It’s been a challenging few years, hasn’t it? First a worldwide pandemic, which in turn caused an economic crash, which was followed by an economic boom, which fueled an already-existing labor crunch. The shortage of workers (or workers with the wrong skills? in the wrong place?) led to a big, big boom for job boards…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter talk about a key element of almost any job board or recruiting site – backfill. We discuss the 4 most common types of backfill, the pros and cons of each, and how backfill can help a newly hatched job board get off…
Now and in the years to come, gray is the color that will help companies cope with filling open positions left vacant recently. Meet the gray collar workers.
Another good one from the archive – enjoy! A couple of times a year I do a guest lecture in a college class at my alma mater that focuses on creative and non-traditional careers. It’s always interesting because it puts me in direct contact with some very smart soon-to-be college grads – who usually don’t have a clue about finding…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Andy Hibel of HigherEdJobs, the leading job board for careers in academia. Andy talks about how HigherEdJobs got started – including a number of revenue-free years. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter learn about the role that annual subscriptions have played in both satisfying employers and helping the…
Lyz Lenz, a very good Iowa-based writer (check out her newsletter) recently tweeted: “I told the liquor store guy about a drink I made with this gin he sold me and he was like, “Congratulations you invented a Tom Collins.”. Sometimes I feel like the guy at the liquor store. At least once a month…
