Hey everyone! It's that time of the year - time for the 2018-19 Global Recruiting Site Trends survey! As always, I need your help to get it off the ground. In addition to the usual valuable info on what recruiting sites…
Note: The Doctor is on a much-needed vacation this week. So enjoy this post from 2017 - and get ready for fall! Since the beginning of the year there have been dozens of recruiting startups, mergers, and acquisitions. Google is…
To paraphrase a well-known movie/book, conferences are like a box of chocolates - you don't know what you'll get until you try one. Or something like that. The Jobg8 Summit last week in Nashville was a nice mix of old…
Remember a few years back, when social media recruiting was all the rage? It was going to change the face of recruiting. Revolutionize how recruiting was done. Make old methods of recruiting obsolete. Social media recruiting was the hot new…
Remember full service gas stations? Most of us 'of a certain age' do. You'd pull up, an attendant (usually teenage and bored) would appear, ask you how much gas you wanted, then would proceed to clean your windshield and pump…
As an industry, we have always been the beneficiary of employers' hiring anxiety. Why would they bother to use a job board or recruiting service if they weren't at least a little bit anxious about their own abilities to fill…
Note: The Doctor is recovering from the holiday (and too much house painting!). Enjoy this still-relevant post from last year: A fundamental challenge for our industry is discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job…
Although I'm hardly a LinkedIn fan-boy, I've found their strategy since acquisition by Microsoft quite interesting. As many predicted, they've become enmeshed with Microsoft's various enterprise products. But they've also continued to grow their own product via what I call incremental…
Geez! I can't believe it's been almost a year since I did a round up of new recruiting sites and services! So many services have risen, fallen, and been renamed. Well, I'm still going to give it a shot -…
If you read much recruiting and HR press (like I do), you inevitably run into something odd: there seems to be retention tension between what employers do and say. On the one hand, there are tons of articles extolling the gig…