As you already know because you're in the thick of it, the recruitment marketing industry has been morphing and evolving significantly over the past 5 years. Companies have been bought and sold. Buying habits are changing. And hundreds of millions…
What's this about age bias? "Attorney General Lisa Madigan today sent letters to six national career and job search companies over potential age discrimination violations in setting age requirements for job seekers searching career opportunities." That's from a press release…
Despite my (somewhat sarcastic) comments last week, there are in fact a ton of things happening right now in the job board and recruiting site industry. Money is still dropping into our sector, startups are still starting up, and companies…
Sometimes you just have to dig to find a topic to write about in the recruiting site biz, you know? Particularly when you are in a backwoods, nothing-exciting industry like ours. I mean, I'd write about watching the grass grow...but…
To improve how your job board or recruiting site functions, you need to go right to the core consumer - specifically, the job seeker. In order to better understand exactly how job seekers look for work (and where they do it), Madgex and…
Note: TheDoctor is speaking at the Staffing Industry Analysts conference this week - so this post is a 'greatest hits' from March 2016. Enjoy! Seems like everyone and their donkey does a 'what's coming next' post around this time of…
It's true - focus drives function. An example: many years ago, Lloyd Linn, the then-owner of Dice, told me something that I have never forgotten: "If you don't have candidates, you won't have employers." In other words, without candidates, job…
Last year I counted 21 acquisitions, mergers, and sales in the recruiting site industry. 2017 has already notched one, with the sale of AuthenticJobs to BuySellAds. But new services continue to pop up, and since it's been almost 3 months…
Before we get into recruiting site conferences, did you notice that sly 'recruiting site' mention in the title? I didn't say 'job board'! And me - the JobBoardDoctor! What is the world coming to? Well, if you read this blog…
It's a new year and the recruitment marketing industry is humming along. I counted 21 job board acquisitions and mergers during 2016 - which makes me wonder what will happen in 2017 (yes, I'm expecting an economic slowdown, but I've…