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May, 2013Big Layoff in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Dunder Mifflin/Sabre Closes
Toby
We pause now, before beginning our workday, before we plunge into this post about Mars and Monster, to pay homage to television’s most real unreality comedy show, The Office.
The show’s finale aired last night, ending nine years of epi...
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May, 2013Are Job Boards Still Relevant for the Future of Recruiting?
Everyone seems to agree that generalist large scale job boards are in trouble, and others are profiting. The decline of the Monster share price to below five dollars, parallel to the success story of LinkedIn stock, and the recent valuation of Indeed.c...
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May, 2013A new resource added to Job Board Doctor
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 th...
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May, 2013What’s happening in the online recruiting world
I got caught up in surveys and what not (What? You haven’t seen the 2013 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:
LinkedIn acquires mobile news r...
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May, 2013LinkedIn Gets Facebookier, Indeed Rejoices
LinkedIn didn’t listen to a word I said.
Jumping onto the resume reinvention bandwagon, LinkedIn introduced ‘visually enhanced” portfolios last week. As the name suggests, LinkedIn users are now empowered to add even more eye-candy t...
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May, 2013Monster Beats Market, Gets Rewarded. LinkedIn Blasts Through and Loses 20 Percent
Shares of LinkedIn and Monster moved in opposite directions today, although both careers sites met or exceeded, or, in the case of LinkedIn, blasted through, Wall Street’s expectations. Monster was up; LinkedIn is sinking.
Both companies reported...
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Apr, 2013What the 2013 Job Board Trends Surveys tell us
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 res...
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Apr, 2013Is the Future of Job Search in Video?
It probably started with the cavemen.
The more visually acute among us were more likely to escape saber-toothed tigers and catch Sunday brunch. Stop signs and help wanted shingles didn’t come along till much later.
In short, we’ve evolved ...
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Apr, 2013Upcoming excitement with the Job Board Doctor
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 resp...
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Apr, 2013Dice’s On Target Q1: A Foreshadowing of Job Board Slowdown?
If Dice Holdings is any kind of bellwether, Q1 is looking like it got off to a slow start for the publicly held job boards. The company reported this morning it earned 12 cents a share on $50.4 million of revenue, which put it mostly in line with what ...
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Apr, 2013Great Places to Work Creating a Career/Culture Info Site
One of the many — and perhaps the best-known — of the many makers of best-workplace lists has created a website for searching for career info.
This one comes from the “Great Place to Work” firm, maker of the Best-Companies-to-Wo...
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Apr, 2013JobScore 2013-04-18 16:04:04
Not that long ago, I used to say, “Unless you’re a sales person or a recruiter, LinkedIn sucks.” I doubt the powers-that-be were listening, but since going IPO, it sure seems like they were.
The first significant move away from being ...
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Apr, 2013Godzilla vs. Mothra: competitive innovation from LinkedIn and CareerBuilder?
It seems that Monster is continuing its long, slow fade as the ‘big dog’ in the job board world (funny how long-term lack of leadership can do that to you). But there are plenty of services vying for the leadership role: Indeed, CareerBuil...
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Apr, 2013JobScore 2013-04-11 18:05:00
There are certain things in life that have become commonplace for everyone’s benefit. Red means stop. The sun sets in the west. The Browns will never win a Super Bowl.
So why companies are still hoping to reinvent the resume is beyond me.
And s...
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Apr, 2013LinkedIn Recruiter Unveils New Look, Candidate Matching Feature
New Recruiter Homepage
Sporting a new look and with some new features — including a recommendation engine that ‘learns’ the kind of people a recruiter most want — LinkedIn Recruiter is getting an official relaunch this morning.
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Apr, 2013Simplicity versus complexity – why the former is always better
Have you tried applying for a job lately? If the employer is of any size, you will probably be directed into an applicant tracking system (ATS), where you will fill out many pages of questions. It can be a time-consuming process – and this is p...
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Apr, 2013The Incredible Shrinking Sales Person
Have you ever heard someone say, “I can’t wait to talk with a sales person today”? Yeah, me neither.
People may love buying stuff, but they sure hate being sold.
I’ve spoken to a number of business owners over the last year or ...
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Apr, 2013Creative Ways to Distribute Your Job Postings
Not everyone can afford (or wants to pay) $300 or more to post a job on one of the premier job boards like LinkedIn, Monster, or CareerBuilder, and few recruiters (outside of agencies) have the time to proactively mine resume databases for talent. Give...
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Apr, 2013Buy or build: what are you gonna do with your job board?
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 ...
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Mar, 2013Source of Hire Report: Referrals, Career Sites, Job Boards Dominate
CareerXroads released its annual source of hire report this week and, as usual, the report is full of information about the broader talent acquisition landscape. We’ll get to that in a moment.
The beginning of this year’s report spells out ...
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Mar, 2013Twitter is a Serious Recruitment Advertising Option
Time to start getting comfortable pimping your stuff in 140 characters or less. With an upgrade to its marketing platform this week, Twitter is now a legitimate advertising medium for employers.
From a recent email,
Great news! Today, we announced ...
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