1) Your forum design is nothing to be proud of.
But in the same turn, it's nothing to be ashamed of. Simplicity rules in my book.
2) Here's a tip from the owner of vBulletin:
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What are the most common mistakes you see new admins making?
The biggest mistake made by new administrators and long-time administrators alike is trying to create too many forums on a board. Unless a board has an extremely active membership of several thousand people there is almost no point in having the board subdivided into lots and lots of forums. All too often I see boards that give the impression of being totally dead because there are a hundred forums, each receiving only a handful of posts per day. It is far better to have everyone post to just a small number of forums so that everyone can see what everyone else is doing. This mixing of topics and people is the fundamental essence of community. Once you have a million posts and a few thousand unique posting visitors every day, then you can think about adding more forums so that topics don't get lost.
3) "This operation timed out when attemping to contact www.discusscareers.com"
Site is slow. Server sucks.
For these reasons I will be unable to complete this review.