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…
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…
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…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Lars Peter Svane of EuroJobSites. His multi-site company tackles different niches in the European job market, and has been successful for decades. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter discover how Lars managed to…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, I talk to Olivier Breton of Niceboard, a job board software platform (Steven is out on a family medical emergency). Started during the pandemic and the output of his own job board, Niceboard is a low-cost but full-featured…
If you haven't been marooned on a desert island for the past week, you probably heard about two major legal changes in the U.S. The country's Supreme Court greatly expanded access to handguns in one ruling, and eliminated Federal protection…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Mike Woodrow of Aspen Tech Labs. The company, which has staff in multiple locations including Colorado and Ukraine, provides key software for the job board industry: job feeds, job spidering, and job…
It's been a challenging few years, hasn't it? First a worldwide pandemic, which in turn caused an economic crash, which was followed by an economic boom, which fueled an already-existing labor crunch. The shortage of workers (or workers with the…
The Doctor is out this week, watching his daughter get her masters degree. This post first appeared five (!) years ago - but it's still relevant. Read on... There is a tendency – in every industry, not just our own…