Comments on: Job Boards vs. Social Networking Sites

By: Efajardo

Efajardo — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:21:00 +0000

I’m not really sure where I should be writing this but hopefully, here, would be just acceptable. You see, our company is also venturing to other social media sites for recruiting aside from LinkedIn. We are now trying to use Facebook, Twitter and BlogSpot. We’re still on the stage 1 phase wherein we would want to seek out targeted audiences and get people to follow our sites. We already figured out how to do that with Twitter and right now we would want to increase our Blog followers and FB followers. Any thoughts? Thanks!

By: Krishna Kadiyala

Krishna Kadiyala — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:27:00 +0000

I cant agree more. Social media is another channel to source candidates. Not a replacement for job boards.

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

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By: sleexiawhaxia

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

I’m the only one in this world. Can please someone join me in this life? Or maybe death…

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

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