With the advent of sites like Linkedin, Github, Behance and others that contain publicly available profiles, job boards face a conundrum since they typically have private only resume search. But they need to evolve with the times. The trend now is making your job seeker “profiles” open to search engines so candidates can be found. I believe…
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New niche job market: Drones & UAV’s
I read an article recently that predicts the civilian UAV industry is posed to explode in the next few years when the FAA opens up airspace to unmanned aerial vehicles, aka drones. So I see opportunity and just launched two job boards to take advantage of this trend. UAVjobbank.com JobsinDrones.com Each is powered by Jobamatic….
The Recruitment Technology Landscape map
My friends at Headhunter Labs in NYC put together this handy map of the online recruiting industry. Download it here as pdf. Talent Acquisition Technology Ecosystem (.pdf) Use it as a handy guide to see who the players are in all phases of the hiring process from video interviewing to ATS to resume builders. Its…
Whats new in online recruiting
The CareerXroads sources of hire study is out and once again job boards place in the top 3 behind referrals and company career sites. Job board market-share dropped off a little as more and more tools come on the scene to find talent. I didnt see any major trends in the study so its pretty…
Likes on job postings dont work
I have been wondering lately if social share butons on job postings are worth it. So I went to arguably the webs most social savvy audience (Mashable) and took a look at their job board. I clicked through the top few pages of recent listings and most jobs had ZERO likes. A few had 1….
Why doesn’t this niche job board exist? (member only)
I was at a conference recently when another job board owner posed this question to me. Why is there no other site that targets part-time jobs other than Snag-a-Job? Its a good question and one I have been wondering about myself. A few years back I started looking at that space. Here’s what I found….
Questions from a young entrepreneur
I got a nice email from an NYU student about being an entreprenuer. I thought I would share since they were great questions. Q. I’m toying with the idea of quitting grad-school and going full-time on my 4 month old startup..what is your philosophy on the value of education in school vs education via building…
Job boards aint dying
Its time for another one of those posts. Yes every year you see it in the blogs and twittersphere saying that job boards are dead. Phooey! Job boards are alive and well, especially the niche ones. Just look at this recent source of hire study from ATS vendor SilkRoad. For external hires, job boards lead…
Defender of job boards and other musings (audio)
Check out my interview from earlier today on the HR Examiner Radio show with John Sumser. In it you can hear me talk about social, mobile and of course job boards. Listen to internet radio with HRExaminer Radio on Blog Talk Radio
These job board owners pivoted to T-shirts
I ran into this interview with the founders of a site called Jobzle. In it, they detail how they crashed and burned with that site. You’ll hear some valuable lessons about starting an online recruiting business.