At the recent IAEWS meeting, several of you came up and mentioned that you enjoyed these monthly news roundups. Thanks! They are actually pretty time consuming to put together, but I find them useful as a scorecard for where our…
What's going on in the job board and online recruiting industry - and perhaps with CareerBuilder? Well, a lot, actually. It's almost like no one takes a vacation around here (including the JobBoardDoctor). Nonetheless - let's take a look-see at…
Just a month has passed since the last update, but as you probably guessed, plenty has happened with regard to IPOs in the job board industry. Let's find out what: Another LinkedIn, only European: Shapr is coming out of beta.…
The job board industry is (and has been) in transition. Startups are sprouting faster than crabgrass in spring, venture funding is flowing in, and existing players are expanding. Yet at the same time, some sites are fading. The industry growth…
It feels like 2014 was the year that VC money returned to the job board industry. Each month brought more news of investments and funding (not to mention some pretty substantial growth by existing players). So let's take a journey…
Fall is most definitely in the air, as in leaves falling to the ground and making it hard to mow. But fall also means conferences for job board folks and (of course) deals, deals, deals! So without further ado, here…
You know, I keep thinking that I won't lead off with news of VC money for one of these news roundups - and then it happens again. I guess it means that recruiting continues to be hot, and the services…
Almost everyone in the job board industry either uses aggregators - or has in the past. It's just a fact of job board life. But recent developments (LinkedIn and Monster aggregating job postings) and the ascension of Indeed to the…
During my work life, first in the software industry, next in the publishing industry, and finally in online recruiting, I've noticed some ongoing behavioral characteristics that seem to cut across many types of business. For example, there are always the…
A couple weeks back, a short article ran in ERE about Indeed: the world's largest job search engine is investing in a multi-million dollar advertising campaign to raise awareness of its brand and services. Now, why does that sound familiar?…