Industry news about the job board and recruitment marketing sector
The more things change, the more they stay the same - except when they don't. Now how's that for equivocation? The results are in for the 2011 Online Recruiting Survey, and they are intriguing. We had a record 323 completed…
Why a job board megamix? Well, there have been a lot of blog posts here over the years - 120, to be exact. Some faded quickly, and some didn't. So I thought it might be useful to have a roundup…
One of the first business lessons regarding big and small that I learned was that it is often better to have many smaller customers than fewer large ones. At the time, I was learning the ropes from a battle-hardened magazine…
There is a lot of activity in the online recruiting industry now - more than I've seen in many years. Money is flowing in, startups are blossoming, and established players are branching out. So why now? Part of it stems…
Go to any animal shelter and you will usually see pets that simply got too big for their owners - hulking St. Bernards, twelve-foot pythons, walking catfish, and so on. It's easy in hindsight to blame the owners. But the…
Although job board technology may not always seem important, the job board industry is a technology-driven industry. After all, it was the combination of a database and the web that gave it birth so many years ago. After a fairly…
Job board industry predictions are a dime a dozen - and if you're lucky, no one goes back at the end of the year to see how accurate your soothsaying actually was. Nevertheless, I like job board industry predictions just…
In 2009 (vs. job boards 2010), the job board industry (and the rest of the world) was deep in the recession's trough. It was ugly. With 2010 essentially in the rear view mirror, I think I can safely say that…
It's been an interesting several months in the job site world. To wit: Indeed surpasses Monster: Yep, for the first time a job site aggregator's traffic surpassed the 'monster' of our industry. RealMatch lands some serious VC dollars: Remember my…
There is a lot of great writing out there covering the job board and online recruiting industries - in fact, it's easy to overlook good material. So I've rounded up some of the most interesting pieces from the past months…