What exactly is a job board? Nowadays there are many sites that run from that description – after all, it’s quite unfashionable. Yet many HR and recruiting industry professional continue to use the term, so it seems worth exploring (notwithstanding my own…

In order to break my habit of writing about Google Jobs, I decided it was time for another news roundup (plus the fact that it’s been a month since the last one). Not surprisingly, things have been happening. Apparently the…

I’m in the process of finishing the latest version of the Job Board Software Buyer’s Guide (out hopefully next week). In between the time I first sent out surveys to the vendors and the time I started writing up the…

Way back in 1996, Vault launched. It was the granddaddy of all employer comparison sites. Then Glassdoor  launched in 2008 (along with the help of about $3M in pre-launch financing). By 2015, it had a valuation of roughly $1B (along with a total…

A fundamental challenge for our industry is discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job boards – and newspapers before them – tried to solve this problem: they tried to make it easier for candidates…

OK, so I finally got tired of writing about Google! Plus an amazing amount of stuff has been happening in our corner of the world economy. So it’s time to take a look at the wheelings and dealings of our…

Last week I walked through the Google Jobs initiative, which is comprised of a specific way of marking up job ads (and letting Google know you did), and the Cloud Jobs API, which addresses job search. There is a third…

I just spent a pleasant few days in New Orleans for the Jobg8 Job Board Summit, dodging a hurricane and eating crawfish etouffee. I also had a chance to listen to Tarquin Clark of Google and Scott Helmes of CareerBuilder…

Summer continues, conferences happen – and the job board and recruitment marketing biz is bubbling along. Our Amazon/Whole Foods equivalent? Probably the Google Jobs/Hire news. But there are plenty of other things going on, including some interesting funding. Let’s take…

Since the beginning of the year there have been dozens of recruiting startups, mergers, and acquisitions. Google is making a new foray into the jobs world. Indeed is trying to become a brand. Programmatic is taking more recruiting dollars, social…

Despite the recent hoopla about Google Jobs, the job board and recruiting site world continues to see a steady stream of new sites and services. One size obviously doesn’t fit all, and (to add to my cliches) there is always…

When shoes drop, they sometimes drop slowly. It was last fall when we first learned of Google’s Cloud Jobs API – and of certain job boards’ partnership in testing it. Then around the first of the year, we heard more of the API, inclu...

Note: The Doctor is out this week, soon to return. This is from 2015 and still extremely relevant, IMO. Enjoy!
 
I have no idea what you’re thinking. In fact, I can’t even see you. I guess I’m operating in the dark.
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The past month or so has been eventful in the recruitment marketing world – major players like Google, and SEEK are flexing their muscles, and AI continues to make big noise in the sector. So without further ado, let’s get to it!:

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Note: The Doctor is out for the next few weeks, helping his sister deal with her cancer. This is from a few years ago, but still quite relevant
Authenticity is all the rage. Supporters of both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders claim that their candidates...

Note: The Doctor is out for the next few weeks, helping his sister deal with her cancer. This is from last year, but still quite relevant, particularly given the progress with Google’s Cloud Jobs API!
I was discussing Indeed with some other folks...

Although studies have shown that companies with more diverse employees – both with regard to gender and ethnicity – tend to outperform their peers, actual progress by organizations has been slow. Why? Because (a) it’s hard to change ...

Remember Google Base? Joel Cheesman does. “The company launched Google Base in the mid-2000s to much fanfare.” And…it never went anywhere.
Then last year Google announced that they were working with CareerBuilder, Jibe, and Dice on a ...

There has been no shortage of activity in the job board and recruitment marketing world since our last roundup – just check out the first bullet below! I also find it interesting that investment dollars continue to flow in, albeit perhaps at a sl...

A long time ago I was the marketing director for a  publishing company. Apart from making sure that the ad sales team was happy, my job involved spending lots of money on direct mail to attract magazine subscribers. It was while doing this that I was...