I was in Barcelona last week (I know, the life of a Doctor is hard :-)) attending and speaking at the RecPlus conference. It was an eye-opening experience - and one that I highly recommend. The content was top-notch, the…
One of the recurrent features of my consulting life is someone - a close friend, a new acquaintance, or a potential client - asking me: 'So what exactly do you do?'. If I say, 'Well, I'm a consultant', that often…
First movers define categories. This is a given in marketing, and we have seen it over and over in our industry. The 'classic' job board is defined by Monster of the '90s and '00s - chock-full of job ads, interstitials,…
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…
Ah, conferences - fighting with hotel Wifi, getting lost late at night trying to find your room, or reaching the free food table just a few minutes after they take the goodies away. Yet still we go because a good…
Seven years ago a job site for female millennials launched. It was called The Daily Muse. Fast forward to now - there was a name change (The Muse), an injection of $30 million dollars, massive growth, and voila!: the site…
The results are in! Nearly 200 job boards, recruitment marketing companies, and related businesses responded to this year's survey. As always, I think you'll find their answers interesting and useful. Here are a few of the findings: Lack of candidates…
Although most of the attention in recruitment marketing these days is on Google, Facebook, and Indeed, there is another big player: LinkedIn. In fact, long before we were shaking in our (virtual) boots over Google's or Indeed's latest moves, LinkedIn…
It's been a while - but not too long - since I've looked at new sites and services in the recruitment marketing world. New ones roll out all the time, so I thought it was worth a look at some…
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…