Yes, you read that right: online job ad revenue shrinks, at least according to a new report. Not the way I usually like to start the news roundup - and you'll see that plenty of sites are showing revenue growth…
By now you may have run into Google's AI overviews - summaries of text thrown up in answer to your query. Google rolled these overviews out to a certain number of search queries, although they haven't reveal which types of queries…
By now you've probably heard of the Indeed layoffs and Recruit's revenue decline. If not: Indeed laid off 1000 employees on May 13, a cut of about 8% of the total workforce. This follows a layoff in March of 2023…
Remember department stores? I do. I remember going to Hubbards, our local Texas version - riding up the escalator to the men's department on the 2nd floor, and of course the reverse path to the toy department in the basement.…
Huzzle raises funds - you heard right. Don't know what's up with the name, but sometimes this industry gets weird. It also turns out that LinkedIn continues to find new ways to squeeze more money out of their platform -…
AI and verification: the new job board peanut butter and jelly? OK, I'm stretching things a little (maybe a lot). But the reality is that when AI can mimic humans so well that deep fakes are often effective at fooling…
Many years ago as a marketing novice I learned the first rule of competing against giants: don't play their game. This was long before I entered the job board world. I was a marketing director at a niche publishing company…
It's always been the case that some folks retire, then go back to work. Why? Maybe they get bored in retirement. Perhaps they feel isolated. Or they find that they don't have as much money as they thought they would.…
If LinkedIn plays around, does that mean the rest of us will too, sooner or later? Interesting thought. As you might imagine, continued low unemployment and labor shortages are keeping the job board industry busy. Let's see what happened last…
Ok, this is hardly the first time that Glassdoor hurt its brand. Just scan through the company's history and you'll find plenty of examples where the tension between user anonymity and company enmity clashed over the site's landmark employer reviews.…