Last week I gathered revenue updates from a number of publicly held job boards to see if there was a common thread. This revenue roundup seemed to indicate there was - it seems that revenue is up (even for beleaguered…
Although much of the job board industry is privately held, there are enough publicly-owned companies to provide us with a sense of how thing are going - in other words, it's revenue time. The answer? Well, pretty good, actually -…
Sometimes (well, perhaps more often than not) I see news and trends and events that don't really merit a full post - but definitely are what I think of as interesting. So guess what? This is the official 'odds and…
The weather's hot in my neck of the woods - and the pace of activity in the job board industry is blistering. Big news on the funding and acquisitions front this time, plus lots of other interesting tidbits (like Doximity!).…
As a mentor of mine often told me, 'It's not what they say, it's what they do.' She was trying to help me in my efforts to be a better salesperson - but her observation holds for the job board…
After the nadir of the pandemic, the current hiring frenzy feels pretty good, right? Most of the folks in the industry that I talk to are seeing big increases in candidate and employer activity. Investments are also rising, as are…
Speaking of a revenue model - one of the most popular posts I've written is about generating revenue. So my readers are interested in making money - go figure! A smart blogger would have immediately written more posts about revenue…
It's only been a few weeks since the last roundup, but there have been acquisitions, mergers, 51Job going private, and quarterly reports a-plenty! All this, plus Eightfold's massive fund raise - so rather than blather on, let's get to the…
I always smile when I hear a news report about the 'labor market' - as if a thing so vast and and full of complexity could ever be described easily. If you're in our industry, you know that 'unemployment' is…
As with most industries, the recruiting industry is partial to faddish names and acronyms. ATS, PPC, 'talent pipeline', RPO, 'hiring marketplace', PPA, platforms, and so on, and so on. As systems grow in complexity, so do the names describing them…