Earlier this year I had the good fortune to attend the JobG8 Job Board Summit for North America. It was an interesting conference, full of useful insights about new and developing technologies, as well as clear-eyed looks at challenges for…
What if you had a service - say, a job board/candidate acquisition/employer service - and no one knew about it? How long do you think you'd stay in business? Countless job boards (and other web-based businesses) disappeared during the past…
Hey, it's the end of the year (almost) and time to take a look at what happened in 2012. Did anything? Well, actually, yes - quite a bit. Apart from an election, a (slowly) recovering economy, and a snazzy new…
It's been a busy couple of weeks - first we discovered that Recruit bought Indeed, then Doostang bought JobFox, and then many of the heavyweights in the online recruiting world rolled into Chicago for HR Tech. Geez! What's next? Rather…
Being a full time consultant is wonderful - I have the opportunity to work with hundreds of interesting clients, tackle unusual and cutting edge projects, and yes, get paid for it. But there is a drawback - although I'm in…
Hey everyone - I will be hosting a webinar on October 10th at 2 pm EDT / 1 pm CDT. Click here to register.This event, which comes courtesy of RealMatch, examines the current state of mobile recruiting and its implications…
BranchOut was one of the earliest 'job hunting' apps available on Facebook, and it has parlayed its early mover advantage into significant signups (25 million users and counting) and investments from venture capitalists (they picked up another $25 million last…
A few months back I examined 7 Android apps for job search - in fact, I even liked a few! As mobile apps continue to spread throughout the job search universe, I thought it would be useful to take a…
I was fortunate enough last week to talk with Peter Clayton of Total Picture Radio about my post a few weeks ago. We talked about the non-death of job boards, Monster, LinkedIn, matching, .jobs, and a bunch of other things.…
As another year draws to a close, it's time to take a look back at the year that 2011 was (man, that was truly an awkward construction, eh?). As usual, there was much sturm and drang about social media, the…