Internet Job Boards - are they a help or a hinderance?

HAVE YOUR SAY! Internet Job Boards - are they a help or a hinderance? Smart business or transactional numbers game?

For me, more jobs ads from more agencies with lots of job seekers = more disappointment & ghosting! Some recruiters say it's to help their branding - ghosting candidates has the opposite affect!

Despite giving the impression that they are hyper-connected to the job seeker market, internet job boards seem to be the first-up go-to tool for IT recruiters & organisations searching for talent.

With agency recruitment being largely contingent / competitive with an average 25% success & 75% failure rate, many recruiters quickly post a job ad to kick off a campaign rather than searching LinkedIn Recruiter, Seek Premium, searching their database or using their network.

Whilst I understand the rationale, the consequences create a vicious Catch-22 numbers game:

- recruiter posts a job ad

- lots of candidates apply- recruiter can't respond to everyone in a meaningful way

- candidates get ghosted & don't understand why

- more recruiters post ads, sometimes for the same vacancy

- candidates apply for more vacancies, become less selective

- more ghosting

To me, no one really gets what they want in this vicious cycle.

- recruiters have to play an expensive numbers game to survive

- candidates are treated like numbers, disrespectfully

- recruiters & organisations risk brand damage

- more & more candidates seek to bypass recruiters, use their professional networks to find their next gig

Sure, if you're currently employed or a hiring manager, you are largely unaffected by this...until you become a job seeker...& that's just a matter of time!

Understanding & acknowledging the problems is the start to finding a solution!

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