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…
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…
As we move closer to the traditional holiday season, you might expect to see some slowdown in industry activity – after all, some folks actually take a few days off here and there! Well, if there is a slowdown, I’m…
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about whether or not a job board or recruiting site should have a resume database. Originally, almost every job board had resume databases – and they charged employers to access them. Some still…
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…
