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…
Note: This is a re-up of a post from this summer. Enjoy! Job boards - both traditional and non-traditional - have historically had one primary purpose in life: to bring candidates and employers together. For the traditional boards, that meant…
If you are like me, you sift through 150 or so articles a day about the HR and recruiting industry, looking for the ones that seem most relevant to our corner of it. Who got funding? What new product was…
There's been no shortage of news over the past few weeks from companies big (Google) and not so big (Adzuna). Toss in a few industry conferences and you have a pretty interesting summer! Let's see what's happened lately: MeetFrank lands…
Job boards - both traditional and non-traditional - have historically had one primary purpose in life: to bring candidates and employers together. For the traditional boards, that meant advertising - lots of it. Think Monster's Superbowl ads - or (more…
As long as I've been in this industry, there have been the 'big boys'. The companies that have grabbed attention, market share, and investment. Sites like Monster, OCC, LinkedIn, Indeed, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder. They sought the #1 position and told…