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…
Hard to believe that it’s been a month since the last update – lots has happened! There are new financials, acquisitions, funding, and (unfortunately) a war that’s affecting Europe and much of our industry. So, without further ado, let’s see what’s been going on: Industry news related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Job aggregator Jooble…
As always, it’s been an eventful several weeks in our industry, with StackOverflow shutting down their job board, some rebranding, and lots of funding activity. Throw in some interesting Q4 financials and a few acquisitions, and you have good times for all! Let’s dig into it: HelloWork sees 39% growth: HelloWork group reported 71 million…
Time for the first news roundup of the new year – and amazingly enough, there is plenty of it! Facebook/Meta continues to lurch about, running afoul of privacy regulators around the world, and a new podcast is taking the job board world…
So it’s the end of 2021, and depending on your perspective, you’re either happy to see it go – or you’re feeling pretty good about how it went. That about covers it, right? It’s been an exciting year for the…
