As we move into Year 2 of the pandemic, some things have changed about the world and the job board market. There is not just one, but multiple vaccines that have been shown to greatly limit death or hospitalization due…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…