The .jobs tax – will you pay it?

April 27, 2010

As a consequence of lending its name to Employ Media for the promotion of .jobs, SHRM has an obligation to prevent .jobs domain auctions or the sale of those domains through the sale of Employ Media itself. It cannot avoid damaging its constituents if it fails to do this.   If SHRM itself were proposing to [...]

How bank fraud hurts job boards

April 2, 2010

I say bank fraud is when your own bank steals from you. What am I talking about? Picture a scam artist somewhere in the Internet underground stealing a credit card in the real world.  He uses this credit card to buy a job posting on your job board. You review all jobs by hand but [...]

The career advice bubble

March 22, 2010

Having seen a few bubbles inflate during my job board career, it’s clear we are in a career advice bubble. I’m sure this one is mostly harmless and won’t send the economy reeling when it pops. In fact, it probably won’t pop until the economy recovers anyway. Still, there are too many new career bloggers [...]

Floating in a sea of garbage

February 16, 2010

I always wondered why Seth Godin did not accept comments on his blog. But, I finally turned off comments on my own blog (not because I’m popular like Seth). Sure, every once in a while there is a gem that makes you smile. But, really folks,  those gems are just floating in a sea of [...]

A true friend is hard to find

January 17, 2010

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. [...]

Job search 2010 — looking 5 years into the future

January 4, 2010

‘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 can video do for you – or NOT do?

December 15, 2009

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 [...]

Honest job ads – THANK YOU Google

December 10, 2009

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! Thanks to CollegeRecruiter.com for catching this.

Employers to go jobboard-free?

November 24, 2009

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 [...]

Job boards with dictionary domain names

November 16, 2009

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?

Rock-bottom

November 1, 2009

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 [...]

InternetRecruiting.us becomes OnlineRecruitingNews.com

October 27, 2009

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 [...]

Resumes.com domain sold for $400,000 in October

October 22, 2009

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 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 [...]

I make mistakes

June 9, 2009

I’m focused, driven, and persistent. I get so focused, I sometimes run out of the house wearing the same color from shoes to cap… I notice but am not easily distracted! Sometimes, I get a haircut a month or more after I need one.  The typical entrepreneur maybe? A friend graciously used the word "passionate". [...]

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 [...]

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