Are Job Boards Like Indeed Dead?
With automated hiring no longer working, some companies are returning to good, old fashioned networking.
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A lot of companies looking to hire are giving up on the job boards: “In their view, the LinkedIns, the Indeeds, basically all the job boards, have devolved into an automated slippery slope that, in their eyes, produces no signal, just noise. A lot of noise. So these companies are opting out. They’re posting jobs on their own websites, or sometimes not, and using their current employees’ and investors’ networks of networks to find channels. They’re going through traditional but smaller recruiters, trade associations, user groups, colleges for entry-level positions, even niche online communities like Reddit and Hacker News.”
“The best recruiter I know is going to spend the next three months hiring without posting to a single job board website, like Indeed or LinkedIn. ‘LinkedIn?’ She laughed. ‘You mean Facebook for thought leaders? No, I won’t be using any of those sites.’
“‘Rosa’ is head of HR for a large tech startup, and someone I trust to tell me what’s really going on in the world of professional recruiting and jobs — the unflinching truth. The last time we talked, she had finally taken back control of her company’s recruiting process, rescuing it from over-automation, misguided AI, and what she called ‘results-last’ hiring.’ Her latest experiment, over the next three months, with her executive team behind her: Hire without LinkedIn and the rest of the job boards.”
“On the other side of the country, a CTO friend of mine spent his holiday break clearing a backlog of support tickets. Why? Because a bunch of folks quit, and when he tried to replace them, the modern automated hiring systems his company was using kept throwing up roadblocks. ‘Wasn’t that what all of this automation was supposed to do?’ he asked me. ‘Find me people quickly?’” READ MORE
