Job Boards Are Taking Over The Tech Blog World!
Duncan Riley has a new blog called the Inquisitr and they have just launched a new job board. With this new job board launching it made me sit back and think, why are all these Technology News companies launching crappy job board that are pretty much all from the same 2 or 3 companies? Do they really add anything to the user experience? and more importantly are they being used from a user stand point, while bringing in revenues for a publisher?
Currently, sites like RWW, Gigaom, Techcrunch, Venturebeat, Centernetworks and more.
The companies in which seem to be used all the time are Simply Hired and Personforce. Except for Centernetworks which seems to be built upon a Drupal platform, so they have made the Jobs extension in house.
I just dont get all of these job boards and how companies think they can find the right person by posting on them. Why not just save the money and either place a job advert on Linkedin or even headhunt via Linkedin?
What do you think about the whole Job Board situation!
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Simply hired, Indeed…all these sites are agregators. The others are classified boards. There are a few like Realmatch.com and Jobfox.com that do provide real value to job seekers and employers. The others are crappy.
I just read an article on Venture Beat about a site a new career site that doesnt use resumes but some kind os skill tags. Here’s the article: http://venturebeat.com/2008/05/13/realmatch-offers-a-fresh-take-on-job-sites