Fasten your safety belts, this update is going to be a long one! The amount of acquisitions, funding, expansions, and so on is truly amazing this time around. Maybe it has something to do with spring? Anyway, let’s get started: Workrise tumbles: Austin unicorn Workrise laid off an unspecified number of employees as it exits…
Most job boards are privately held – that’s just a fact. It’s the same in most industries, actually. But when folks knock on my door asking about the size of the job board market, they are usually looking at the publicly-held job board companies like Indeed (actually, they are part of Recruit) and ZipRecruiter. When…
The perfect recruiting tool would not be a job board. It would not be a sourcing tool. It would not be an assessment tool. It would not be a candidate aggregator. It would not a programmatic ad network. It would never introduce bias. However… It would work equally well for recruiting in every location and profession. It would identify candidates based on…
And we thought 2020 was weird! 2021 proved to be a return to form for many job boards – and then some. With employers clamoring for candidates, but candidates still thinking hard about whether they wanted to actually return to…
The results are in – and things have changed a bit from 2020! Folks seem considerably more optimistic. The survey, which included respondents from every area of the globe – from North America to Africa, from the UK to Australia,…
You may have noticed that my news updates are usually about 4 weeks apart. I like to gather up what’s happened, give you a reliable rundown, and then talk about other things in the intervening weeks. But sometimes the news…
