Comments on: a must-read on recruitment advertising

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:03:37 +0000

Stick a fork in ‘em. Job boards are dead. For a product that produces, at best, 12% of hires and eats up the bulk of a recruiting budget, job boards have outlived their usefulness. As I wrote recently (http://undergroundjobnetwork.com/?p=487), the boards have become a gaping black hole that serves neither job seekers nor the companies looking to hire them.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:31:39 +0000

Blake – great commercial from IBM…kinda sums it up – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obCHKPYHuhA

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:32:34 +0000

Blake – Glad you noticed the train has jumped the track with the idea that you can recruit with twitter or facebook…dont expect anyone to be able to explain this silliness….just know it all the buzz right now. I speak with employers all day and they are as confused as you and I are.

By: Blake Carrington

Blake Carrington — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:53:41 +0000

I’d like someone to respond to Downtown’s comment about facebook for recruiting. I totally agree that there is nothing there. It is insanely slow. You have to be friends with someone to see their profile. The content for most people isn’t really relevant to their recruitability. If you do a skills search, you get back garbage. I can’t imagine that Facebook is a recruiting tool, but I suppose it might be a fun place to surf while you’re waiting for candidates to apply to the jobs you posted on all the boards.

Can someone please explain how I would use Facebook to recruit someone skilled like a software developer or a pediatric nurse?

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:06:01 +0000

Why were sites like http://www.OneWire.com not included? This in my opinion is the future of hiring as it is more of a matching engine with an ATS backend for companies.

Linkedin is a nice tool but does not really seem to offer flexibility and i am not sure why anyone would consider Facebook a hiring tool. I am curious as to the value Twitter can provide for hiring.

By: Adam Lawrence

Adam Lawrence — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:21:31 +0000

Great post, one of your stats that has fallen completely contrary to our results is the success rate for DICE. We rate it a very distant 3rd in the “big board” rankings, and have found significant candidate overlap with Monster and CareerBuilder; with many of the remaining candidates requiring visa sponsorship.

I am not at all surprised by your stats regarding recruitment advertising spend for 2010.

Can you provide any detail regarding the industry segmentation of your survey sample?

By: Talent Tidbits | Destination Talent

Talent Tidbits | Destination Talent — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:12:35 +0000

[...] in recruitment advertising A new research by AIM group found social networks and niche boards are gaining grounds as sourcing [...]

By: ZZTop

ZZTop — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:20:05 +0000

Hey DG…Its Simplyhired and they are not a job board.

By: DG

DG — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:50:40 +0000

Big job boards are going the same way as the newspapers and dinosaurs. They do not deliver on their promise of quality candidates. I have hired more people from networking through LinkedIn and Craigslist than from Monster, CareerBuilder and hot jobs combined at a fraction of the cost. The big job boards are for lazy recruiters that hire mediocre talent. The most laughable of them all is Simply Hire.

By: Dina Mederios

Dina Mederios — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:57:05 +0000

Great article…we have a lot of educating to do.

I’m curious if the stats were different for east coast/south/ west coast companies….I see pockets of the nation still just post and praying and other pockets with blown out recruitment plans utlizing multiple tools/advertising and Sourcing….