The official data this quarter sent a mixed signal. June's nonfarm payrolls report came in soft at just 57,000, well below the roughly 115,000 consensus. But that followed a stronger-than-expected May, and JOLTS data showed May job openings climbing to…
(Note from the Doc: Happy Friday, Job Board Doctor friends! In the past year since the bankruptcy of Monster and Careerbuilder, followed by the Job.com bankruptcy, I have been following how private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) impact innovation,…
Happy Friday Job Board Doctor friends! What a week it has been. What's on tap this week? Three updates and a rumor. Maki People responds to the Doc. Dennis Van Allemeersch joins Jobiqo's advisory board Adzuna lifts Joblift off the…
The winner ATSs have already made the shift in how they think about product strategy. For much of the past two decades, product strategy in recruitment technology revolved around a deceptively simple question: should we build this ourselves or buy…
(Note: This article was updated on July 17th, 2026 following information received from Maki People. See updates below.) Happy Friday Job Board Doctor friends! Thanks again to Lou and the Jobiqo team for wrangling the weekly last week. If you…
(Happy Friday, Job Board Doctor friends! I am out learning and imbibing at RecFest UK this week. Fortunately for me (and you), Lou Goodman, in partnership with Jobiqo, has taken up the mantle this week and Lou is continuing her…
If you've spent any time in talent acquisition, you know the dance. The candidate goes through at least three rounds of interviews. Everyone likes each other. Then compensation comes up, and the number is nowhere close to what they were…
Happy Thursday, Job Board Doctor friends! Two stories this week that, read together, tell you something uncomfortable about where worker protections actually come from. Both are happening at the state level, because the federal level is not happening at all,…
Happy Friday, Job Board Doctor friends. If you listened to Chad and Cheese last week, outside of my Job.com update, Chad hit on a term we have affectionately coined as "job slop." Job slop is the low-quality sludge filling our…
Executive Summary HR teams have long planned around one assumption: summer is when hiring slows down. Market signals increasingly suggest the opposite. Across labour market trends, evolving candidate behaviour, and campaign insights from VONQ’s global programmatic recruitment platform, a clear…