By my very rough count (i.e., take it with a grain of salt!), there have been 17 acquisitions in the recruitment marketing industry since the start of the year. Considering that there had been only 9 acquisitions for the same…
Another month, another bundle of industry news! This time around, Indeed has big news, Fiverr continues to thrive, and acquisitions continue apace. Hang on, this roundup will be a long one. Let's get started: Upwork's revenue is...up: Upwork reported fourth-quarter…
LinkedIn is big - literally. It has more than 15,000 employees in 30+ offices around the world. It has 645 million members in 200 countries. And it's trying some new moves - because it has to. So what's going on?…
There is - as always - plenty of news this month. But as you perhaps can guess from the title, the big news is Stepstone's majority stake in Appcast. More in a minute. Just remember - big news can drop…
Back in October I took a look at some new and interesting recruitment offerings. Well jeez, that was last year! So I figured it was time to take another look at what has been popping up in our industry. In…
I always thought it would be fun to be a personal advice columnist, like 'Dear Abby'. The only problem was, I knew my answers would never get published in a general audience paper. 'Dear Jeff, my significant other is having…
For the past couple of years, I've been keeping a list of job board and recruitment marketing industry 'transactions' - in other words, when companies have been bought, sold, or merged. (And in case you're wondering, I've counted 5 since…
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…
Last week I walked through the Google Jobs initiative, which is comprised of a specific way of marking up job ads (and letting Google know you did), and the Cloud Jobs API, which addresses job search. There is a third…
Remember Google Base? Joel Cheesman does. "The company launched Google Base in the mid-2000s to much fanfare." And...it never went anywhere. Then last year Google announced that they were working with CareerBuilder, Jibe, and Dice on a Jobs API. That…