Job boards began as digital translations of ‘real world’ objects: newspaper classifieds. The relatively low cost of entry meant that job boards soon proliferated. And from this crazy-quilt of sites grew the job board advertising wars. Again, the logic driving…
The pandemic is shaping literally everything we do. Why? Because – unlike any previous catastrophe (well, except for climate change) – it is pervasive. You can’t escape it – not forever. Sure, if you’re lucky, you can bunker off to…
For every industry – including ours – there is ‘common knowledge’. As in: ‘It’s common knowledge that millennials approach work differently’. Or ‘Using direct mail to promote a job board is stupid’. Or ’42 million people will be working in…
Did you hear? SEEK, the Australian job board giant, is moving from a subscription-based revenue model to variable – or surge – pricing. Um…what’s that, you may ask. Well…it is lining up the price for a job ad with the…
How you think about yourself can have a big impact on what you do and how you do it. If you start the day thinking you’re washed up and addled, you will tackle the day’s challenges in a way that…
Many years ago, Lloyd Linn, the then-owner of Dice, told me something that I have never forgotten: “If you don’t have candidates, you won’t have employers.” In other words, without candidates, job boards are worthless.
It is a…
