It’s a hackneyed metaphor, I know, but I still think it works. Job boards can learn a lot about how best to proceed in the future by looking back at the past. So, that’s what I’ve done. I went back to the 1999 edition of Weddle’s Guide to Employment Sites on the Internet and took...Read More
I was sitting in the dining hall with my new colleagues a few months into my first job out of graduate school when I started to chuckle at the recent email that just came through. I announced sarcastically to the group that, unfortunately, I just read that I didn’t get the other job that I...Read More
By Peter Weddle, Founder & CEO TAtech I took a trip down memory lane in my last post. My destination was the 1999 edition of Weddle’s Guide to Employment Web Sites on the Internet, a travel guide to what was then the frontier of the job board industry. That early book – yes, it was...Read More
Recruiters working in the same industry and location are often competing against each other for the same talent. But they’re competing with more employers than those in just the same area or industry. Talent competition extends beyond that. You might have a talent competitor because they offer a low barrier to entry and comparable wages....Read More
By Peter Weddle, Founder & CEO TAtech Twenty-five years ago – back in the dark ages of 1999 – I started writing a column for The Wall Street Journal. My beat was the emerging community of employment sites on the internet, a group more commonly referred to as “job boards.” As I watched these sites...Read More
By Peter Weddle, Founder & CEO TAtech The TA solutions industry has recently experienced a tsunami of commentary that has alternated between panic and confidence. This deluge of words has focused on just three companies and a variation of just one question. • What’s Google’s next move in TA? • What’s LinkedIn planning to do?...Read More
