A couple of times a year I do a guest lecture in a college class at my alma mater that focuses on creative and non-traditional careers. It's always interesting because it puts me in direct contact with some very smart soon-to-be…
Note: The Doctor is on a much-needed vacation this week. So enjoy this post from 2017 - and get ready for fall! Since the beginning of the year there have been dozens of recruiting startups, mergers, and acquisitions. Google is…
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…
Note: The Doctor is heading off to Jobg8's Summit in Nashville this week - and thus thought a repost of this would be a good idea. Enjoy! Hey folks, in a few months days I am heading off to the Jobg8…
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…
Note: The Doctor is recovering from the holiday (and too much house painting!). Enjoy this still-relevant post from last year: A fundamental challenge for our industry is discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job…
How much do you know about your clients, as in data? I mean, really know? I was recently reading an article about Larry Smarr and his attempts to completely document himself and his health. He carries it to an extreme that no…
Note: It's the day after Christmas and the Doctor is undoubtedly asleep with visions of sugarplums dancing in his head...or are those programmatic ads? This is a replay from last year. Enjoy! It's impossible to escape holiday music. Radio stations…
Since its inception, the job board industry has been built on the reality that most job seekers discovered sites via a search engine. Yes, there have been periods of ‘extreme advertising’, such as Monster’s Superbowl ads – but the reality…
There is a tendency - in every industry, not just our own - to look past market complexity for the 'next big thing'. We're talking about ground-shaking, market-changing stuff - like maybe Monster, LinkedIn, Indeed, or (even) Google. Each one…