I recently had one of my articles published on Cheezhead about people boards as opposed to job boards.  Unsurprisingly, the article provoked a lot of reaction…..some negative (from seasoned job boarders I’m guessing) and a lot positive.

My simple and brief definition of a job board is as follows:

1. enables people to promote their skills
2. enables people to publish their availability and references
3. enables people to control how their data is presented and how they can be contacted
4. allows employers to search for people
5. 1-4 MUST be free of charge

Do you agree? Have I missed something from the list?  Let me know…I’ll behappy to debate it.

Making these talent tags free format opens up the “door” to a whole lot more uses……….for example, why not have your name as a talent tag?  That way, anyone can look you up, check your availability and see what you’re doing now.

We’ve made some interesting (we hope) changes to the KK website recently…. we’ve added a new concept called “Talent Tags”.

For those of you that are using the site to promote yourselves, this is really good news.  You can now describe your talents, skills or whatever yourselves using key words or phrases that YOU think describe yourselves.  Just login to My KK and select your portfolio.  You’ll see 2 fields that you can use.

1) Display Tag

This is the tag that gets displayed on your door.  Normally your job title, but it’s free form.

2) Talent Tags

Keywords about YOU… about your job, skills you have, or a particular talent.  These keywords are used by people searching for your skills.  Again it’s free form…just separate your phrases with commas.

Hope you like this new feature.  Please feel free to feedback any comments as usual!