It's been a while since I looked at different and unusual sites and services - I think the pandemic threw me off my game! But new things launch all the time, and some of them definitely stray from the path…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Lee Biggins of CV Library, a fixture on the UK job board scene for decades, about how he has used reinvention to succeed. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter ask…
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…
In this JobBoardGeek episode, we talk to Kasia Lynch of Nihongo Jobs, who has tackled an important but challenging market: Japanese-speaking job seekers in the U.S. How's that for a niche? Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter ask Kasia about how…
As always, it's been an eventful several weeks in our industry, with StackOverflow shutting down their job board, some rebranding, Upwork making bankd, and lots of funding activity. Throw in some interesting Q4 financials and a few acquisitions, and you…
This episode of JobBoardGeek investigates how Matt Lucas of JobMonkey turned a summer job in Alaska's fisheries into a series of books and a job board empire. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter pepper Matt with questions -…
Job boards - like almost all other businesses - have a tendency to look and function a certain way; in other words, they lack differentiation. Call it the default 'operating mode'. This is partly because of customer expectations (usually set…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, host Jeff Dickey-Chasins and co-host Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter talk with Jennifer Johansson of Placed, a mobile-first recruiting site that targets workers with no CV in the hospitality, retail, and care sectors in the…
Is there a hiring lesson from Japan out there? Well, employers throughout much of the world are facing a hiring problem: they have more jobs than people willing to do them. This problem is nothing new - it existed before…
In this episode, 3 job board geeks, host Jeff Dickey-Chasins, co-host Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter, and Dave Jenkins, of Wave chat - or 'geek out'. Dave, a veteran of the U.K. recruiting scene, digs into why programmatic is slow…