Last week, major players in the job board space gathered in Chicago for the 2016 Jobg8 Job Board Summit of North America. Between June 23-24, job board professionals, experts and thought leaders from across the country and throughout the world gathered to discuss this constantly evolving space. Here are a few quick takeaways to digest:
- Despite age old fears that job boards might destroy the staffing industry, recent data shows that staffing agencies are in fact earning higher revenues than ever before:
https://twitter.com/HRTechAdvisor/status/613053243447492608
- And, even though staffing agencies are generating more revenue than ever before, job boards have had a pronounced effect on the recruiter’s bottom line:
https://twitter.com/renebolier/status/746344841789923329
- Regardless of cynical economic outlooks by pundits in the news media, job boards have a bright side to look toward:
https://twitter.com/RGreenWork/status/746046905591861248
- The overwhelming majority of applications and hires today are generated from job boards and aggregators… the only question is which job board is performing best:
https://twitter.com/renebolier/status/746054000911462400
- There’s an increasingly obvious gap between who job boards work with and who needs their services most:
https://twitter.com/tomchevalier/status/746353585663795200
- The fact that recruitment is now marketing was a prevalent theme, summed up best by this slide highlighting job marketing then and now:
https://twitter.com/LevyRecruits/status/746344172655882241
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