We are the robots
The most common question I've heard in the last two job board conferences (apart from 'where is the bar?') is: What is programmatic advertising? You have to admit, the phrase is a bit off-putting - we know about ads, but…
They caught my eye: a bushel of recruiting sites
Just back from TAtech (and will have a sum-up shortly), but in the meantime I continue to discover new job boards, recruiting sites, and other interesting recruiting startups. The last roundup was over a month ago, so I guess I'm…
Give me a hand!: the argument for business partners
Why business partners? Well..."It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry Truman Self-sufficiency can be a virtue - but it can also be a danger to your (business) health. It…
Musing about matching: ElevatedCareers and the long, long road
I admit it, I'm a sucker for 'Wouldn't it be cool if....?' products. You know - personal jetpacks, StarTrek transporters, self-cleaning litter boxes - and during my young adulthood (now sadly long past) I often indulged in buying 'gadgets'. They…
Overwhelmed!!: another roundup of new recruiting sites
So LinkedIn is having a tough time and there are rumblings of economic slowdown. Is that stopping our industry? Um, no. Although I started the year with a bunch of new sites, already my in-basket is overflowing. Let's take a…
A baker’s dozen: 13 new recruiting sites for 2016!
It's a new year, the snow is on the ground (in Iowa, that is), and it's time for new recruiting sites from the Doctor. I did my last round up in September 2015, which is like 50 years in our…
Job board shark tank: some survive…and some don’t
I've been covering the job board world in this blog since 2009. During that time, I've covered lots of startups. I thought it might be interesting to go back and see how many are still around. You could call this…
The global nature of the job board industry
The global nature of the job board industry has obvious. From the beginning we've had sites around the world filling recruiting needs. But over the past several years, I've noticed a shift in the types of activity - from a…
Job boards gotta launch: the latest in recruiting site startups
It's been months since my last overview of new, new-ish, and interesting job boards / recruiting site startups / sites that refuse to be called job boards. Strangely enough, that hasn't stopped the wave of entrants into our industry. So…
Global: the latest job board news from China, Australia, and beyond
It's that time again - time to take a look at what's going on in the global world of job boards. And I do mean global - as you'll see, much of the activity has been happening outside of North America. Let's…