The Jobg8 Job Board Summit I recently went to in New Orleans is a time for job board execs and those who serve them to get together and talk shop. The job board industry has been under a lot of pressure lately, primarily due to some big players entering the space, so I was interested to take it all in and see what would unfold.
Here’s what stood out over the course of two days:
Lastly, I have to say the industry is really fun again. I’ve been around long enough to remember the environment before the floor dropped in 2008. It was a time of low unemployment, lots of action, and constant buzz. Companies had money to spend and positions to fill. They needed solutions.
The current environment resembles those halcyon days. Job boards, vertical job search engines, “Web 2.0” and Facebook apps have been replaced with A.I., chatbots, automation, and deep learning, but the energy is the same.