When the jobs market recovers will it be recruitment agencies or job boards who prevail? Will there be room for both? We are going to recover from this downturn, and when we do, the talent shortage is going to be more severe than anything we experienced a year or two ago. Finding talent, connecting with this talent and building talent communities is going to be what separates the winners from the losers in the recruitment industry, in my opinion. Sourcing talent will become far more fragmented in the future, and candidates will be accessed from an ever increasing variety of channels including social media, blogs, specialty sites, as well as user and special interest groups. Job boards will play a role, certainly, especially niche boards, but increasingly they will become less effective, particularly when it comes to connecting with the elusive passive candidates. Greg Savage, The Savage Truth