I was in Barcelona last week (I know, the life of a Doctor is hard :-)) attending and speaking at the RecPlus conference. It was an eye-opening experience - and one that I highly recommend. The content was top-notch, the…
Note: The Doctor is away at RecPlus this week, so enjoy this post from last year! As long as I've been in this industry, there have been the 'big boys'. The companies that have grabbed attention, market share, and investment.…
One of the recurrent features of my consulting life is someone - a close friend, a new acquaintance, or a potential client - asking me: 'So what exactly do you do?'. If I say, 'Well, I'm a consultant', that often…
Let's face it - most of us in the industry are NOT LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, or Indeed. We just aren't. Perhaps we're on the road to getting much bigger (looking at you, ZipRecruiter) or perhaps we hope we'll be acquired…
Apparently the Polar Vortex - although causing great misery in the Doctor's neck of the woods - had no effect on the recruitment marketing industry (or Vangst!). There have been sales, funding rounds, layoffs, and much more. So what happened?…
A couple of times a year I do a guest lecture in a college class at my alma mater that focuses on creative and non-traditional careers. It's always interesting because it puts me in direct contact with some very smart soon-to-be…
First movers define categories. This is a given in marketing, and we have seen it over and over in our industry. The 'classic' job board is defined by Monster of the '90s and '00s - chock-full of job ads, interstitials,…
Back in October I took a look at some new and interesting recruitment offerings. Well jeez, that was last year! So I figured it was time to take another look at what has been popping up in our industry. In…
Welcome to 2019! This marks the JobBoardDoctor's 10th year publishing news, opinions, and providing consulting services. It's been fun - and I hope (occasionally) informative. Here's to another 10 years! In the meantime, our industry continues forward. A survey came…
Ah, conferences - fighting with hotel Wifi, getting lost late at night trying to find your room, or reaching the free food table just a few minutes after they take the goodies away. Yet still we go because a good…