Note: This post originally appeared last year. The Job Board Doctor is out, but will be back next week with something new!
Pop quiz: which of the following will increase profitability the most?

A) Individual job postings and/or resume access
B) Annu...

I said I would be more prompt about my periodic roundups of new  and unusual employment sites – and for once, I am! This time we’re going to look at a special sub-set of site – hubs. I’ve talked about these sites before &#821...

JobDiva, software provider to the staffing industry, has filed a federal suit against Monster Worldwide, claiming the technology behind the company’s popular 6Sense search and matching engine infringes on patents it holds.
The complaint alleges &...

LinkedIn introduces a new feature today that will be welcomed by businesses with multiple brands, locations, and product lines. Three years after launching company pages, LinkedIn has now made it possible to add multiple subsections to these pages.
Alt...

My last post focused on what candidates do when they are looking for work. We asked a wide range of questions in order to get a better picture of how candidates behave ‘in the wild’, as it were. But this survey also brings up another subje...

Hey everyone – I will be conducting a webinar next week (courtesy of Job Board Digest and Madgex) called ‘Job Board Judo‘. (Ironically enough, I used to do Tae Kwan Do – but that’s another story). I will be talking about ...

There’s a new job board for the manufacturing industry, which has a skills shortage of its own.
ThomasNet Jobs is aimed at engineering, procurement, manufacturing/production operations, and industrial sales/marketing.

What happens when you ask 1,276 job seekers how they really look for work? You get some pretty interesting answers.
Earlier this fall, I collaborated with Job-Hunt.org (a career resource and advice site) and eHarmony (a dating site planning to enter...

Companies looking for remote workers have a new site: “We Work Remotely.”
The folks behind the job board also have a book out called “Remote: Office Not Required,” which they’re advertising at the top and bottom of the sit...

Broadening its reach in healthcare and gaining a foothold in the hospitality job market, Dice Holdings today announced it acquired OnTargetJobs.
The $50 million acquisition adds three key niche sites — Biospace (life sciences), HEALTHeCAREERS (h...

For the first time in a while, the Monster had good financial news to report this morning. Not only did it swing to a profit in the third quarter, but it earned more per share than the analysts were predicting.
The global careers company reported earni...

I’ve almost recovered from the IAEWS fall congress – but in about 4 weeks I will be attending the JobG8 Europe Job Board Summit in London (Dec. 4-5). Actually, ‘attending’ isn’t quite right – I will be presenting so...

LinkedIn lost money in the third quarter, yet on an adjusted basis, it again soared past what the financial markets were predicting, earning 39 cents a share on revenue of $393 million. But what it said about the future sent its after-hours stock price...

Dice Holdings, parent company of the tech career site Dice.com, took a big hit today after its third-quarter financial performance missed Wall Street’s expectations on both per share earnings and revenue.
The stock was down 15.6 percent at one po...

It’s that time to take a look at what’s been happening in the job board industry over the past month. All I can say is – more than you might imagine. So let’s get started:

Dice’s ex-CEO sells stock: Dice Holdings ex-CEO...

Remember 1999? For those of us in online recruiting, it was the year Monster ran an ad during the Superbowl. Overnight the job board went from sort-of well-known to very well known. Part of it was a memorable ad. Part of it was the venue. And part of ...

Dice unveiled a new interface for recruiters this morning that streamlines the way candidate profiles are presented, adds some extra bits of data about them, and, in a handy pulldown, provides a variety of ways of contacting the candidate.
Ordinarily t...

Sometimes, a format change is a good thing. At least that’s my opinion after having spent the last couple of days at the IAEWS 2013 Fall Congress.
Although the IAEWS conference has always been a good source of information and networking, in past...

A new work-focused Internet domain — .career — will join the eight-year-old .jobs address next year.
The .career extension is among hundreds of new generic top-level domains (extensions similar to .com, .net, etc.) that will become availabl...

I’ve talked before about how job boards are evolving to meet the changing needs of both employers and candidates. I’ve also talked about how some boards are simply stuck in the past. But I haven’t talked as much about the disconnect...