Note: It's a few days before Christmas and the Doctor is undoubtedly frantically wrapping packages. This is a replay from last year. Enjoy! It's impossible to escape holiday music. Radio stations begin playing it in October September, Christmas muzak flows…
News is coming fast and furious this holiday season, and so I will unleash a (slightly) early round up of the latest job board and recruitment marketing news (Plus next week has at least a few holiday 'days off' for…
As you may remember, I try to keep an eye on the acquisitions and sales in the job board industry. Why? Well, first of all, I always need fresh ammo for responding to the 'are job boards dead?' question that…
Remember back to the pre-pandemic days - specifically, to 2017? That was the year that Google launched its Google for Jobs initiative. It promised to do for job search what it had previously done for shopping and travel: build a…
It's an interesting time in the job board and recruitment marketing industry. The pandemic has dampened demand for certain types of work, while creating additional demand for other types. The world's economies are limping along, trying to make it to…
The pandemic has brought a renewed focus on working remotely - which in turn has pushed gig work to the forefront once again. Makes sense, right? After all, if you've been laid off but you still have to pay the…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Sorry, just had to use that! But indeed, for some job boards, right now is pretty darn good. And for other job boards, it's not so great. Take,…
NOTE: It's been over 3 years since the Doctor's heart attack. In case you're wondering, he's doing fine. But he thinks the post he wrote after the original event is worth a re-read - particularly on this very important day…
Time flies when you're working on survey results! It seems like just yesterday when I was rounding up the industry news - not 4 weeks ago. Not surprisingly, a lot has happened since then - including moves by Textkernel, HireVue,…
The results are in - and there are some interesting bits of data. The survey, which included respondents from every area of the globe - from North America to Africa to Australia, and more - has data from job boards…