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…
At the TAtech conference in Denver, I had a brief conversation with Joel Cheesman about innovation. He challenged me to come up with any job boards or companies in recruitment marketing that were 'innovative'. I fumbled for an answer (as…
Sometimes it's useful to step back and generalize a little. I believe the appropriate cliche is 'you can't see the forest for the trees'. Whatever. Let's just say that if you don't have a good guiding principle for what your…
Hey everyone! It's that time - time for the 2017-18 Global Recruiting Site Trends survey! As always, I need your help to get it off the ground. In addition to the usual valuable info on what job boards and recruiting sites…
There is a tendency - in every industry, not just our own - to look past market complexity for the 'next big thing'. We're talking about ground-shaking, market-changing stuff - like maybe Monster, LinkedIn, Indeed, or (even) Google. Each one…
Note: The Doctor is taking a day off, so enjoy this post from last year - before Monster was sold to Randstad: Before I began this post, I had to pull my jaw off the ground. Yes, I had just learned…
What is a job board? Nowadays there are many sites that run from that description - after all, it's quite unfashionable. Yet many HR and recruiting industry professional continue to use the term, so it seems worth exploring (notwithstanding my own moniker!).…
I'm in the process of finishing the latest version of the Job Board Software Buyer's Guide (out hopefully next week). In between the time I first sent out surveys to the vendors and the time I started writing up the…
Way back in 1996, Vault launched as the first of the employer rating sites. It was the granddaddy! Then Glassdoor launched in 2008 (along with the help of about $3M in pre-launch financing). By 2015, it had a valuation of roughly $1B…
A fundamental challenge for our industry is discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job boards - and newspapers before them - tried to solve this problem: they tried to make it easier for candidates…