Going to Jobg8 Nashville – see you there?
Hey folks, in a few months I am heading off to the Jobg8 Job Board Summit, July 26-27, in Nashville. Why? Well, they invited me to put together the agenda and speaker list - so I kind of thought I…
Hey folks, in a few months I am heading off to the Jobg8 Job Board Summit, July 26-27, in Nashville. Why? Well, they invited me to put together the agenda and speaker list - so I kind of thought I…
Geez! I can't believe it's been almost a year since I did a round up of new recruiting sites and services! So many services have risen, fallen, and been renamed. Well, I'm still going to give it a shot -…
You're in a crowded saloon. The biggest, baddest gunslinger is lounging at the bar, regaling his compatriots with stories of how big and bad he is, about his millions of followers and billions in revenue. Then the door swings open.…
Let's talk about an annual biz checkup, shall we? Operating a job board or recruitment marketing company can sometime feel like putting out a never-ending series of fires. Employer A's jobs aren't doing well. There aren't enough candidate signups in…
How much do you know about your clients, as in data? I mean, really know? I was recently reading an article about Larry Smarr and his attempts to completely document himself and his health. He carries it to an extreme that no…
Note: The Doctor is recovering from a bout with the flu - so this week we revisit the most popular post from 2017. Enjoy! Remember Google Base? Joel Cheesman does. "The company launched Google Base in the mid-2000s to much…
It's been a busy month in the recruitment marketing biz (when isn't it, actually?). Acquisitions, investments, and launches as usual - plus Monster's exit from APAC. Let's take a look at what happened: iCIMS acquires TextRecruit: iCIMS, one of the major ATSs, acquired…
If you read much recruiting and HR press (like I do), you inevitably run into something odd: there seems to be retention tension between what employers do and say. On the one hand, there are tons of articles extolling the gig…
A few weeks ago, I explored what the impending loss of net neutrality in the U.S. might mean for recruitment marketing sites and job boards. However, as this recent article points out, we can look to a few countries like…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is poised to vote on Dec. 14 to rescind the so-called net neutrality rules championed by former President Obama. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal would repeal rules that currently bar ISPs from blocking, slowing access to…