When was the last time someone asked you, 'Hey, aren't job boards dead already?' For me, it's pretty much every couple of weeks. Really. The question isn't asked in hostility (usually), but in more of a tone of bewilderment. Why?…
As a mentor of mine often told me, 'It's not what they say, it's what they do.' She was trying to help me in my efforts to be a better salesperson - but her observation holds for the job board…
I always smile when I hear a news report about the 'labor market' - as if a thing so vast and and full of complexity could ever be described easily. If you're in our industry, you know that 'unemployment' is…
As with most industries, the recruiting industry is partial to faddish names and acronyms. ATS, PPC, 'talent pipeline', RPO, 'hiring marketplace', PPA, platforms, and so on, and so on. As systems grow in complexity, so do the names describing them…
As we move into Year 2 of the pandemic, some things have changed about the world and the job board market. There is not just one, but multiple vaccines that have been shown to greatly limit death or hospitalization due…
If you've read me for any length of time, you know that I believe job seekers are the driving force for our industry. They are why employers are willing to talk to us and willing to pay us. Their success…
If you've ever tried to help a recent graduate look for work, you probably realized that they had only a vague idea of what the 'right job' might look like for them. Over the years I've worked with a number…
Over the past several weeks, I've proposed a few rules for designing an effective recruiting site or job board: remember that users aren't rational, and keep the focus on the candidate. Well, now it's time for the final rule (that's…
You would think after three decades of web-based recruiting sites that the folks designing these sites would have figured out the basics. You would be wrong. I've talked about this before (well, ok, many times) - candidates are the key component…
Back in the early days of job boards - this would the dark ages of the 1990s - everyone put up their own version of what they thought a site should be. There were no dominant visual or functional models,…