Spring is one of my favorite times of year - most importantly, it signals the end of winter! But it also signals the start of job board conference season - and something special this year: a contest. CareerLeaf and JobBoardDoctor…
The results of the 2015 Job Board Trends Survey are now available. This survey, a coproduction of IAEWS and JobBoardDoctor, was taken by 197 job board owners, operators, and employees around the globe from November 2014 through January 2015. As…
I admit - even after doing these roundups of new and unusual recruiting-related sites for many years - it's a bit overwhelming. Last time out, I pointed out 8 sites that I thought were pretty interesting. Well, it's barely 3…
This week's guest post by Paul Basile on matching for job boards was sparked by my post last week on matching. Paul Basile is CEO of Matchpoint Careers, a matching service that uses psychometrics to help employers hire better candidates.…
For the past two years, we (i.e., anyone going to job board conferences) have known that Elevated Careers, the eHarmony job board, is coming, and that matching jobs to candidates was in the offing. Dr. Steve Carter has given numerous…
To listen to some recruiting industry pundits, a job board is a job board is a job board (except, of course, when they're dead). Usually what they mean is a job board = Monster or CareerBuilder; to wit, they only…
There is just nothing like late June in Orlando (unless perhaps you prefer mid-July): 95% humidity, temperatures hovering in the low 90s, and drenching thunderstorms with sheet lightning. Oh, and don't forget the tourists! So I was initially not so…
Is registering job seekers on your site worth doing - or not? And if you do, how hard should it be? Almost every client I've worked with has had to wrestle with registering job seekers. Why? Because as you already…
Hey folks - I hope you can join me next week for a look at the top trends in online recruiting for 2014 - and how they will affect the job board industry. This webinar (sponsored by Adicio) will cover…
A large percentage of what is billed as 'new' is actually just repackaged - as we will see in this examination of people aggregation. For example, think about LinkedIn: is it really the first social recruiting site, or simply a…