Comments on: Job Boards vs. Social Networking Sites

By: Recruiting: Social Networking Sites vs Job Boards

Recruiting: Social Networking Sites vs Job Boards — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:46:03 +0000

[...] View the article from Boolean Black Belt by Glen Cathey, Job Boards vs. Social Networking Sites. [...]

By: sleexiawhaxia

sleexiawhaxia — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:50:58 +0000

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By: Martin L. Shoemaker

Martin L. Shoemaker — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:58:29 +0000

If you followed me on twitter (I’m @umlguy), you would lately see me complaining about the functionality of most of the job boards. They’re very poorly implemented, at least from a candidate’s perspective. One is so bad, I’ve stopped trying to apply there. The site is just broken.

And in regards to your point about “stale” resumes: Monster.com insists that my resume was last updated in 2001. I updated it in March of 2009, but they don’t seem to know that.

I agree with a lot of your points here; but I would agree with them more if the job boards worked better.

By: Glenn Gutmacher

Glenn Gutmacher — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:06:13 +0000

Well crafted thoughts, Glen. All the comments on this topic support the value of job boards, so not everyone’s bashing. Indeed, the chance of job boards disappearing as a result of some Web x.0 medium are about as likely as the Internet eliminating TV, TV eliminating radio, radio eliminating newspapers (oops – Rocky Mountain News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, etc., excepted), etc. Loved the “Don’t bother searching LinkedIn – we already have that covered, and we won’t pay a fee for candidates on LinkedIn.” I agree with your prediction but I hope it’s a *long* time from now!

By: Ryan Leary

Ryan Leary — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:20:19 +0000

Outstanding post and great thoughts. It’s truly about diversifying your approach. Job boards are a great source of resumes as are social networks. It’s really about the human touch that will ultimately decipher the candidate to decide weather or not they make it though the process. I recently posted about it at CruiterTalk. As always, great stuff.

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By: Cherne

Cherne — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:54:58 +0000

Glen –

Very interesting and thank you for conducting the poll. I think job seekers today have to use every tool available to them to find their next opportunity. I enjoy reading your posts and your tools for searching the net for talent.

Best –
Chernee

By: LinkedIn Poll: Job Boards More Effective for Getting Jobs | Boolean Black Belt

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:36:12 +0000

[...] this poll certainly doesn’t support your view, and I suggest you read this post on an objective comparison of job boards vs. social networking sites from the perspective of sourcing and [...]

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:32:13 +0000

Great post…
-Andrew

By: Michael Quale

Michael Quale — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:07:48 +0000

This is indeed an great article. I ran across this while googling my own site. I am the founder of jobshouts.com a free board that is growing fast.
We have integrated our services with twitter. We feel that the twitter search engine is ideally suited for a job search. More people are seeing this and grasping the technology.

We feel the job board as we know it, is due for change. We have built a board that will compete with the large boards. but is much simpler to use and did I mention FREE! We are integrated with indeed, and offer premium services as well. We do not collect resumes or any private data other than email.

Our followers can sign up for a profile, then when a job that matches their search criteria is posted, we will SMS their twitter account with a direct message.

Just under a month from launch and over 1000 followers we are growing fast. Great read you have here, will gladly return to see what else you have to say.

Cheers
Michael Quale
jobshouts.com