Building a national labor exchange might not be “Rocket Science“, although it’s far from an easy task and does not happen overnight.

Last week I was lucky enough to spend some quality time with the Connecticut Department of Labor staff, as a consultant, helping with the transition from America’s Job Bank to the new JobCentral, National Labor Exchange. I was happy to hear about JobCentral’s immediate and extremely positive impact on “the long tail” of employers and job seekers in their market, not solely the Fortune 500. Unfortunately most “industry experts”, who are the outside of this science, cannot comprehend more than the web they know; since connecting with the tail is far more than providing slick technology or distribution services...

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