Happy Friday Job Board Doctor friends! The Job Board Doctor team is wrapping up a great week in Nashville. The weather was sunny, and the content was flowing at RecFest. What’s on my mind this week? Appcast layoffs Facebook Jobs…
The Metaverse is dead, haven't you heard? It's not 'officially dead' - yet - but for all intents and purposes, it has joined the long line of over-hyped and under-performing tech that was promised to 'revolutionize everything'. Nothing like pumping…
It's the time of the year when everyone - even doctors - are making predictions. I have done it in the past (last year turned out reasonably accurate), but I do so with plenty of caveats (my favorite: 'No one…
It's the end of the year - but not the end of job board industry news. Strange thing, that - the clock just keeps ticking on, doesn't it? In addition to a confirmation that Jobs on Facebook is really, really dead,…
So it's the end of 2021, and depending on your perspective, you're either happy to see it go (i.e., Facebook) - or you're feeling pretty good about how it went. That about covers it, right? It's been an exciting year…
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…
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…
It feels like 2021 may be picking up some bad habits from 2020, starting with five acquisitions. Let's hope that changes soon! The job board industry ended the year with a decent number of acquisitions and consolidation, and January has…
Seems like Facebook has been trying to tackle recruiting for a long time - and in fact, they have, over and over. I wrote about them in 2012, and again in 2018, plus many, many updates in the news posts…
It's the end of the year, and while some folks have already done a year in review, others are looking at predictions for 2020 - others being 'me'. Yes, the end of the year is merely symbolic, and a 'year'…