LinkedIn’s new moves
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?…
Appcast, Appcast, Appcast!: News of the recruitment marketing industry
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…
Monikl, flocks, and malls: new and interesting recruitment offerings
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…
Google-text-depth: random advice from the Doctor
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…
What’s in a deal?: recruitment marketing companies buy and sell
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…
Fad or fixture? Developments in recruitment marketing
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…
Google Jobs again: the sky is falling edition
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…
Boom!: Google creates a hiring system
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…
Lines are getting blurry: Are ATSs becoming job boards?
If you follow my blog, you know that I often complain about applicant tracking systems (ATS) - mostly in relation to what they don't for candidates and how they can hurt job boards (via poor source tracking). But it's a…
Simplicity versus complexity – why the former is always better
Have you tried applying for a job lately? If the employer is of any size, you will probably be directed into an applicant tracking system (ATS), where you will fill out many pages of questions. It can be a time-consuming…