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…
Are job boards tanking? If you read this blog, then you have at least a passing interest in job boards - so it's likely that you saw the news last week that Monster is laying off 400 employees and missed…
Despite the belief that growth is good, the last 3 years have been full of challenges for companies were simply struggling to survive. So what about companies that are growing? It's been a while since I've written about the challenges…
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…
The best time to think about what to do when job board sales go down...is when job board sales are up. Huh? Consider this: when sales are up, you have better cash flow. You aren't frantically trying to do something…
Let's talk job board disruption this week. Ever wonder how the financial markets might affect your job board? Well, wonder no more - Monster, Dice, and 51Job all experienced double-digit drops in the wake of S&P's downgrade of the U.S.…
The amazing success (and possible bubble) of LinkedIn's IPO last week got me to thinking about job board revenue models. Almost a year ago I wrote a post about how one makes money with job sites - interestingly enough, it…
One of the first business lessons regarding big and small that I learned was that it is often better to have many smaller customers than fewer large ones. At the time, I was learning the ropes from a battle-hardened magazine…
Before job board networks, there was the job board, and the candidates rejoiced. So many jobs! So many locations! So much easier than paper. The employers liked it, too. But after a while, candidates realized that general boards were, well....general.…