The challenge is to learn how to use the differences in these tools to our advantage. To do that requires a new set of skills and habits that younger people often (but not always) have “built in” probably becuase they haven't learned any other way. For older folks,we have to re-learn, experiment and accept some lost time and energy in the process. But this is the price of learning. The investment will pay back many fold over time.

So, yu are right that misusin these tools may be worse than not using them at all – unless we are willing to learn and improve by getting feedback, making changes in our work habits, and honing new skills.

Thanks for writing

I take your point re. dated cv’s – job boards are in the ad distribution business tho, not in the candidate relationship management business; so the value of a job board might be more directly measured to their book of clients, and (agghh) ‘eyeballs’, rather than applicant satisfaction, however measured

I do believe though there is room for a model, likely enabled by social web, that will have to happen at recruitment process level, not at job posting stage.