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Guest Post: Dominic Summers, founder of OME, writes about his view on the challenges and opportunities facing the job board industry in 2016.

If you work within the recruitment industry or just keep your ear to the ground when it comes to career development and jobs, you will have heard the rumors that have long been spread - the job board’s days are numbered.

Increased investment in mobile advertising has shifted expectations from advertisers. Agencies want to target their ads at the right audience.

To stay competitive in a growing online recruitment market, it is vital to adopt additional tools and platforms to increase revenue streams.

I’ve worked with a number of job boards of varying shapes and sizes. One of the many frequent questions I’m asked is regarding how best to measure success.

Accessibility is an important issue in web design. Every individual using the internet has the right to access same information on the web and to have a positive and equal experience.

Whilst the majority of employers have a lot of success using job boards, less successful advertisers often ask ‘Why aren’t my adverts receiving more applicants?’

Across a wide range of industries, companies are finding that demand for skills is far outweighing supply, and as this skills gap continues to widen, are having to think more creatively as to how to beat the competition.

With sales of smartphone and tablet devices accelerating rapidly and new devices constantly launched into the market, mobile is clearly a vitally important channel for all job board businesses.

At the close of 2013 tablets were on the cusp of exceeding desktop sales, with most usage happening within the home from a Wi-Fi connection.

All of our responsive products are increasingly being delivered to international markets. One of the challenges for a designer is to design responsive layouts for multiple languages.

With more and more smartphone and tablets hitting the shelves and jobseekers moving between various devices in their job search we believe the answer is responsive design.