Thinking like a job seeker
If you've read me for any length of time, you know that I believe job seekers are the driving force for our industry. They are why employers are willing to talk to us and willing to pay us. Their success…
Zip’s IPO, Turing’s bucks, and more: news of the job board and recruitment marketing industry
News is coming fast and furious this holiday season (such as Zip's IPO), and so I will unleash a (slightly) early round up of the latest job board and recruitment marketing news (Plus next week has at least a few…
Google for Jobs: no one likes you when you’re popular
Remember back to the pre-pandemic days - specifically, to 2017? That was the year that Google launched its Google for Jobs initiative. It promised to do for job search what it had previously done for shopping and travel: build a…
Buying, selling, AllyO, and My Ally: news of the recruitment marketing industry
Time flies when you're working on survey results! It seems like just yesterday when I was rounding up the industry news - not 4 weeks ago. Not surprisingly, a lot has happened since then - including moves by My Ally,…
The final rule for designing a recruiting site: keep it simple
Over the past several weeks, I've proposed a few rules for designing an effective recruiting site or job board: remember that users aren't rational, and keep the focus on the candidate. Well, now it's time for the final rule (that's…
Rule 1 for designing a recruiting site: users are not rational
Back in the early days of job boards - this would the dark ages of the 1990s - everyone put up their own version of what they thought a site should be. There were no dominant visual or functional models,…
Join me at the virtual Jobg8 summit!
As you've probably noticed, every important conference in our industry - from RecBuzz to TAtech and beyond - has gone virtual this year due to the pandemic. Well, surprise - so has the Jobg8 North American Summit. They're calling it…
Caucuses and job boards: a cautionary tale
Did you know the Doctor lives in Iowa? Well...he does. And a few weeks back, he participated in the famous Iowa Caucuses (perhaps for the last time? We shall see). You may have heard there were a few problems. But…
The top posts from 2019: what you really liked
Every week (well, more or less), a new JobBoardDoctor post appears. Some are more popular than others, which is why I've rounded up the tops posts from 2019. I've been doing this long enough to know that if I put…
Predictions for 2020: chaos, evolution, and heat
It's the end of the year, and while some folks have already done a year in review, others are looking at predictions for 2020 - others being 'me'. Yes, the end of the year is merely symbolic, and a 'year'…