The polar vortex has made an unwelcome reappearance in the Doctor's location - brrr! I hope it's avoiding you. On the other hand, activity in the job board and recruitment marketing industry continues at a pretty significant pace, with plenty…
When job boards get big - really big - they start acting like a typical big company. What does that mean? Well... They are smarter than you: It's one of those 'totally obvious' arguments - their site is 10 million times…
I normally wait a bit longer to do the industry news update - usually every 4 weeks or so - but there has been so many developments and announcements that I decided to jump in early! You wouldn't think that…
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 news of our industry! Yet despite the virus (or because of?), I continue…
Although the job board and recruitment marketing industry is sizable - estimated at $22 billion worldwide - most of the companies involved are privately held. So when the few publicly held sites put out their quarterly reports, industry observers scrutinize…
2019 has been an impressive year for the job board and recruitment marketing world: lots of buying (can we say 'programmatic'?), lots of selling, and the continued expansion of both small and large sites - not to mention a raft…
If you're in South America, South Africa, or southern Australia, it's spring right now. However, if you're in Iowa (like me), winter has begun. So what better way to cope with the weather than to check out the latest news…
Flooding, storms, wind, and bugs - and that's just within a few miles of my house! Yes, welcome to summer. Our industry is just as lively, with numerous companies landing funding, others launching new services, and a few acquisitions here…
Conventional wisdom would have us believe that job boards and related services - now moving into their third decade of existence - are on the way out. They've been overwhelmed and pushed aside by technologies such as programmatic and AI.…
Apparently the Polar Vortex - although causing great misery in the Doctor's neck of the woods - had no effect on the recruitment marketing industry. There have been sales, funding rounds, layoffs, and much more. So what happened? Glad you…