Just a month has passed since the last update, but as you probably guessed, plenty has happened in the job board industry. Let’s find out what:

Another LinkedIn, only European: Shapr is coming out of beta. The site limits the number of people yo...

The job board industry is (and has been) in transition. Startups are sprouting faster than crabgrass in spring, venture funding is flowing in, and existing players are expanding. Yet at the same time, some sites are fading. The industry growth is not u...

LinkedIn reported another winning quarter this afternoon, bringing in $643 million in the last three months of 2014, with recruiting sales accounting for 57.4 percent of the total.
Both the revenue, and the company’s adjusted earnings per share o...

A job ad on graphic-jobs.com, placed by a company called NSL Studio, has been taken down, after one line in the ad said non-Jewish candidates are preferred. (more…)

This week’s guest post was sparked by my post last week on matching. Paul Basile is CEO of Matchpoint Careers, a matching service that uses psychometrics to help employers hire better candidates. Hope you enjoy!
The greatest service any job board...

For the past two years, we (i.e., anyone going to job board conferences) have known that Elevated Careers, the eHarmony job board, is coming. Dr. Steve Carter has given numerous talks about the technical and logistical challenges in building a sophist...

We’re already into 2015, and as you might guess, the job board and online recruiting industry is staying busy.

Dice goes for billboards: In a back to the future moment, Dice is running 50 foot billboards in Silicon Valley featuring ‘real&#...

Two ex-Goldman Sachs employees are launching a new site for recruiting minorities.
Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams of Jopwell have already gotten interest from some big-name firms like Facebook and McKinsey.
Jopwell is offering a searchable pool of...

Hey everyone! Once again, the IAEWS and Job Board Doctor have teamed up for the 2014-15 Job Board Trends survey – but we need your help to get it off the ground. In addition to the usual valuable info on what job boards are doing (and planning ...

I personally think the idea of New Year’s resolutions are kind of dumb. If you only manage to come up with goals once a year, of course you’re going to break them.  Behavioral change happens through repetition – daily, weekly, pluggi...

I personally think the idea of New Year’s resolutions is kind of dumb. If you only manage to come up with goals once a year, of course you’re going to break them.  Behavioral change happens through repetition – daily, weekly, pluggi...

It’s that time of the year, when everyone and their uncle is either looking back, telling you what happened, or looking forward and predicting the future. I like the old Magic 8 ball as much as the next guy, so I’ve decide to throw my hat...

It feels like 2014 was the year that VC money returned to the job board industry. Each month brought more news of investments and funding (not to mention some pretty substantial growth by existing players). So let’s take a journey back and look a...

A career site called Shine is running an ad campaign highlighting its 220,000 job posts and overall suite of services, such as employment branding. The star is a mouse. (more…)

Last week I put on my virtual job seeker hat to immerse myself in the current world of job search.It kinda sucked.Step 1: I picked a job title that I know fairly well – marketing director. Step 2: I started where most job seekers start – on...

Although the title of this article promises five reasons why your job posts aren’t working, there is really one big reason: The best candidates always come through referrals. As a matter of fact, that’s where we get roughly 80 percent of our candid...

December is here, and as you might guess, activity has continued unabated in the online recruiting and job board world. Let’s see what’s happened lately: Indeed goes public, kind of: Recruit, the parent company of Indeed, went public in O...

With over 300 million profiles and presence in 200 countries, LinkedIn seems to be the dominant player for global recruitment. But there is competition from a new kid on the block. Indeed. With a presence in 50 countries, 28 languages, millions of CVs,...

Theoretically, I shouldn’t be doing another roundup of new sites so quickly after the last one – but you know what? There is so much happening in our industry right now, I thought, to heck with that! I’m gonna do another one anyway! ...

Remember when LinkedIn used to say it wasn’t a job board? Oh, wait – I guess they still do. Yet if you ask a room of HR professionals that question, the answer is crystal clear: “Of course LinkedIn is a job board!”Well, I would ...