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“Where do your best candidates come from?

That’s the million-dollar question that the AIM Group, experts in online media revenue, wanted to know for their annual Recruitment Advertising 2009 survey. They asked 75 recruiters, HR professionals, managers, and recruitment agents where they are spending their limited ad budgets to find out what is and isn’t working for them.

Sometimes when something is popular and successful for a long time it becomes a defacto standard, or something that is just accepted, no questions asked. Over time, other people and organizations try to catch hold of the coat tails of this success by copying (sometimes with slight variations, often with none) the original idea.

There comes a point when everyone is too busy admiring this “something” to notice that times have changed and the world has moved on. Such is the case of the ubiquitous job board.

An interesting article from Mike Vuturo who worked as a strategic planning manager at VR Mergers & Acquisitions in the States and his ongoing issues with job boards.
His experience is being echoed around the world as generalised job boards start losing their weight as an important tool for businesses in the recruitment process. Is [...]