NOTE: The Doctor is out this week, checking out the new TATech Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. In the meantime, here’s a rerun from this summer:
I was discussing Indeed with some other folks at the JobG8 conference (what a surprise, right?),...

The news was surprising: Tegna was putting CareerBuilder up for sale. Tegna, which owns 53% of the job board (along with Tronc (aka Tribune) and McClatchy) stated that it wanted more ‘financial flexibility’. In other words, time to cash out...

Remember department stores? I do. I remember going to Hubbards, our local version – riding up the escalator to the men’s department in the 2nd floor, and of course the reverse path to the toy department in the basement. You could get pretty...

Other than Monster getting sold to Randstad, nothing has happened in our industry recently, right? Umm….well, actually, a ton of stuff has gone down! So let’s take a look and see what’s what:

Glassdoor drops the ball: Turns out that...

So, finally, it happened. Randstad, the international staffing behemoth, bought Monster last week for $429 million. Yep, million. As in several hundred million less than Monster’s 2015 gross revenues.
Ow.
There was a lot of analysis, some of it ...

Although I looked at new sites a month ago, here I am again with a new batch. Why? Well, honestly, because our industry seems quite prolific in generating new businesses! As is often the case, I will be including some sites that are in the online recru...

NOTE: The Doctor is off this week, enjoying some R&R. This is a repeat of a post from last year that is still quite relevant. Enjoy!
A few years back during the deep, dark recession, a few articles appeared about zombie job boards (not to mention j...

NOTE: The Doctor is off this week, enjoying some R&R. This is a repeat of a post from the spring that is still quite relevant. Enjoy!
I’ve written about Indeed’s transformation in North America several times over the past five years. I...

It’s that time again – time to round up what’s happening in the job board and online recruiting industry. No summer doldrums here, though – things continue to move apace. So let’s get started:

JobAndTalent lands massive i...

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I was discussing Indeed with some other folks at the JobG8 conference (what a surprise, right?), and one person made a comment that really stuck with me.
“Google can wreck Indeed’s business anytime they want, simply ...

Although there are mixed signals on the overall economy, the recruiting industry continues to sprout new job boards and job-board-like sites. It’s been a couple of months since my last roundup, so I thought it was time to take a look at what is n...

Wind, lightning, rain, and tens of thousands of soccer fans ‘sheltering in place’ at Soldier field. Just another lazy Wednesday in Chicago!
The next day, me and over a hundred other folks jammed into the downtown Chicago Hilton for the ann...

Last week was a big week for industry news – and pundits. Everyone had something to say about LinkedIn and Microsoft.
Except…me.
Why did I wait? Well, I was getting ready for this week’s JobG8 conference (branding and sales workshops,...

No one can say that our industry is boring! Sure, the recent SH sale is a bit of inside baseball, but hey – this entire blog is pretty ‘inside baseball!’. So I say, let’s get job-board-geeky and see what’s been happening:
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The most common question I’ve heard in the last two job board conferences (apart from ‘where is the bar?’) is: What is programmatic advertising? You have to admit, the phrase is a bit off-putting – we know about ads, but what is...

It’s the kind of letter you don’t want to send or receive:
“First, on behalf of the entire Simply Hired team I would like to thank you for your partnership. We have appreciated working with you and your clients.  I am writing you t...

The gig economy is going to be ‘huuuge’, or so many speakers at the recent TAtech conference told us. It will comprise 40% (!) of the entire labor market…in 4 years. It will ‘change the face’ of employment. And yes –...

It’s been a bit longer than usual since my last news roundup, so this missive may be rather packed. View it as your morning pick-me-up high density news sandwich. Or something like that. Ahem. Anyway, let’s get started:

Not so smart: Dav...

Note: The Doctor is away for a bit – his mother died quite unexpectedly. The following is from the archives, and has great relevance for both him – and hopefully you. Please enjoy:
One of my closest friends had a stroke last week. He is 58....

On April 16th and 17th roughly 200 job boarders, vendors, and hangers-on descended on the Walt Disney Dolphin, smack dab in the middle of a certain theme-park. Opening day also happened to coincide with a big marathon, some rain, and (of course) hordes...