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…
Well, I missed it. Back in April 2021, StackOverflow announced that it was “moving away from job slots and direct hiring“. This was the oldest part of their various revenue streams, and also one of the most successful. Why would…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, Jeff Dickey-Chasins and Steven Rothberg talk to Dom Jackman, of EscapeTheCity, an U.K.-based job board for folks who are trying to ‘escape the rat race’. Dom gets into how and why the site got started, and…
Job boards have long believed – or were taught to believe by search engines – that job ads were ‘their’ content. In other words, a job board was nothing without the primal content of job ads. After all, refer to…
I used to work for Dice, the primary revenue driver for DHI. It was a long long time ago, and the job board world was very different. So take the following with a grain of salt (as in fact you…
Note: The Doctor is recovering from yet another Memorial Day, so this is some still-timely advice from 2009 (!!) Once, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a job board salesperson called up a prospective employer, made his…
