Employment Sites Should Remake Themselves Into “Careersteads”

Since their first appearance in the 1990s, job boards have largely limited the content they offer to job seekers to information about the principles and practices of effective job search. Typically, sites have addressed such topics as effective resume writing, interviewing and, occasionally networking and salary negotiation, but very little else. This content is, of course, clearly helpful to active job seekers. For passive prospects, however, it is neither interesting nor relevant to the way they see themselves in the workplace.
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