Job Boards Revisited 3 (Jan 28, 2009) There are several major variables moving through the job board industry right now Job scrapers (like Indeed and SimplyHired) are rapidly growing into positions of dominance. They are currently 40% of the top five job boards and account for half of the industry’s growth in traffic. Their price [...]
Job Boards Revisited 2 (Jan 27, 2009) The job boards are often maligned, mismanaged and misunderstood. Several recent tidbits create an opportunity for a review. The December Comscore rankings tell a big story. Monster’s database was hacked again. The questions about the value of job boards are increasingly loud (see here and here) This table [...]
Job Boards Revisited 1 (Jan 26, 2009) The Monster database was hacked again. According to a variety of sources (here, here and here), Monster.com posted the warning about the breach on Friday morning and does not plan to send e-mails to users about the issue. The same attacks affected the USA.gov job board as well. [...]
As budgets tighten, companies are beginning to wrestle with standard cost-effectiveness questions. Advertising and advertising-like functions are one of the first places that budget shaving takes root. Since much of Recruiting and Talent acquisition uses an advertising business model (upfront expense, limited quantification of returns), the cost cutter’s eyes are inevitably drawn towards expenses in [...]
(Sep 25, 2008) To wrap this up, let’s explore the idea that a great job board is all in the eye of the beholder. If it gives me more value, of a kind that I want, than I invest, it’s a good thing. If it gives me less value than I invest in it, it’s [...]
(Sep 24, 2008) When I talk to my kids about finding a job, I tell them to avoid using job boards. While job boards can be helpful in a job hunt, it’s easy to fall prey to the belief that they are the only thing you need to do.
(Sep 23, 2008) Jason Davis started a great conversation over on RecruitingBlogs.com. Take a look at "Building a successful Job Board". Like most discussions that try to generalize about a big idea, you run into trouble quickly on this topic. Success is one of those ideas that is entirely in the eye of the beholder. [...]
Thought For The Day: We are in this position as the result of the unintended consequences of some very good intentions. Hcareers Launches Exclusive Partnership With CorVirtusAnother job board/assessment technology arrangement. Assessment is voodoo and doesn’t really work very well without a deep investigation of the actual culture of the company. The market is grasping [...]
In this article (Why Networking is Overrated), Marty Nemko advises job hunters to focus on creating a winning “application” rather than networking for a gig. “If you don’t have a great network and dislike schmoozing, you’ll land a job faster if you devote most of your job search time to writing top-of-the-pile applications for well-suited [...]
This short article gives a great example of a powerful job ad.
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