HINT: Think dinosaur.

“Job boards will be gone in 10 years or sooner.”

We vote for ’sooner.’  Job seekers are becoming much more savvy at finding opportunities outside of the boards.  We are all learning how to develop networks and connect directly with the people making the hiring decisions.

A fall 2008 webinar by Kenexa reported a 500 to 1 chance for a job-seeker to find a job through the big three job boards, Monster, CareerBuilder, and YahooHotJobs. ..today users find more shortcomings than advantages.

As a job seeker, this comes as no surprise. We’ve said many times here that the job boards are dead—time to stick a fork in ‘em. As we noted in an earlier article, it’s no secret that job seekers are fed up with a cumbersome application process that leads no where (or, as we call it, the black hole). They know all too well what happens to their resumes after applying for a job through one of these sites: to infinity…and beyond!!  The amount of spam mail they receive is a different story altogether.

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