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,…
Note: It’s a few days before Christmas and the Doctor is frantically wrapping packages. This is a replay from last year. Enjoy! It’s impossible to escape holiday music. Radio stations begin playing it in October September, Christmas muzak flows out from countless store…
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…
How much do you think about your job board UX? All the time? Or never? In my experience, I’ve found that job board site designers often expect people to act linearly – going from point A to point B, logically and…
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…
If you read my monthly news roundup (and if you don't, you should!), you have probably noticed that much of the content covers companies getting funding. Why? Well, for one thing, big (or even moderate) money is interesting. Funding can…
In 2023, any employer that is using Indeed (and let's be honest, that's a lot of employers) will be using the pay per application (PPA) model. Why? Because Indeed says so. OK, it's a bit more complex than that, and…
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,…