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Job Board Myths and How to Fight Them

How do myths start?

First, something happens – something unusual or notable, something that prompts a person to file it away in their memory. Next, the person tells a story about what happened. Perhaps they exaggerate or embellish – whatever is needed to make it a good story and engage their audience. Perhaps the story is interesting enough that some of the listeners retell it to their friends. Pretty soon, you have a myth. Perhaps it was originally based in reality – but by the time it becomes a myth, its connections with reality can be tenuous. [read article]

5 Problems Even the Best Job Boards Face with Big Data

The best job boards could improve further by selectively harnessing the power of big data. “Big data” is more than just a flavor-of-the-week buzzword; it’s changing how people are hired and assessed. This makes sense in many respects, since relevant data can be analyzed in such a way that it paints an important picture. For example, a few years ago, Microsoft gathered data showing that employees with mentors were less likely to leave their jobs than those without. So Microsoft assigned mentors and reduced job turnover. [read article]

People Aggregation: Buzzword or New Paradigm?

A large percentage of what is billed as ‘new’ is actually just repackaged. For example, think about LinkedIn: is it really the first social recruiting site, or simply a general job board with a (somewhat) visible resume database and a few interactive features? I’d argue the latter.

The latest in ‘new’ is ‘people aggregators‘: services that allow employers and recruiters to search for candidates across multiple ‘open’ (or public) sources. In other words, instead of relying on the names in one’s ATS, a people aggregator lets the employer find candidates wherever they might reveal themselves. What’s more, a people aggregator consolidates the information from multiple sources – so the user doesn’t have to. Good examples of people aggregators: Dice’s OpenWeb, TalentBin (recently purchased by Monster), CareerCloud, RemarkableHire, Gild, and Entelo. [read article]

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    I’ve been doing lots of reading (and re-reading) in preparation for this fall’s workshop on Branding, and it has me thinking about why companies thrive, just get by, or fail. I’ve been personally involved in all three types of businesses – and I have a few thoughts for you to consider.
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  • Job Boards, Aggregators, Recruitment, and Applicant Tracking: The Basics and Blurred Lines

    August 31, 2015

    In recent years, we’ve seen a lot of overlap and blurring of lines between what had previously been distinct needs, functions, and uses. Terms like “recruitment”, “applicant tracking” and “job board” are now—sometimes confusingly—used interchangeably. There’s good reason for this, however, what with all the blurring and overlapping going on. But their nuanced differences can still be very important, and can affect the core of what your organization’s business and technology needs are or may become.
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  • How Job Boards Drive Results in Recruiting & Hiring

    August 31, 2015

    It’s no secret the job market has heated up, and recruiters are evaluating and assessing new as well as tried and true strategies to improve their hiring efforts. The first virtual and online job board was created more than 20 years ago in 1994. The movement from the classified job ads section of the newspaper and the physical “job board” or bulletin board message center to a virtual and online job distribution platform has certainly changed.
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  • Is The Job Description An Endangered Species?

    July 1, 2015

    Several leading business journals have recently declared the job itself, as a vehicle for packaging work, to be on the endangered species list[i]. Commenting on the same phenomenon, Savage describes “the rigor mortis of the industrial era” where the division of work and managerial supervision represented “structured distrust.” As the industrial era is replaced by the knowledge era, he predicts, both jobs and managers will be gone[ii]. Thus, making the need for the position description redundant.
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  • Turning Your Job Board into an Online Community

    July 1, 2015

    Job boards are a tricky business. They have two types of customers, and in many ways they aren’t buying what you offer–they’re buying what they have to offer each other. As a job board owner, you are the facilitator, the venue through which they are able to find each other. You create and maintain a space that attracts both parties.
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  • Modern, curated, and other words we (mis)use

    July 1, 2015

    I am continually amazed by the enduring power of words in our oh-so-modern world (and I say this of course as an unrepentant wordsmith). For example: last week I watched a webinar by GlassDoor in which they talked about ‘traditional job boards’ – i.e., everyone but GlassDoor – and ‘modern job boards’ (yep, that would be GlassDoor). Traditional versus modern. Gee, which one should I pick? What a great piece of reframing, eh? (And I’m not picking on GlassDoor per se, so don’t come after me with pitchforks!).
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  • Job Boards Aren’t Dead, Just Different.

    July 1, 2015

    Innovation and competition have always gone hand in hand, and the recruiting technology industry has historically been no exception to this rule. One has to look no further than only a few years back to see evidence of a trend that, like most history, seems to be repeating itself, as “job boards” rebrand, retool and reinvent their positioning – forgetting that other maxim that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Which might explain why we still suck at candidate experience.
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  • Hubs: job boards with a little bit more

    May 6, 2015

    The ‘traditional’ job board is evolving – but as science tells us, every instance of evolution isn’t always ‘successful’. There are plenty of dead ends in nature – and business. Same in the job board world – often because the sites in question failed to adapt.
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