Full disclosure: I worked at Dice (now DHI) from 1997 through 2000. I don't hold DHI stock, and have only fleeting contact with DHI personnel. Also, I'm not too excited about the DHI logo. So DHI, parent company of Dice,…
The results are in from the 2018-19 Recruiting Site Trends survey! Nearly 200 job boards, recruitment marketing companies, and related businesses responded to this year's survey. As always, I think you'll find their answers interesting and useful. Here are a…
If you are like me, you sift through 150 or so articles a day about the HR and recruiting industry, looking for trends in the noise that seem most relevant to our corner of it. Who got funding? What new…
Hey everyone! It's that time of the year - time for the 2018-19 Global Recruiting Site Trends survey! As always, I need your help to get it off the ground. In addition to the usual valuable info on what recruiting sites…
I always thought it would be fun to be a personal advice columnist, like 'Dear Abby'. The only problem was, I knew my answers would never get published in a general audience paper. 'Dear Jeff, my significant other is having…
To paraphrase a well-known movie/book, conferences are like a box of chocolates - you don't know what you'll get until you try one. Or something like that. The Jobg8 Summit last week in Nashville was a nice mix of old…
Job boards - both traditional and non-traditional - have historically had one primary purpose in life: finding candidates in order to bring candidates and employers together. For the traditional boards, that meant advertising - lots of it. Think Monster's Superbowl ads…
Remember full service gas stations? Most of us 'of a certain age' do. You'd pull up, an attendant (usually teenage and bored) would appear, ask you how much gas you wanted, then would proceed to clean your windshield and pump…
What do you get if you can't articulate what you want? Sometimes you get a surprise, as in: 'Just get me something that tastes good', and you are presented with 'liver and onions cooked 7 ways' (apologies to those liver…
Although I'm hardly a LinkedIn fan-boy, I've found their strategy since acquisition by Microsoft quite interesting. As many predicted, they've become enmeshed with Microsoft's various enterprise products. But they've also continued to grow their own product via what I call incremental…