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Last week Jakub Zavrel posted a fascinating piece on ERE.net asking the eternal question: Are Job Boards Still Relevant for the Future of Recruiting?  I strongly encourage you to read it (and definitely check out the comments – Steven Rothberg has some pertinent thoughts, too!).

In a nutshell, Zavrel…

One of my goals at Job Board Doctor is to provide resources for job boards. My first attempt was the listing of job board software(which has been updated many times!). I also hope that my blog posts serve this function – at least some of the time.

But I’ve also know that there are many other types…

I got caught up in surveys and what not (What? You haven’t seen the2013 Job Board Trends survey?) and fell a bit behind on the news. So here is the latest and greatest in the far-flung world of online recruiting:…

The results are in from the latest Job Board Trends and Online Recruiting surveys – and they’re interesting. This year 319 job boards, 79 HR and recruiting professionals, and 108 job seekers participated – that’s a lot of responses! It also took a while to gather up the data and put it into report form – but it is now available in the Research area of the…

I wanted to let you know about some exciting things happening here in Job Board Doctor World:

• Next week I will begin releasing the results of this year’s Job Board Industry Trends survey. There was great response – over 300 job board responses worldwide, plus response from HR professionals and job seekers. More similarities between boards around the globe than differences. I look forward to sharing this information with you.
• Also, on…

One of the most common questions I get from startups is whether they should ‘buy or build’ the software for their job board. It’s a question that wasn’t that common 10 years ago – simply because the options for job board software were, well, limited.

Things have changed.

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Things have been happening in our neck of the industry, and it’s about time I ran them down. And yes, theoretically it’s almost spring, although you’d never know it from the snowfall we had today! So with further ado, the news that is:

• Domains never…

Last May I wrote a post about  the concept of a ‘job board’, in which I asked the eternal questions, “Is LinkedIn a job board?” and “Is Indeed a job board?” It was one of the more…

Job boards have become prisoners of their moniker. After all, a ‘job board’ is just an online bulletin board for ‘posting’ your electronic ‘job ad’, right?

Wrong. Job boards (and yes, I think I’m going to write a post pretty soon about alternative names!) began growing past that simple definition by 1999, if not before. Sure, they were places where employers could search candidate resumes (and if it was a niche board, then very…

The 2013 Job Board Industry Trends is still open – have you participated yet?

You can easily finish the survey in 7 minutes or less. I’ve also created specific versions of the questions for European and UK boards, as well as the rest of us. Finally, I’m also gathering similar data from HR and…

It’s been a while since I looked at the newest crop of recruitment and job board sites, so I thought that we could take a trip down StartUpLane and see what we discover:…

A lot has happened since the 2012 Job Board survey - Indeed, JobFox, and JobCircle were sold, Facebook (sorta) launched their own job offering, and …

What if you had a service – say, a job board – and no one knew about it? How long do you think you’d stay in business?

Countless job boards (and other web-based businesses) disappeared during the past decade because they failed to gain visibility with their prospective clients. In other words, their customers didn’t know they were there.

Guess what? It’s happening all over again – except it’s on a new platform:mobile. (Check…

Maybe it come from having been in the industry for a while, but some things just keep recurring: Bill Warren, John Sumser, Joel Cheesman, and job matching sites, to name a few. Seriously, though – although much has changed since the mid 90s, some things really haven’t. Ignore them at your own peril. For instance:

• Resumes rule: Despite repeated attempts to kill, eliminate, or otherwise obliterate them, resumes continue to be the…

Check out the infographic I've created covering the history of the job board world. I think you'll enjoy it.

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Pop quiz: which of the following will increase profitability the most?

• A) Individual job postings and/or resume access
• B) Annual or semi-annual job posting/resume access subscriptions

I’m betting that most of you answered (B).

So why do the vast majority of job sites I visit promote individual job postings and resume access  so heavily?…

For years I’ve been writing about what I see as the evolution of job boards – away from the traditional ‘job postings and resume’ model, and toward something more social, interactive, flexible, and useful to both candidates and employers. Many factors are …

‘Frankenstorm’ is washing ashore, an election is in the offing – yet things keep happening in our industry, too. That’s good, I guess – I wouldn’t want anyone (especially myself)getting bored. So here is my round up of what’s happened over the past month and a half:…

It’s been a busy couple of weeks – first we discovered that Recruit bought Indeed, thenDoostang bought JobFox, and then many of the heavyweights in the online recruiting world rolled into Chicago for …

It’s been a while since I took a look at how you can screw up your job board, so I thought it was time to revisit the subject.  After all, if you’re going to spend time on your site, why not make money instead of losing it?

Most job boards generate revenue from employers (yes, some such as…