There’s good money still to be had in the traditional job board model. If you are Seek. They finished the financial year with total sales up 34% to $210.2 million. Nice.
Not hard to see why. Even their competitors are advertising with them…

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I’m all inspired by Rudd’s 20/20 Conference. As most of you have heard my anti-meeting rants, this might seem surprising - as this was really just one huge meeting.
But I also reckon it’s great to be future-focussed, and to map out some sort of inspired plan for how we want to shape things. […]

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“We think that we can create the number-two job board in Australia within 12 months, which really means knocking off MyCareer and CareerOne, and we think that we can be a third of the size of Seek within three years.”
-Guy Sigston (smart company magazine, 20 Feb., 2007)
It’s nearly a year on for Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. […]

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It’s about time I started to write on my own page about what’s happening in the world of Online Recruitment. I am a huge fan of Joel Cheesman’s blog, Cheezhead, and Brett Iredale who recently closed his blog at Nowhiring.
I have enjoyed seeing how much the recruitment industry has evolved over the past decade. […]

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