Conventional wisdom would have us believe that job boards and related services - now moving into their third decade of existence - are on the way out. They've been overwhelmed and pushed aside by technologies such as programmatic and AI.…
Funding has picked up again (see bullet #1, below), and some major players like Xing and Google are making some major moves. As you'll see, activity is present around the globe - demonstrating once again that our industry is truly…
First movers define categories. This is a given in marketing, and we have seen it over and over in our industry. The 'classic' job board is defined by Monster of the '90s and '00s - chock-full of job ads, interstitials,…
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…
There's been no shortage of news over the past few weeks from companies big (Google), in between (MeetFrank), and not so big (Adzuna). Toss in a few industry conferences and you have a pretty interesting summer! Let's see what's happened…
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…
Another month, another round of changes and action in the recruitment marketing biz! We continue to see companies try on new names and new identities, players big and small working hard to expand into new markets, and - of course…
If you read a lot of HR blogs and magazines - like I do - you will notice a lot of 'forecasts': '12 key trends in HR for 2017'; '6 technologies that will change recruiting'; and so on. Heck, I've…
At the TAtech conference in Denver, I had a brief conversation with Joel Cheesman about innovation. He challenged me to come up with any job boards or companies in recruitment marketing that were 'innovative'. I fumbled for an answer (as…
Ever since I read 'A Serf on Google's Farm', I've wanted to (a) draw it to your attention (read it!!), and (b) talk about the impact that the Facebook and Google monopolies have on our industry. The article has a…