job boards should they stay or should they go?

well, i'm glad you asked.

there is a most interesting discussion happening on geoff jennings blog, that just became marginally more interesting with a comment from yours truly.

so, if you want to have a squiz at what some industry heavyweights (me excluded) have to say you should check it out at geoffjennings.com.

what did i have to say?

read on...

i still believe that the shift away from job boards will be a long drawn out process, if a process at all. consider how long it has taken to get the candidates from the newspapers to the Internet? now most folks i speak to regard me as a freak because i twitter. which is right and wrong. right in that yes, i am freak - fair call and its a cross i bear, but wrong in that expanding social networks are becoming more and more mainstream. bethatasitmay, the shift from jobboards where i can load up a resume and ping it to 50 jobs at the click of a button (or close to) to more labour intensive and cerebrally challenging processes will take time. i’m lazy, the general punter on the street is lazy and status quo rules (not the band).

so i watch with interest more or less form the sidelines. and leave you with something an online expert said to me more than a year ago:

“if the recruitment agencies and the corporates got their shit together they could take down the job boards overnight. problem is, neither of these things will happen.”

prophetic? probably!