Note: The Doctor is offsite this week with a client, so here is a post from 2009 (!!) that is still relevant.  If you’re looking for work, nothing can make you throw up your hands faster than a job board…

For many job boards, the candidate experience is the equivalent of a ‘one night stand‘. The candidate finds – or stumbles upon – the site, looks for a job, and applies for one (or more). Then the candidate goes his…

It’s time to take a look at some interesting (and new to me) sites and services out there. The last time I looked was a while back, and this being a growing industry, there are of course plenty more. So…

Programmatic ads have been around for a while in the consumer space. If you’ve been in a deep dark cave for the past 5 years (and if that’s the case, why are you reading this post?), a quick definition: programmatic…

There is – as always – plenty of news this month. But as you perhaps can guess from the title, the big news is Stepstone’s majority stake in Appcast. More in a minute. Just remember – big news can drop…

It’s interesting how 90 degrees feels even hotter when you’re 5,280 feet above sea level – at least that was my conclusion after spending a few days in Denver last month! The occasion was Jobg8’s 2019 Job Board Summit, and…

Note: The Doctor is in Denver at the Jobg8 Summit, so here is a post from earlier this year. Enjoy! Let’s face it – most of us in the industry are NOT LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, or Indeed. We just aren’t.…

When you’re a huge business like LinkedIn, part of an even bigger business – Microsoft, and as much a part of most recruiters’ days as Facebook is for the masses, you really have to work on experimenting. Why? Because every…

We’re excited to announce an integration with Paylocity, including the paylocity human resources platform and paylocity onboarding. When you hire candidates the integration adds an optional step to push information into Paylocity: The candidate will appear as a new hire in Paylocity and you can continue onboarding them: Users with the admin or owner access […]

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Flooding, storms, wind, and bugs – and that’s just within a few miles of my house! Yes, welcome to summer. Our industry is just as lively, with numerous companies landing funding, others launching new services, and a few acquisitions here…

Recruiting for many jobs at the same time can quickly fill up your email inbox, especially if you receive an email for every new applicant and scheduled interview. To minimize the number of emails you receive each day from JobScore, we’ve created a new-and-improved daily digest email. We’ve retired our old daily candidate digest and […]

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As I’m a (job board) doctor, I thought it was time for a quick biology lesson – and don’t fret, it does indeed have something to do with our industry! Here in the midwestern states of the U.S., elms were…

NOTE: As the Doctor is based in the U.S., he is recovering from Memorial Day – so here is a post from earlier this year that you may enjoy! First movers define categories. This is a given in marketing, and…

Back in 2008 and 2009 – a very long time ago, I realize – Monster had two data breaches. Roughly 2 million Monster users had their data exposed. The incidents received widespread exposure at the time, accompanied by lots of…

It’s May, which means a flurry of Q1 financial reports (see DHI, Upwork, and Axel Springer, below), and – depending on where you live – something resembling warm weather. Despite the length of this roundup, I actually left out several…

Conventional wisdom would have us believe that job boards and related services – now moving into their third decade of existence – are on the way out. They’ve been overwhelmed and pushed aside by technologies such as programmatic and AI.…

The on-demand labor world – better known as the gig economy – has been with us for a while now. Some of you run marketplaces focused on on-demand workers; others supply candidates to on-demand companies like Uber or DoorDash. Depending…

As you may (or may not) know, I work with the folks at Jobg8 on their North American summit – specifically, to put together the speakers and agenda for the gathering. I get ideas from others in the industry (who…

Funding has picked up again (see bullet #1, below), and some major players like Xing and Google are making some major moves. As you’ll see, activity is present around the globe – demonstrating once again that our industry is truly…

Think back to when you were young, attending a new school for the first time. Your nerves are on full alert, and you’re busy trying to read the new faces – to identify who might be a future friend, and to…