Old tech encompasses a wide range of things - from typewriters to transistor radios to email. Some old tech is still being used, almost unchanged - think of dress shoes or blue jeans. Other old tech has disappeared (faxes, anyone?),…
A fundamental challenge for our industry is candidate discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job boards - and newspapers before them - tried to solve this problem: they tried to make it easier…
It's that time of the year when your friendly Doctor needs some help - with the 2022-23 Recruiting Site Trends survey! To make it truly useful, I need your help and input! In addition to the usual valuable info on what…
I always smile when I hear a news report about the 'labor market' - as if a thing so vast and and full of complexity could ever be described easily. If you're in our industry, you know that 'unemployment' is…
Back in the early days of job boards - this would the dark ages of the 1990s - everyone put up their own version of what they thought a site should be. There were no dominant visual or functional models,…
When thinking about the coming months (and who isn't!), I suggest that you keep in mind that job boards - by their nature - are followers, not leaders. We can't compel employers to hire certain people, or focus on certain types of…
Another month has come and gone - have you been outside yet? No? You should - it's good for you! As you might guess, things continue to happen in the job board and recruitment marketing industry with companies like Jooble…
This the latest in a series of posts on how the job board industry has been responding to the pandemic - which I wished I could say is getting better, but doesn't seem to be. The world is opening up,…
When people talk about communication, they often frame it as one-way: 'I am communicating to you'. Substitute 'persuading' for communicating, and you end up with a commercial. 'I'm talking to you', instead of 'I'm talking with you.' We're all guilty of it,…
Seven years ago a job site for female millennials launched. It was called The Daily Muse. Fast forward to now - there was a name change (The Muse), an injection of $30 million dollars, massive growth, and voila!: the site…