Blogs - Job Boarders

Weddles & IAEWS - Conflict of Interest? The International Association of Employment Web Sites

I applaud Peter Weddle for all he has done in this industry but it is bothersome that the same person who issues the largest "catalog of best resources for recruiters and H.R. Professionals" is also the Executive Director of IAEWS. So do you have to be a member of the IAEWS to be listed in the catalog? Does that help? Where does the IAEWS spend it's fees? Do other Industry Assosciations reccomend companies in their own industry? Perhaps. I have never met Peter and this really is not an attack on… Continue

Added by Dean Davis on December 16, 2009 at 3:00pm — 10 Comments

The year in job boards: 2009 – what we learned

It was an ugly, painful year. I haven’t talked to a single job board owner – not one – who saw revenue declines of less than 35 to 70 percent. Many had to lay off employees, cut benefits, or otherwise pull back. They weren’t alone, of course – almost every aspect of our economy (Goldman Sachs excepted) has suffered. So, we’re agreed – 2009 sucked. But surely we learned a few things, right? Hmmm…. 1. Bailouts are for banks, not job boards (unless you’re Monster in… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 16, 2009 at 9:02am — 2 Comments

Job-board theme for tomorrow's ExRecruiter show

Folks, Tomorrow the ExRecruiter Show will focus on "Job Boards - RIP or Raking in the Profits?" - 12 EST. Click here to listen or call in and give your opinions: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/the-ex-recruiter. Yours truly will be a guest, as will Keith Robinson (Site Advisor) and Robin Eads (Job Shouts). Check it out! Jeff Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 14, 2009 at 3:52pm — No Comments

Inside and outside: job boards have to work both places

It’s easy to do: you work and obsess over building the perfect job board, making certain that posting a resume is easier than sneezing – but then you forget about the world outside your site. Or you spend hours on backlinks, blog postings, and email campaigns, only to discover that your site just isn’t that easy to use. Job boards have to function equally well both inside the site and outside the site. As a colleague once said, “You can build the best store in the world, bu… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 9, 2009 at 9:18am — 1 Comment

iHire is acquiring job boards

iHire has been operating job boards for more than ten years and would consider acquiring job boards compatible with its 60 current niche job boards. Please contact David MacFadyen if you are considering selling a job board. david.macfadyen@ihirellc.com Continue

Added by David Jerry MacFadyen on December 3, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

How job seeker behavior affects job boards

As anyone who has tried to lose weight or exercise regularly will attest, changing your behavior is hard. You’re fighting years of mental and physical conditioning – and (unfortunately) many times the old habits win out. That was the challenge that job boards faced in the mid-90s – how to change the ingrained behaviors of job seekers, to move them from searching want ads in the newspapers…to searching want ads online. It took many years, but eventually job seekers did change their habits. The m… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 1, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

Customized Talent Assessments

Just like a fine tailored suit, customization is a new feature that is added to the assessment tool that helps assessments fit to your needs. Our research discovered that companies that were using a generic assessment to test applicants were screening people ineffectively, and they continued recruiting less capabl… Continue

Added by Hassan Rizwan on December 1, 2009 at 4:44am — No Comments

Discussion on job boards (UK)

Bill Boorman a recruiter in the UK has a show on Blogtalk and recently he held a show on jobboards: RIP? You can listen to it here. Its an interesting discussion by the brits.… Continue

Added by Chris Russell on November 30, 2009 at 3:53pm — 1 Comment

Building a open source Job board in (Ruby on Rails)

Hi All We are building a open source job board in Ruby on Rails. We wanna know members thoughts on this kind of job board. Most of the job board We have seen are built using PHP that is a standard for shared hosting enviroment. and Ruby on Rails apps are not friendly with shared hosting environments. We assume most of people use try their job boards first on shared hosting environment. Wanna understand if jobboarders would like to welcome this kind of job board. We need your suggestions.… Continue

Added by nano on November 28, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

What I’m thankful for

In the spirit of the season, I thought it would be worthwhile to give some thanks (sometimes you forget about it in the midst of everything else). So, in no particular order, here are a few things that I’m particularly thankful for this year: * You: Seriously. I appreciate the time you spend reading this blog. I hope you find it worthwhile. * Monster: It’s very useful for our industry to have a ‘big’ company to kick around. Plus it keeps the target off everyone else. * Employer… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 23, 2009 at 4:45pm — No Comments

What do your job board customers want?

When was the last time you asked your job board customers what they want? Not just a one-off question to a few clients – but an systematic, organized survey of everyone who uses your site? Employers and job seekers? A recurrent theme in the ‘job boards are dying’ blog posts that I see is a feeling by recruiters, employers, and job seekers that the ‘big boards’ are out of touch. In other words, they don’t know what their customers want. Now, I’m guessing that they would argue with this assumptio… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 17, 2009 at 9:09am — 2 Comments

Job boards and applicant tracking systems

The appeal of applicant tracking systems (ATS) for employers is obvious: they promise to bring order to the often disordered process of managing job applicants. An ATS can theoretically drive all job applicants into a single pipeline, massage their unruly information into neatly ordered database fields set up exactly as the employer desires, and allow HR to actually manage the interactions with applicants. Sometimes the ATS works well – and sometimes (like all software) it doesn’t. When it work… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on November 10, 2009 at 9:05am — No Comments

Getting a Job Board up and running

Hello, I've found that having a niche board and name that sells itself is critical. Can anyone explain the first few steps however to move from a beta site to a full board, such as what kind of developers and typical cost one should spend? I've seen quotes off market place boards such as Elance for about $4K. The name of my job site is simple and geared specifically at MBAs that want to live and work in major citys. I'm not going to put the name up here, as this blog is for more informational a… Continue

Added by Ben Philip on November 9, 2009 at 6:56pm — 2 Comments

Best Recruiters 2009 in the Security Cleared Marketplace

Best Recruiters of 2009 - More than 5,000 Security Cleared Job Seekers Vote to Recognize Top Recruiting Talent at Cleared Job Fairs for 2009 At each of the Cleared Job Fairs held throughout 2009, participating security cleared job seekers have been given the opportunity to vote for the top recruiting experience. These “Best Recruiter” votes are made by job seekers with security clearances who take the time to assess their experience with recruiting teams of major defense and government c… Continue

Added by Kathleen Smith on November 2, 2009 at 8:58am — No Comments

nt3 Digital Resume Database - Finalist in 2 catagories in the www.smartcompany.com.au 2009 Web Awards

www.nt3.com.au are proud to announce that we have been named runner up in 2 catagories for the 2009 www.smartcompany.com.au Web Awards 2009 Judges The judging panel for the SmartCompany Web Awards 09 contains some of the most exciting… Continue

Added by Andrew Turnbull on October 29, 2009 at 7:01pm — 2 Comments

Job boards as economic indicators

As I was sorting through the usual spate of ‘job boards are dead’ articles, I noticed other more interesting types of articles: pieces that point to job board postings as indicators of the state of the economy. (Monster has published their Employment Index since 2004.) Makes sense, doesn’t it? If job boards are posting more jobs, then… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on October 27, 2009 at 10:31am — No Comments

Job wrapping product for job boards

Job wrapping is a simple solution that job boards can offer to their clients without making any changes to their exisitng architecture or spending a single dollar . Job boards can simply market this product and earn additonal revenue by charging their customer a nominal fee . for more information email me at richard@zycus.com or call 866-208-5594 Continue

Added by Richard on October 27, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Can job boards truly be ‘Web 2.0′?

At their core, most job boards are series of one-way communications: employer posts a job; job seeker responds to employer; employer does (or doesn’t) respond to job seeker. Each communication is distinct and separated by both time and method – some might even say fragmented. Compare to a blog, social networking site, or Twitter: you send out a communication – and built into your communication are methods for readers to respond, as well as the expectation they will; readers DO respond; you resp… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on October 19, 2009 at 9:35am — No Comments

Job Board Software - Best Value for your Money (post your experience)

This is probably the most difficult decision for job boarders, to pick a job board software. There are many out there yet there doesn't seem to be enough information on their pros and cons. Have tried a company in the past but was prone to attacks and had to give up and been wary of trying others... Would like to hear your experiences (good and bad), particularly who are the Best Value Providers of Job Board Software. Appreciate your comments. Continue

Added by Suresh-NicheJobs.com on October 18, 2009 at 6:00pm — 5 Comments

The dangers (and benefits) of backfilling job listings

Once upon a time, if you visited a job board, you knew what you would get: whatever jobs the board had on that day. These were jobs that the board’s sales force had convinced employers to post, on that job board. If you clicked on a job, you went straight to that job posting. And if you applied for it, you did so through that particular job board. Well, those days are long gone. Since the advent of job board aggregators such as Indeed and Simply Hired, it’s become so easy for a job board to ‘ba… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on October 13, 2009 at 9:02am — 5 Comments

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