You've probably already heard about the 'merger' of CareerBuilder and Monster. It's actually Apollo Global Management acquiring a controlling share of Monster, and Randstad backing out of the job board business. This news comes on the heels of reports concerning…
Acquisitions seem to be in the air - see Bullhorn acquires Textkernel, for example. Or Jobtoolz, or NetJobs, or... You get the idea. And could it be that Indeed's traffic is falling? Read on to find out: Jobtoolz acquires Hirehive: Belgian-based…
Indeed gets into staffing. Sound familiar? Of course it does. The company introduced Indeed Flex roughly five years ago (via the acquisition of UK staffing platform Syft) as their foray into the world of staffing - specifically tech staffing. And…
Pop quiz: which of the following will increase job board profitability the most? A) Individual job postings B) Regular 'special deals' events C) Annual or semi-annual job posting/resume access subscriptions I’m betting that most of you answered (C). Because it's true:…
After several years of underperformance by its job boards in Brazil and Mexico, it is not a surprise that Seek is exiting Latin America. To be clear, there is not a Seek-labeled site in Latin America; rather, there are several…
Yes, you read that right: online job ad revenue shrinks, at least according to a new report. Not the way I usually like to start the news roundup - and you'll see that plenty of sites are showing revenue growth…
By now you may have run into Google's AI overviews - summaries of text thrown up in answer to your query. Google rolled these overviews out to a certain number of search queries, although they haven't reveal which types of queries…
By now you've probably heard of the Indeed layoffs and Recruit's revenue decline. If not: Indeed laid off 1000 employees on May 13, a cut of about 8% of the total workforce. This follows a layoff in March of 2023…
Remember department stores? I do. I remember going to Hubbards, our local Texas version - riding up the escalator to the men's department on the 2nd floor, and of course the reverse path to the toy department in the basement.…
AI and verification: the new job board peanut butter and jelly? OK, I'm stretching things a little (maybe a lot). But the reality is that when AI can mimic humans so well that deep fakes are often effective at fooling…