Myth: LinkedIn is the Death of Job Boards
March 15, 2012 1:41 PM written by Lee Biggins 
9 Comments
It’s true that LinkedIn is a fantastic source for professional candidates and the networking and targeting possibilities are endless. However, it’s false that LinkedIn will ever replace job boards.
At CV-Library we’ve never been busier and 2012 has been non-stop so far; from our first ever TV campaign and London underground advertising to record breaking stats backed up by our latest independent ABCe audit. Year on year and month on month we’re receiving more site visits, CV registrations and job applications. So, I’m not sure why people think LinkedIn is killing job boards?
LinkedIn is a fantastic tool and definitely something our sales team keep an eye on. We’re certainly not naive and we understand that recruiters need to use a variety of platforms; but the truth is LinkedIn is simply not a competitor of ours.
LinkedIn actually supports what we do and demonstrates how easy it is to recruit; this has encouraged a lot more start up companies and gives recruiters the confidence they need to ‘go it alone’. As soon as these companies become more established and the free sites can’t meet their demands online job boards automatically join the equation. We pride ourselves on the support we offer all of our clients, whether they’re a one man band or a well-established global corporate.
We’ve started to notice an increase in the number of small start up agencies and we’re welcoming them on board – thanks LinkedIn!
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I totally agree, LinkedIn is a great tool but it is only one source of possible candidates and not every exec is on that platform or on any given job board. Niche specialist job boards and good platforms like CV Library will always have an important role to play as will good recruiters who utilise them (and many other sourcing channels including direct head-hunting) and through doing so can offer clients a choice of talent from the active and semi active, to the passive and deeply passive/ inactive talent the latter aren’t on public sites and are well rewarded and achieving in their current role.
Great information laying out the wide range of technology recruiting solutions offers and what is currently evolving in the recruitment, staffing sector.
However, the solutions presented currently only do two functions: To Source Information and to manage that Information, which is all Skills, Knowledge and Abilities ‘SKA’ based. The missing link of information is the 3rd Element (soft skills) the reason employees leave an organisation; they are hired for what they know and fired, or leave, because they do not fit in with the organisational culture.
The current technology in Social Media does the same; it is used as an effort to seek out more subjective information about a person /candidate, another effort to seek out soft skills, as one does during an interview. There is plenty of information on the challenges of interviews. Interviewers Not Up to the Job – says Niki Chesworth-Evening Standard April 5 2011
We source and manage candidate information then the final decision is made on intuition.
The missing Link 3rd Element, soft skills technology is the solution which is a truly added value service and information to make the best selection decision.
All LinkedIn has currently is a better mouse trap
James Lanas
LinkedIn will NOT be the death of job boards, via @LeeBiggins http://t.co/a3fbe3jx
Completely agree Lee – I wrote a brief blog about this a couple of months ago – http://haysdigital.blogspot.co.uk/
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LinkedIn isn’t a job board killer. It will work in conjunction with every other means of recruitment; email, Twitter, Facebook and good old networking.