Comments on: Do Some Job Boards Drive You Crazy? A modest proposal

By: Career Liaison Blog

Career Liaison Blog — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:35:46 +0000

Justifying Employer Spend on a Job Board…

Jeff Dickey-Chasins has a list of suggestions for job boards better serving employers; here’s one that stood out for us:
Do give me reporting: How can I justify spending on your site if you can’t give me the numbers I need? Tell me how many tim…

By: Jennifer Greenfield

Jennifer Greenfield — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:33:06 +0000

All excellent points! I’d add to your #10: “provide consistent reporting.” Don’t just send me an end-of-year summary along with my (greatly increased) renewal package offer. Send monthly reports, analyze the results EACH month, provide a short-list of “areas to increase effectiveness” and make suggestions to get me better results (and not cost more dollars). (At least is what I strive to get for my clients.)

By: Fran Bears

Fran Bears — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:08:52 +0000

Good Points Jeff. I would add “do police your website and get rid of the fake jobs, resumes and offensive posts.

By: Julie Greenberg

Julie Greenberg — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:58:06 +0000

Totally agree. How about a job board that attracts currently-employed people? I wanted one, so I created one! My site is http://www.jobnob.com. Anyone can see real salaries for free, so we have both employed and unemployed workers. Our “Jobs” tab has open positions.

By: Steve Crumley

Steve Crumley — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:35:20 +0000

Great points! And one more for all of them, but MB and CB in particular. Make sure your search results are relevant… on both the job search side and the candidate side!

By: Katie McNab

Katie McNab — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:57:19 +0000

Thanks Jeff – That made me chuckle. All very good suggestions! Here’s another one:

Help me make my ads more effective: If you use a search approach that focuses on keywords, tags or a full text search- that’s useful information. Tell me what candidates typically search for on your site, and how I can structure my ad to get more ‘hits’. Let me know if you think I should be posting under a different category.

By: Eric Putkonen

Eric Putkonen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:40:19 +0000

Do allow me to embed a video into my job ad if I already have one produced.

Monster and Careerbuilder have little interest in this it seems, but I made a suggestion on HotJobs’ site to allow embedded code in the job ads…so we have the ability to put in a video (hosted on YouTube or equivalent).

I told HotJobs this would give them a competitve advantage, as video is coming (see Google, Sony Erickson, Enst & Young, etc.) and if we hired someone to produce video (or have someone on staff…I suspect this position will exist in the future in many companies)…then we could get the video on the ad at no additional cost (unlike Monster and Careerbuilder).

They allow people to rate the suggestions…please go rate it so it becomes more visible to HotJobs.

http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=hotjobs&fid=139377