Podcast: LinkedIn; Zappos; Personalized Career Sites; Job Boards, and More

Why candidates aren’t completing the application process. What’s up with Zappos and its “no more more job descriptions” program. How LinkedIn can be better. Some truly innovative recruiting technology companies.

I talk about all that with Steven Rothberg of CollegeRecruiter in the 32-minute podcast below.

In this podcast:
02:00 … remarkably, the statistics on how many candidates view the job board
03:50 … choking out every nickel and dime
05:00 … company logos and blank pages
07:03 … Zappos and doing away with job postings
10:30 … Zappos’ huge strides – a leader in the industry
12:10 … Are they recent postings or legacy postings?
17:14 … company career site and personalized views of the jobs you want
18:37 … Smashfly — a great tool for employers
23:43 … thoughts on looking for a job on LinkedIn
29:27 … what LinkedIn could do that would be good for the candidate, especially with the 90 percent drop off rate.
30:31 … the box we created with the overemphasis on efficiency at the expense of effectiveness
31:43 … a nightmare for compliance, but cool

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