job boards

A decade of growth starts today

August 14, 2009

There is something about diversity that makes LatPro as a business track the economy almost perfectly – much better than most other job boards. We started feeling the effects of the recession not when it was announced but rather the moment it actually began and perhaps a full year before other job boards started suffering [...]

Job boards are dying?

August 11, 2009

I would like to add a little bit to the discussion about the future of job boards. As a longtime job board operator, I alternate between being amused by job board bashing and being concerned over the future of our own business.  In addition to running a job board, we also have been in the [...]

Got jobs

July 7, 2009

In 1997 when I launched my first job board, you could put a handful of jobs online, call yourself a job board and attract attention. A lot of things were easier back then – Goto.com traffic cost just pennies and eventually when Google AdWords surfaced, it was dirt cheap also. No longer. As monster.com and [...]

Reciprocal link renaissance

June 29, 2009

I spend the first 45 minutes of every day reading blogs and forum. It’s healthy to read lots of different viewpoints. But, it’s also easy to learn the wrong things from the "experts". Years ago, there seemed to be a consensus that link partnerships no longer worked. As a result, we abandoned the practice. The [...]

Job search engine launched 3 1/2 years later!

June 2, 2009

Today is the day we’re announcing JustJobs.com and it’s precisely three and a half years after the idea was conceived and planning started. That sounds slightly absurd to me but then again, this is a big complex project. There were delays and missteps of all kinds – fortunately, the ones we know about have been [...]

Top 100 job site niches – 2009 methods and observations

May 26, 2009

The 2009 Top 100 US Job Board Niches report lists the 100 most searched for job categories. For each of these employment categories it lists the top ranked job boards according to Google but excludes the following: general-purpose job boards like monster.com subdomain spam from general-purpose job board sites like science.jobs.com (currently dominating the search [...]

Top 100 job site niches – 2009

May 26, 2009

Looking for the 2011 guide to the top 100 US job board niches? This is the 2009 guide. For each top employment category it lists the top 3 or 4 niche job sites. But first, begin with The complete job search guide – how to land a job at a great company and make sure you [...]

In the eye of the hurricane

May 3, 2009

In December, I wrote about the hurricane that would hit the job board industry. Well, the hurricane landed and it’s tearing a path of destruction through the recruiting business. When hurricanes land, there is a lot of hyperactivity when everyone is looking for shelter. We get a flood of partnership proposals that only benefit the [...]

Is offering false hope to the jobless evil?

April 27, 2009

More than a year ago, I wrote about the high level (as much as 50%) of deceptive advertising in Google’s sponsored search results (AdWords) for the search keyword ‘jobs’. I hoped Google would clean up the spam… And why should I care about this? First, Google is slowly teaching everyone that uses the Internet not [...]

Bloggers take on paid job sites

April 7, 2009

Finally.  Some courageous bloggers are shining a light on the dark side of the job search engine business.   There is: RealityBitesBack with PCMag.com Barks Up Wrong Tree Singing Praises of Hound.com and Nick Corcodilos with Droolers, Charles Manson and A. Harrison Barnes Toby Dayton with Stay Away From Sites That Charge A Fee For Recycled [...]

The Authenticity Award

February 3, 2009

The lack of confidence that is behind this historic meltdown is reinforced every time we pay high prices for weak or defective goods and services – and find ourselves without recourse! Everywhere we turn, we find people in positions of power and trust robbing and looting their very constituencies for personal gain. And, the recruiting [...]

Monster.com turning a corner with redesign

January 12, 2009

Congratulations to Monster.com — the site redesign launched a couple days ago is the first move in the right direction that I can remember in 10 years. I don’t typically write about the big three job boards, mostly because I’m not a basher and because I value the role they play in creating an industry [...]

Job board outlook 2009 – the hurricane

December 27, 2008

Here’s what 2009 has in store for job boards – vast change. •    Employers are scaling back their use of job boards.  They aren’t hiring. •    Lots of HR managers will lose their jobs.  But, sometimes that helps down the road when they are rehired in new companies, we gain a new customer. •    Many [...]

When does it make sense to throw hardware at a programming problem?

December 22, 2008

In a chat today, my DiversityJobs.com lead developer showed me this great blog post to make a point: Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive Given the rapid advance of Moore’s Law, when does it make sense to throw hardware at a programming problem? As a general rule, I’d say almost always. Consider the average programmer [...]

More job searches performed on Indeed.com than any other jobs site

November 19, 2008

From the Indeed.com blog: In October, we launched in three more countries: France, Germany and Spain. Indeed’s comprehensive search engine for jobs includes millions of jobs from job boards and company career sites in each of these countries. Since Indeed.com’s launch four years ago in November 2004, we have grown to include jobs from more [...]

Try-everything competition among job boards?

November 7, 2008

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that competition is one of my obsessions…  so, I couldn’t pass up talking about Jason Calacanis’ ideas on the future of the startup. I really like two things Jason says – first he calls this the ‘try everything’ era and truly I believe in [...]

Hispanic and bilingual job fairs – our first video!

October 30, 2008

Yesterday we finished our first video, an in-house production giving jobseekers and employers a first-hand look into what it’s like to attend one of our Hispanic and bilingual job fairs.  This video represents a lot of hard work on the part of many individuals and great teamwork – a big thanks and congratulations to all [...]

Ask not 'What does it mean?'

October 28, 2008

This video is about the exponencial growth of available information in our society and what might happen in the future (thanks Doug).  The video is a 2008 remastered version of the original 2006 presentation by Karl Fisch: So what does it mean? Coincidentally, I also received this today: Iowa Workforce Development Uses Screen-Scraper to Enhance [...]

HotJobs hacked – Yahoo e-mail exposed

October 28, 2008

Hacking is one more pressure bearing down on the big job boards…probably an intense one. If you’re running a small niche board, you’re not much of a target – I’ve written about our struggles with hackers but those have always been directed at our content management system and not our job boards.  From ZDNet.com: Malicious [...]

US internet recruiting directory launch

September 8, 2008

InternetRecruiting.US is a new place to promote your USA job board, ATS or related company – free to join and you are encouraged to post your press releases! Just make sure to use your company logo and not your picture. Yes, it is another ning website.  Can it work like a directory for the Internet [...]

Job board newscast will be a hit

August 19, 2008

It isn’t often in the Internet recruiting and job board news pond that I see something really special. But today, I just listened to something brilliant. Chris Russell founder of JobBoarders.com published a podcast titled Job-search Roundup…  honestly, I expected to listen to a minute of it just to see what he was up to. [...]

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