In this episode of JobBoardGeek, Jeff Dickey-Chasins talks to…himself! Yes, co-host Steven Rothberg is off working (!). Jeff digs into 10 common mistakes that job boards and recruiting sites make. He finds these mistakes tend to occur no matter which niche or geographic location the site operates in – and he offers suggestions on avoiding…
As the omicron wave of the pandemic fades, people are going back to ‘normal life‘: eating out, going to concerts and other gatherings, and yes, returning to work ‘in person’. Many of us are vaccinated, boosted, or double-boosted. Masks are seen less, and markers of pandemic life such as social distancing and barriers are becoming…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Ian Partington of HST Hiring Group about what’s changed – and hasn’t – in the last 20 years of job boards and recruiting. Ian, who previously founded and ran the SimplyJobs group of job boards in the U.K., has seen a lot of changes in the industry, but he also notes…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, host Jeff Dickey-Chasins asks 3 discerning questions of co-host Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter. In return, Steven asks 3 amazing questions of Jeff. They talk of visionaries needing glasses, whether a JobBoardDoctor looks good in a white coat, and contemplate the wisdom of a Blackhawks jersey at a job board trade…
The perfect recruiting tool would not be a job board. It would not be a sourcing tool. It would not be an assessment tool. It would not be a candidate aggregator. It would not a programmatic ad network. It would never introduce bias. However… It would work equally well for recruiting in every location and profession. It would identify candidates based on…
Job boards – like almost all other businesses – have a tendency to look and function a certain way. Call it the default ‘operating mode’. This is partly because of customer expectations (usually set by their experiences with ‘big boards’ such as Indeed or ZipRecruiter). It is sometimes the result of laziness on part of…
