A fundamental challenge for our industry is candidate discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job boards - and newspapers before them - tried to solve this problem: they tried to make it easier…
There is news this time around for optimists (see HelloWork) and pessimists (see ZipRecruiter), but mainly, there is a little bit of everything: acquisitions, funding, legislation, and product launches. Unlike last month, at least there are no new layoffs (I…
Indeed changed its mind. First it said that its U.S. clients had to convert to the CPA model. Now it says that actually, they can still use CPC (although it has a new name, of course - 'branding'!). So what…
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 do,…
You knew that at some point I would weigh in on ChatGPT and job boards, didn't you? I mean, the topic is just too juicy! As you can probably guess, I'm 'AI-skeptical' and have been for a while; it seems…
The rise of pop psychology, beginning in the 1970s, spawned an endless series of books with titles like "I'm OK, You're OK" and "Emotional Intelligence" that continues to this day. The hallmark of such a book: take a simple psychological…
A new year and some new job industry board news! (Let me see how many additional times I can put 'news' in this paragraph...). Even as we see signs that hiring is softening in some areas, there are continued demands…
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 often feels that the longer I work in the recruiting industry, the less I see that is truly 'new'. This is neither an unusual or surprising insight, by the way. If you by chance are participating in an industry…
The world has suffered through the first (and second, and third) wave of COVID. Many people are vaccinated - many more are not. In the U.S. alone, over one million people have died from the virus, and the death toll…