I recently had the privilege of hosting #HFChat - the HireFriday Tweet-fest organized by @HRMargo and @CyndyTrivella. Â HireFriday is all about helping job seekers find work. Recruiters, HR professionals, and the occasional job board doctor pose and answer common questions…
Sometimes, job board questions pop up - particularly if you're doing a webinar! A few weeks back I was lucky enough to host a webinar (sponsored by RealMatch). I talked about the various and sundry challenges facing job boards in…
Getting jobs from an employer and onto a job board has been a challenge from the earliest days of the industry. Initially, the only way to do so was manually - the employer filled out a web form and submitted…
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…
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…
I continue to be amazed at the job board variations and the pace of start-ups in the job board sector. No matter that we're in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression; no matter that companies are…
My favorite weather site is WeatherUnderground. For some obscure, probably cookie-driven reason, I tend to see a lot of HR-related ads there. A few SHRM and iCIMS ads, for example. The other day I noticed a corporate blue banner that…
I'm a great believer in stealing ideas. Think about it: are most successful businesses truly original? Not often - instead, they take an idea and perfect it, then execute skillfully. (This applies to art, music, and literature, too - if…
There is a lot of activity in the online recruiting industry now - more than I've seen in many years. Money is flowing in, startups are blossoming, and established players are branching out. So why now? Part of it stems…
Although job board technology may not always seem important, the job board industry is a technology-driven industry. After all, it was the combination of a database and the web that gave it birth so many years ago. After a fairly…