Job boards get a lot of grief online. Candidates, recruiters, and software vendors spend a lot of digital ink tearing into job boards for real and imagined grievances, primarily because they're easy to attack. Afdter all, if you're catching flak, you're usually over the target.
What we know is this - the employment section of the classified ads is still the most profitable division of a newspaper. Monster, Careerbuilder, Dice, HotJobs and all of the new Web2.0 job boards represent a multi-billion dollar industry. And for all the complaints, recruiters inside and outside of corporations use job boards every day to fill positions in just about every profession.
So while trashing a job board may be a great way to get some publicity, the truth is that job boards work better than anything else we have. And while social networks and blogs and podcasts may knock on the door of the hiring manager looking for elite talent, most people are better off with their names visible to recruiters, and that means more postings, more resumes, and more hiring.
So what's our place in all of this? That's the mystery. What do you think the videos are for?
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