Although I'm hardly a LinkedIn fan-boy, I've found their strategy since acquisition by Microsoft quite interesting. As many predicted, they've become enmeshed with Microsoft's various enterprise products. But they've also continued to grow their own product via what I call incremental…
If you read a lot of HR blogs and magazines - like I do - you will notice a lot of 'forecasts': '12 key trends in HR for 2017'; '6 technologies that will change recruiting'; and so on. Heck, I've…
That's right, it's Google Jobs again! Last week I walked through the Google Jobs initiative, which is comprised of a specific way of marking up job ads (and letting Google know you did), and the Cloud Jobs API, which addresses…
When shoes drop, they sometimes drop slowly. It was last fall when we first learned of Google's Cloud Jobs API (also know as Google Jobs) - and of certain job boards' partnership in testing it. Then around the first of…
It's true - focus drives function. An example: many years ago, Lloyd Linn, the then-owner of Dice, told me something that I have never forgotten: "If you don't have candidates, you won't have employers." In other words, without candidates, job…
Before we get into recruiting site conferences, did you notice that sly 'recruiting site' mention in the title? I didn't say 'job board'! And me - the JobBoardDoctor! What is the world coming to? Well, if you read this blog…
Remember department stores? I do. I remember going to Hubbards, our local version - riding up the escalator to the men's department in the 2nd floor, and of course the reverse path to the toy department in the basement. You…
I was discussing Indeed with some other folks at the JobG8 conference (what a surprise, right?), and one person made a comment that really stuck with me. "Google can wreck Indeed's business anytime they want, simply by changing their search…
I've written about Indeed's transformation in North America several times over the past five years. It added resumes, ridded itself of job board customers, and ramped up a direct sales force to tackle employer sales. It was famously acquired by the…
Remember social recruiting? It was huge in 2010. Big. Awe-inspiring. Going to change the face of recruiting as we knew it, and of course eliminate all other recruiting methods. As CareerXRoads says, it is no longer tracked separately in their…