I want to get into video but I'm not ready to appear in person yet. Fortunately, my cats are. So move over James Cameron, here's my Avatar. I have to apologize in advance for the lack of violence and mating. Still, I expect millions of views.

This does have something to do with recruiting too. I enjoy the friendships I've made over the years in this industry. I've supported friends and been supported. A couple, I supported knowing it might hurt me a little from a competitive standpoint if they succeeded. They did succeed and their companies are heavyweights today. Being part of that feels good even when my role is infinitesimally small.

'Next' is a fun science fiction movie about a guy who can see just two minutes into the future. But it reminded me of the importance of looking five years into the future. Because seeing the future, changes it. As Abraham Lincoln said "The best way to predict your future is to create it."

Here's what I see coming in the job search business:

I've been thinking a lot about video recently. I want to dip my toe in the water soon. It's a powerful medium and the time is right. I'm not very comfortable in front of the camera so I have a lot of natural resistance to getting started. But, it's good to start crappy and dignity is overrated, so my hats off to all those who've already started. Even to Head2Head.ca for trying with "What can 60 hours do for you?":

A big thanks to the Google team for cleaning house. Do a Google search for jobs, and you will see a remarkable difference compared with results from two years ago. This helps everyone doing honest work in the job search business!

An HR blogger said something interesting in a recent job boards-are-dying type post: "We will be job board free in 2 years." In a follow-up post to explain how this would occur, this anonymous blogger says (problem areas in red):

"When you need something, you go to Google, so why not use it to find a job?  Simply enter your criteria, say sales jobs Chicago, and what you’ll get is a myriad of jobs.  Some will be on the boards (they pay an inordinate amount of dough to get their results listed high on Google), some will be on aggregators, some will be on free sites, and some will be from company sites. The point is, they are all in one place!  No longer do you have to search Monster, and then Hotjobs, and then craigslist.  They are all indexed in one convenient place, your Google search results.

If you could afford a domain name for your job board that contained a single dictionary word, your category keyword or some related keyword, would you do it? These folks did:

• care.com
• caterer.com
• climber.com
• experience.com
• idealist.org

Judging by compete.com traffic graphs, it's a relatively high flying group...

Know of any others?

I want to be useful, truly useful -- but it took a crisis or two for me to figure that out.  Two years ago I hit rock bottom. My health had been in decline for a number of years when I hit a crisis. I needed to be cared for and was virtually useless to my family and company. Often, it was all I could do to get from one hour to the next.

In the past few days I've been remaking InternetRecruiting.us with a new purpose and a new domain at OnlineRecruitingNews.com.

This new site will be a cooperative of 25 dues paying job boards who want to increase their visibility. Whether or not you become one of our managing members, you will still be welcome to maintain your profile and post news there.

It will not be exclusive by category, so it's possible we will have two competing websites as members. I would prefer not to have competitors but this will be run more or less first-come, first-served.

Sedo has sold Resumes.com for $400,000 which makes it one of the 20 highest sales reported so far in 2009.

I started writing about domains in 2006 and since then the value of the right domain to your business has only grown. There is a window of opportunity open now that comes along once in a blue moon. If you came out of this recession with nothing other than a new category-killer domain, over the long run that could make up for all the pain and suffering of the last year.