Comments on: ‘millennials don’t go to job boards’

By: Chimbles

Chimbles — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:23:32 +0000

This is quite interesting actually. The job boards unfortunately became spam central. And, I don’t mean that if you list your resume, you will necessarily get the enlarge your manhood e-mails, but you get flooded with phone calls, and other contacts that are irrelevant to what you are seeking. I would definitely be interested in alternative ways to give my resume an exposure, but on a higher levels than what job boards can offer… and I would love to get one on one interaction by my targeted companies and not someone who calls you up trying to get you situated in a job but obviously neglected to read your job board profile and resume. Trunk may not give a really accurate information, and sometimes may miss a point, but shes way ahead of of what I see out there currently available.

By: Bas van de Haterd

Bas van de Haterd — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:52:12 +0000

Great interview and oh so true. Sure, people still go to boards, like she says: when you are desperate. But the truly great talents, will never apply for a job, they want to be asked. And that group is expanding every month (the level or bar is set lower per day). Why? Because we have the lowest unemployement in history (at least, in Europe we do) and about 15% of the work force is leaving in the next 7 years…

By: Polly Pearson

Polly Pearson — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:55:28 +0000

LOVE the interview, the conversation and the power of social media. The world is new and exciting … once again!

Cheers!

Polly Pearson
VP Employment Brand @ EMC

By: Scott Williamson

Scott Williamson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:16:30 +0000

I’ve been reading and watching Penelope for a while now and mostly I find her provocative. Not necessarily right, in fact I often disagree with her points even though she’s creative in their delivery.

Her take that Gen Y doesn’t use job boards is just another example of that. Some may not use job boards but most do. The reality is that HR/recruiters don’t have time to blog and participate with candidates at that level. While the market may eventually force them to, at this point, there isn’t a labor shortage on a level to force this type of change.

By: Rob Humphrey

Rob Humphrey — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:36:45 +0000

Cool. Never heard anyone laugh at their own joke so hard..

By: Maren

Maren — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:14:02 +0000

I am sorry to say that I cannot repost this vid on my blog. Bummer because it is too funny. unfortunately, I saw you all weekend and I don’t think you were ever wearing pants. Thanks Penelope for calling him out on it.

By: Geoff Jennings

Geoff Jennings — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:43:32 +0000

Although I wouldn’t want to meet her in a dark alley late at night, I wouldn’t mind drilling:-) her about online recruitment. She seems to be on the money.

By: Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com

Steven Rothberg, CollegeRecruiter.com — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:08:08 +0000

I think that Penelope is great but she’s dead wrong when she says that Millennials a/k/a Gen Y’ers don’t go to job boards. Without a doubt, some Gen Y’ers don’t use job boards, but that’s no different than any other niche. We have hundreds of thousands of unique visitors per month, millions of dollars in sales, and are quite profitable. None of those would be true if Penelope’s analysis was correct.