Remember back to the pre-pandemic days – specifically, to 2017? That was the year that Google launched its Google for Jobs initiative. It promised to do for job search what it had previously done for shopping and travel: build a…
Remember back to the pre-pandemic days – specifically, to 2017? That was the year that Google launched its Google for Jobs initiative. It promised to do for job search what it had previously done for shopping and travel: build a…
If you’ve ever tried to help a recent graduate look for work, you probably realized that they had only a vague idea of what the ‘right job’ might look like for them. Over the years I’ve worked with a number…
Over the past several weeks, I’ve proposed a few rules for designing an effective recruiting site or job board: remember that users aren’t rational, and keep the focus on the candidate. Well, now it’s time for the final rule (that’s…
You would think after three decades of web-based recruiting sites that the folks designing these sites would have figured out the basics. You would be wrong. I’ve talked about this before (well, ok, many times) – candidates are the key component…
Back in the early days of job boards – this would the dark ages of the 1990s – everyone put up their own version of what they thought a site should be. There were no dominant visual or functional models,…
When thinking about the coming months (and who isn’t!), I suggest that you keep in mind that job boards – by their nature – are followers, not leaders. We can’t compel employers to hire certain people, or focus on certain types of…
