{"id":838,"date":"2017-07-14T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2017-07-14T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T12:51:00","slug":"the-winning-value-proposition-for-job-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/the-winning-value-proposition-for-job-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winning Value Proposition for Job Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Weddle, TAtech.org<\/p>\n<p>The critics see job boards as sites that simply repurpose old fashioned classified advertising on the web. Oh sure, they charge, job postings \u201clook\u201d different than their print cousins, but basically, they\u2019re the same \u2013 an ad for an open job described with information only an employer could love \u2013 requirements and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Now to be honest, that was the design of job boards circa 1998. But it wasn\u2019t a misstep; it was a smart move. Job boards took on newspapers \u2013 society\u2019s most powerful institution back then \u2013 and clobbered them in the marketplace with their own product. There was just one difference: the ads posted on job boards were more informative, more accessible and a lot less expensive than what the newspapers were offering.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers had the financial resources to respond to the challenge, but didn\u2019t. Why? Because they couldn\u2019t get past their own definition. They published their ads in newsprint, so they saw themselves as print publishers. Job boards revealed, they weren\u2019t. They were information publishers. The medium was simply a delivery mechanism \u2013 important, to be sure, but not their defining purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Read Full Article &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tatech.org\/job-board-journalist-winning-value-proposition-job-boards\/\">http:\/\/tatech.org\/job-board-journalist-winning-value-proposition-job-boards\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Weddle, TAtech.org The critics see job boards as sites that simply repurpose old fashioned classified advertising on the web. Oh sure, they charge, job postings \u201clook\u201d different than their print cousins, but basically, they\u2019re the same \u2013 an ad for an open job described with information only an employer could love \u2013 requirements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,66,5],"tags":[35,291,324],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-hr-2","category-job-board-news","tag-job-boards","tag-peter-weddle","tag-tatech-org"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/job-boards.jpg?fit=273%2C184&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vlXG-dw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":781,"url":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/what-killed-print-classifieds-why-should-job-boards-care\/","url_meta":{"origin":838,"position":0},"title":"What Killed Print Classifieds &#038; Why Should Job Boards Care?","author":"admin","date":"March 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Peter Weddle of TAtech - The Association for Talent Acquisition Solutions Newspapers used to rake in billions of dollars a year with their Help Wanted classifieds. 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