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…

Before a candidate can even think about finding a new job, they have to be aware that it is there. That the employer exists. That the employer is looking for someone to do something. If a candidate is completely unaware of the…

The job board industry has been around for about 25 years. In that time, it has essentially relied on two products: duration-based job ads, and access to resumes. Don’t believe me? Take a look at a random assortment of 50…

Did you think that just because it was February oozing into March that our industry would slow down? Well, if you did, you were wrong! Acquisitions and funding continue apace, and companies from outside the industry (think WeWork) are moving…

I was in Barcelona last week (I know, the life of a Doctor is hard :-)) attending and speaking at the RecPlus conference. It was an eye-opening experience – and one that I highly recommend. The content was top-notch, the…

Note: The Doctor is away at RecPlus this week, so enjoy this post from last year! 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.…

We are gradually rolling out workflow templates and interviews to all customers. You will receive a notice 2 days before these features are activated in your account, and another the day they are turned on. Your workflow is the cornerstone of a successful, efficient hiring process. JobScore’s workflow templates add flexibility and power by allowing […]

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We are gradually rolling out workflow templates and interviews to all customers. You will receive a notice 2 days before these features are activated in your account, and another the day they are turned on. We’ve made some improvements to help your team conduct interviews. Now, instead of adding notes after you talk to a […]

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One of the recurrent features of my consulting life is someone – a close friend, a new acquaintance, or a potential client – asking me: ‘So what exactly do you do?’. If I say, ‘Well, I’m a consultant’, that often…

Let’s face it – most of us in the industry are NOT LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, or Indeed. We just aren’t. Perhaps we’re on the road to getting much bigger (looking at you, ZipRecruiter) or perhaps we hope we’ll be acquired…

Forward Candidate is one of the oldest pages in JobScore. The page is not widely used, but those of you who do use it, love it… and have been asking us to make a few improvements for a while. Your primary requests are: Forward candidate templates that pre-populate text to use at different stages of […]

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Apparently the Polar Vortex – although causing great misery in the Doctor’s neck of the woods – had no effect on the recruitment marketing industry. There have been sales, funding rounds, layoffs, and much more. So what happened? Glad you…

Sometimes you need to hire multiple people at the same time for the same role – say 3 customer care representatives for a call center. Until today, to do this in JobScore you’d visit the hire candidate page and click to “keep hiring.” JobScore would create a copy of the job; move the hired candidate […]

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A couple of times a year I do a guest lecture in a college class at my alma mater that focuses on creative and non-traditional careers. It’s always interesting because it puts me in direct contact with some very smart soon-to-be…

First movers define categories. This is a given in marketing, and we have seen it over and over in our industry. The ‘classic’ job board is defined by Monster of the ’90s and ’00s – chock-full of job ads, interstitials,…