27-07-2015
Although people have searched for jobs for literally hundreds of years, the way they searched remained fairly static: talk to friends and colleagues, physically visit potential employers, and search newspaper classifieds and ‘help wanted’ bulletin boards in their surrounding environment. In other words, looking for work was time consuming, and the chances of learning about a wide variety of jobs matched to the seeker’s skills were low.
Everything changed in the mid-90s with the advent of the internet and online job boards such as Monster and OCC. Jobs were now listed in a searchable database, …