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…
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…
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…
A fundamental challenge for our industry is discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job boards – and newspapers before them – tried to solve this problem: they tried to make it easier for candidates…
Before I began this post, I had to pull my jaw off the ground. Yes, I had just learned that Monster paid $12.5M for Jobr. That’s right. An app that Monster actually spec’d out to build at $250K. So why did they do it? An unhealthy obsessio…
I’ve been covering the job board world in this blog since 2009. During that time, I’ve covered lots of startups. I thought it might be interesting to go back and see how many are still around. You could call this an inspirational – or…
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…
