to buy, but instead create…
A few weeks back I posed the question "What is a job board?". In the process of trying to answer that question, I mentioned LinkedIn as a prime example of something that looks like a job board, acts like a…
Ok, what is a job board? Almost every week I see another blog post or story about a trend, product, or development that will doom job boards. Let's be honest - writing about the death of any institution, especially one…
Hey folks - I will be conducting a webinar on May 2nd at 11 AM EDT, and I'd like you to attend! I'll be talking about the many challenges facing job boards these days - and what you can do…
What's in a name? If you're a job board, a lot. Almost every week I see a blog post or tweet claiming that job boards are dead or dying. We're talking about the top source for hiring outside of employee referrals…
The data is still rolling in (and I'm a bit behind), but after 190 (yes, that's right - 190) responses, I believe we have some very good information about the state of the job board industry in 2012. The full…
I don't know if it's inevitable that age and experience brings cynicism, but the ongoing discussion about social recruiting certainly brings out the skeptic in me. Social recruitment is about the 'conversation', the 'engagement', the 'ongoing discussion'. Umm, no. Social…
Ever wonder about job board competition? Depending on who you talk to, the phase of the moon, and the price of corn in Iowa, there are roughly 50,000 to 100,000 job boards out there. Yes, really. Why so many? There…