RIP: Putting AJB to Bed and Moving On follow this blog post

posted by Gerry Crispin on July 18, 2007

Ed Frauenheim's Workforce week article, Bank Withdrawal: The Closure of America?s Job Bank, was the best description of the issues leading to AJBs demise I've read to date. http://www.workforce.com/section/06/feature/24/99/21/index.html

 

Time to move on.

 

I'm surprised more firms- especially sites like Monster.com, CareerBuilder and Hotjobs as well as job distribution services such as eQuest have not developed solutions for their client (employer) communities or, if they have, I've somehow missed their announcement.

 

Specifically, I want to see employers able to distribute their openings to the individual employment offices that operate in the communites where the employer is hiring. The service should be very low cost (perhaps as an add on) and obviously user friendly.

 

This isn't rocket science. DirectEmployers is to be commended for taking the lead but where are all those "private industry" suppliers that the critics of AJB expected to take up the slack?

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•  Deborah Jones

  1 point 2 years ago

  $27 million of our taxpayer dollars is too much to support a service that cannot possibly compete with the broad array similar services available in the private sector and also cannot, by its very nature, turn a profit.

  Unemployment offices that endeavor to assist job seekers can instead guide them to use what job boards are available and meaningful to them in the private sector, just like everyone else must do in order to succeed. There is never a single government solution that can compete with the vast variety created by the private sector. And so it goes.

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