Comments on: Job Boards Are Like Kudzu http://www.hrexaminer.com/job-boards-are-like-kudzu Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: StevenRothberg http://www.hrexaminer.com/job-boards-are-like-kudzu/comment-page-1#comment-226 StevenRothberg Wed, 12 May 2010 10:40:55 +0000 http://www.hrexaminer.com/?p=2584#comment-226 One of the scary things that I've learned at the meetings of the International Association of Employment Web Sites (the job board association) meetings is that about 90 percent of tier one and tier two job boards generate about 90 percent of their revenues from the sale of job posting ads and resume searching. Both of those products are in a race to $0. <br><br>Those boards which play ostrich and avoid the realities of what is happening will perish like the vast majority of newspapers. At the end of the day, the job boards which will survive and even thrive will understand that their role isn't to sell postings or resume searching but instead to connect qualified candidates with qualified employers. One of the scary things that I've learned at the meetings of the International Association of Employment Web Sites (the job board association) meetings is that about 90 percent of tier one and tier two job boards generate about 90 percent of their revenues from the sale of job posting ads and resume searching. Both of those products are in a race to $0.

Those boards which play ostrich and avoid the realities of what is happening will perish like the vast majority of newspapers. At the end of the day, the job boards which will survive and even thrive will understand that their role isn't to sell postings or resume searching but instead to connect qualified candidates with qualified employers.

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