Remember back to the pre-pandemic days - specifically, to 2017? That was the year that Google launched its Google for Jobs initiative. It promised to do for job search what it had previously done for shopping and travel: build a…
It's an interesting time in the job board and recruitment marketing industry. The pandemic has dampened demand for certain types of work, while creating additional demand for other types. The world's economies are limping along, trying to make it to…
Job boards began as digital translations of 'real world' objects: newspaper classifieds. The relatively low cost of entry meant that job boards soon proliferated. And from this crazy-quilt of sites grew the job board advertising wars, promoting destination job boards.…
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…
Over the past several weeks, I've proposed a few rules for designing an effective recruiting site or job board: remember that users aren't rational, and keep the focus on the candidate. Well, now it's time for the final rule (that's…
This the latest in a series of posts on how the job board industry has been responding to the pandemic - which I wished I could say is getting better, but doesn't seem to be. The world is opening up,…
In pandemic times, four weeks feels like four months - at least that's how long it feels to me regarding the last time I wrote about the funding and news of our industry! Yet despite the virus (or because of?),…
Although in many regards we're in a deep-freeze in terms of business, of course that's not totally the case. Our industry is part of the hiring and firing world - and most places are experiences firing, or at least no…
Before and after: that's how I (and many people I've spoken with) think about the global pandemic. Suffice it to say that my most recent 3 posts since the last news round up have focused relentlessly on how COVID-19 is…
Will March come in like a lion and out like a lamb? I have no idea, but I can tell you what happened in February! As is often the case in our industry, there was lots of funding, acquisitions, and a few…