Jeff Dickey-Chasins's Blog – December 2010 Archive (4)

How do job boards help people?

What was job hunting like before job boards? Well….

1) You obsessively pored through each line of the newspaper classifieds, looking for something that might match your skills. (You might even do this with multiple newspapers, depending on where you lived.)

2) You walked from office to office, filled out application forms – either for actual jobs, or so that you were ‘on file’.

3) You had special ‘resume paper’ and matching envelopes to send out –… Continue

Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 21, 2010 at 9:16am — No Comments

The year in job boards: 2010 – what we learned

In 2009, the job board industry (and the rest of the world) was deep in the recession’s trough. It was ugly.

With 2010 essentially in the rear view mirror, I think I can safely say that we’re out of the trough. We’re not at the top. We may not even be that far from the bottom – but a lot of things are looking better

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Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 14, 2010 at 9:21am — No Comments

Words matter – for job boards, career sites, and recruiting in general

Every day we are deluged with images, sounds, sights, smells….and…

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Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 8, 2010 at 9:14am — No Comments

All hail the lowly job alert!

Not long after job boards were unleashed on an unsuspecting world, the folks managing these sites noticed an interesting phenomenon: job seekers would spend a considerable…

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Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins on December 1, 2010 at 9:18am — No Comments