Some interesting developments over the past month, including a new round of financials from the publicly-held job boards and some VC money going into the market - in other words, lots of job board money. Let's take a look: Work4…
Winter is fading (kind of) and plenty has happened during the past month and a half. So pull out your t-shirts and sandals, and let's take a look at the latest in the online recruiting and job board world!: Surprise!…
The first hints of fall are in the air - unless you live in south Texas or Florida, that is. The world of online recruiting, however, has not taken either a summer or fall break. LinkedIn in particular seems to…
It's summer - hot, sultry, and full of online recruiting activity. Here in Iowa we've gone from spring floods to drought in just 45 days (looks like the floods moved to Missouri). So without further ado, let's see what's been…
Things have been happening in our neck of the industry, and it's about time I ran them down. And yes, theoretically it's almost spring, although you'd never know it from the snowfall we had today! So with further ado, the…
Hey, it's a new year, which means - well, I don't know! But some stuff did happen in the past 30-40 days, so let's take a look at how the industry is faring: Quora and LinkedIn integrate: In a StackOverflow-like…
Hey, it's the end of the year (almost) and time to take a look at the 10 mind-blowing earth-shattering things that happened in 2012. Did anything? Well, actually, yes - quite a bit. Apart from an election, a (slowly) recovering…
Ok, the election is in the rearview mirror, winter is looming, and I bet you haven't gotten all of your Christmas presents yet! Nevertheless, things keep happening in the job board world. For example: Facebook launches their job board aggregator: Facebook…
This brief history of job boards isn't complete by any means, but thanks to John Sumser, Eric Shannon, Wikipedia, Chris Russell, and others, it covers the basics (I hope!). Amazing how far we've come in 22 years! [Want to…
Facebook launched its long-rumored job board turkey, umm, offering last week. It was a bit rocky: " It’s buggy and kind of janky looking.” - FB user Mike Chapman (and thank you, Mike, for introducing me to a new, useful word!) "The entire platform…