Hi, I’m Stephen O’Donnell, with TAtech.

In the coming weeks and months, I’m going to be writing about the global job board sector for TAtech. The Association has always been a home for job boards, and I’ll cover new developments, new sites, features, mergers, acquisitions, and sometimes the odd failure. It’s an exciting world to be part of, and one that we at TAtech has a very bright future.

Let me first establish my own credentials. Until 1999 I was traditional recruiter, owning and running recruitment agencies in Scotland. Having built my own agency website, I realised there was no central directory which informed jobseekers about all the places they could find advertised vacancies – so I launched AlljobsUK.com in 2000, which listed every job board in the UK, of all types, generalist, specialist, regional, as well as every recruitment firm with a website (and their recruiters), and every employer with over 100 staff.