The big news in our industry is the impending ZipRecruiter IPO (set for the day after the Doctor's birthday - no coincidence, I am sure!). When a job board IPO shows up in the tech press, the financial press, and…
Wouldn't you know that right after my last news roundup, ZipRecruiter decided to fess up about an IPO! It's been an eventful couple of weeks for the job board and recruitment marketing industry (seems like I've been saying that a…
There has been a veritable firehose of news on the recruitment marketing and job board industry over the past few weeks - so I thought it was time to catch up. What kind of news? Acquisitions, MedReps, movie stars (!), sales,…
The last installment of our news roundup was full of positive news, with more funding, more profits, iHire, and even more M&A. You had to wonder - was it a freak event? Or a sign of more good news to…
The polar vortex has made an unwelcome reappearance in the Doctor's location - brrr! I hope it's avoiding you. On the other hand, activity in the job board and recruitment marketing industry continues at a pretty significant pace, with plenty…
When job boards get big - really big - they start acting like a really big job board - in other words, like a typical big company. What does that mean? Well... They are smarter than you: It's one of those…
Admit it - it's kind of a relief to draw the curtains on 2020, isn't it? Sure, some things happened that were good - but it seemed like more happened that was not so good. A deadly pandemic, worldwide recession,…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times for job board companies. 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…
It's been an interesting 4 weeks for the Doctor here in the Midwest - a derecho, power outages, searching for internet, and much much more! But at least Hurricane Laura missed me. The job board industry has been busy, too…
I normally wait a bit longer to do the industry news update - usually every 4 weeks or so - but there has been so many developments and announcements (Randstad, ouch!) that I decided to jump in early! You wouldn't…