Reid All About it

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Another take on the young professional recruitment challenge comes from James Young of Product Community. Competing against niche professional organizations, membership and conference revenue has “slowed to a trickle.” The writing has been on the wall for a long time—follow the link in the story to the 2014 memo written by a former ED.

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YourMembership

JANUARY 15, 2015

At the beginning of 2014 we started a conversation on the importance of a career center strategy for associations, especially in light of social networking giant LinkedIn’s aggressive efforts to become the leading online job board aggregator.

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Leading Learning

JULY 2, 2020

I first posed this question in a post published in 2014. Associations also have a long history of providing various forms of credentialing, from certificates to high stakes certifications, that are themselves a form of the “job market signaling” in which so much of the value of higher education degrees resides.

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