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…

There’s been no shortage of news over the past few weeks from companies big (Google) and not so big (Adzuna). Toss in a few industry conferences and you have a pretty interesting summer! Let’s see what’s happened lately: MeetFrank lands…

Note: The Doctor is heading off to Jobg8’s Summit in Nashville this week – and thus thought a repost of this would be a good idea. Enjoy! Hey folks, in a few months days I am heading off to the Jobg8…

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…

Job boards – both traditional and non-traditional – have historically had one primary purpose in life: to bring candidates and employers together. For the traditional boards, that meant advertising – lots of it. Think Monster’s Superbowl ads – or (more…

The dog days of summer are a misnomer in our industry. Some of the most interesting developments happen when it gets hot (Microsoft buys Github? LinkedIn adds assessments? you get the picture). This cycle is no different – lots of…

Remember full-serve 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 the…

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…

What do you get if you can’t articulate what you want? Sometimes you get a surprise, as in: ‘Just get me something that tastes good’, and you are presented with ‘liver an onions cooked 7 ways’ (apologies to those liver…

It is actually a bit insane how much has happened since my last news roundup! Recruit/Indeed seems to be bingeing on acquisitions, money is being raised by many at a fair clip, and Google is playing with the jobs stuff…

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…

Starting today, job seekers will no longer be able to import their profile to apply for a job on JobScore. Our Import with LinkedIn feature helped set an industry standard: it’s been live since 2008 and has been used by nearly half a million job seekers! Here’s what’s up: We’ve formalized and are extending our […]

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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…

This is starting to feel like World War I: ‘Great’ powers, aggressive tactics, and a desire for world domination. Yep, I’m talking about the recruitment marketing industry. In case you didn’t hear, Recruit bought Glassdoor last week. Many incisive analyses…

We’ve been working with customers who do business in the European Union to meet their GDPR compliance obligations prior to the May 25, 2018 deadline. We’ve just updated our articles on how JobScore is helping employers prepare for the GDPR and our GDPR checklist for recruiters and HR. We also just launched a self service […]

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As long as I’ve been in this industry, there have been the ‘big boys’. The companies that have grabbed attention, market share, and investment. Sites like Monster, OCC, LinkedIn, Indeed,  HotJobs, and CareerBuilder. They sought the #1 position and told…

Here in the northern hemisphere the grass is finally getting green and (occasionally) we have a nice sunny day. What’s it like where you are? Well, regardless of the weather, the growth of the recruitment marketing industry continues. Let’s see…

Hey folks, in a few months I am heading off to the Jobg8 Job Board Summit, July 26-27, in Nashville. Why? Well, they invited me to put together the agenda and speaker list – so I kind of thought I…

About a year ago, I offered a guide to conferences for recruitment marketing folks. Now I’m packing up to go to another conference, and it made me wonder: why go to conferences? Why not just stay home and keep working?…

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 –…