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How To Get More Work Done

Friday, October 21st, 2011

The Problem with Job Boards

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

The Ladders has released a brief new white paper by the Aberdeen Group called Challenges in Sourcing Six-Figure Talent. (It is a .pdf download).

In it, they share their research on how partnering with an online provider to source resumes is more effective than just posting on job boards. It is an interesting read and presents many problems and challenges that still could be solved in the employment vertical space.

Job boards can increase the reach of recruiters and hiring managers into otherwise difficult-to-access talent pools, but 70 percent of survey respondents said that reach can make things worse by delivering unqualified candidates, most of whom are unqualified for the advertised position. In addition, 59 percent said the volume of applicants funneled through job boards strains the resources of hiring companies and recruiters, making them less effective at identifying and vetting candidates who are actually qualified.

Additionally, 61 percent of respondents said they spend too much time looking for the right candidates for these jobs and 45 percent don’t see value in paying for job postings on these sites and job boards.

Read Sharon Florentine’s article here: The Problem with Job Boards.

The Electronic Newspaper

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Wal-Mart Launches Free Classifieds

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Wal-Mart Free Classifieds

Wal-Mart launched free online classifieds powered by Oodle. Huge win for Oodle in the partnerships column!

GateHouse Media video commercial

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

View from my office window

Monday, April 23rd, 2007


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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

In my 13 years of building sites, I don’t think I’ve ever had the time to keep an eye on details to the point where my site validated “green” according to W3C rules.

Throughout today and tomorrow we are converting 174 of our sites to version 2.0 templates in our CMS and the coding for every single page using the new templates is validates XHTML 1.0 Strict!

Great job Nick, Jonathan and Howard!