Users gain visibility and control to make adjustments throughout the course of a hiring campaign, resulting in flexibility unavailable
through traditional job boards and more efficient time - to - fill job openings.
That doesn't mean a job seeker should
ignore traditional job boards in conducting their search — but there's a right way and a wrong way to use these platforms to your advantage.
In 2014, fewer recruiters found talent
on traditional job boards alone and more cited professional social networks and niche job boards as important sources of hire, according to a report from CareerXroads.
Facebook will now integrate with ZipRecruiter — an aggregator that allows those looking to fill jobs to post ads to
many traditional job boards, as well as sites like LinkedIn, Google and Twitter — to boost the number of job ads available on its platform targeting its 2 billion monthly active users.
In recent years, the automation of recruiting and hiring has developed beyond
the traditional job boards of yesterday (if we can consider the early Internet traditional) and into outreach and applicant tracking systems.
Traditional job boards are just as important as ever to keep checking, but don't discount the growing importance of social media in job hunting.
What has become obsolete, or at least significantly reduced, is the reliance upon advertising jobs using print publications and
traditional job boards.
Recently, around 2 - 4 % of people posting resumes on
a traditional job board found employment.
VetJobs is
a traditional job board.