Industry news about the job board and recruitment marketing sector
If 2020 was the year of collapse and rebirth, then 2021 was the year of bounce-back. So what was 2023? For many job boards, it was the best year ever. Combine labor shortages, continuing demand for goods and services, a major land…
It's the end of the year - but not the end of job board industry news. Strange thing, that - the clock just keeps ticking on, doesn't it? In addition to a confirmation that Jobs on Facebook is really, really dead,…
Well, hardly anything has happened since the last roundup - except for a major election in the U.S., thousands of layoffs at Meta and Twitter, and lots of positive (and a few negative) financial reports from job boards around the…
The results are in – and things have changed a bit from 2021! Folks seem considerably more optimistic about their businesses - although perhaps not so optimistic about the economy. The survey, which included respondents from every area of the globe…
Amid reports of market softening but also lots of acquisitions, I have also seen what I would call 'employer swapping' - workers who are laid off by one company being immediately recruited to work at another company. Why? Well, folks,…
As we get deeper into September, we're seeing continued positive revenue growth from most - not all - job boards and recruitment sites, just like last time. Yes, of course companies are still raising money, and buying each other, and…
Snagajob, the Richmond, Virginia-based job board for hourly workers, laid off about 40 employees in the past week. According to CEO Mathieu Stevenson, “We recently had to make difficult decisions that impacted approximately 40 individuals in Richmond in response to…
A lot of job board news has happened since the last news roundup! So much for the dog days of summer, eh? Of course, it's not summer everywhere (looking at you, Australia!), so maybe that why things have been lively…
There has never been a large number of conferences aimed at the job board and recruitment marketing industry. Unlike the HR sector, where you can't go three weeks without bumping into a HR conference, the job board industry has had…
A veritable flood of financial reports for Q2 2022 just came out, and they are - in a word - up. Now, remember that these summaries are by definition backward-looking, but it appears that despite worries in certain sectors about…