Contact: Dr. Randall S. Hansen
Quintessential Careers
Phone: 386-740-8872
Fax: 386-740-9764
Email: randall@quintcareers.com
February 8, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Major Job Boards to Die Within a Decade
Summary: A major paradigm shift in online job-searching moves closer to the mainstream as
Web 2.0 social networking sites and second generation job boards gain traction with employers and job-seekers.
(QUINTESSENTIAL CAREERS: DeLand, FL) – Online job boards will be gone within a decade or sooner. That's the assertion
of a new report and e-book on the state of Internet job-hunting from a leading career Website. Taking their place, a wave of
new social-media-driven job-search sites and tools is arriving online and expected to dramatically change how job-seekers
and employers find each other in the future.
"Just as the major job boards revolutionized how job-seekers searched, applied, and found jobs more than a decade ago,
a new crop of Websites are arriving that will once again change the job-search landscape," says Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.,
creative director for Quintessential Careers and author of the report
titled, The Long, Slow Death March of Job Boards -- and What Will Replace Them, as well as co-author of the accompanying
no-cost e-book, Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media.
"While traditional job boards will still play a role in how job-seekers find jobs over the next few years, social-networking sites
and second-generation job boards are quickly gaining inroads, and we can expect these and other emerging job-search
sites to replace the big job boards within a decade," Hansen states.
"One other element at the heart of this paradigm shift is the empowerment of job-seekers to create and manage their online
career persona, what we refer to as their digital presence," Hansen says. "As job boards diminish in importance and effectiveness,
and hiring decision-makers shift their approaches to connecting with talent through online searches, a digital presence becomes a must."
The 2009 report, the sixth in a series of annual reports published by Quintessential Careers covering the major trends in
online job-search, includes these findings about how employers and job-seekers are connecting with each other online:
- Job boards will be gone in 10 years or sooner.
- Digital presence, "findability," and search-engine optimization (SEO) increasingly are standard operating tools for jobseekers.
- Social-networking, people-finding, and micro-blogging participation are becoming critical to the job search.
- Blogging is seen as a both a way to demonstrate expertise and learn more about and connect with employers.
- Integrating multimedia into the job search -- a controversial trend -- is one to watch.
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