Ever since I read 'A Serf on Google's Farm', I've wanted to (a) draw it to your attention (read it!!), and (b) talk about the impact that the Facebook and Google monopolies have on our industry. The article has a…
The results are in from the latest edition of the 2017-18 Global Recruiting Site trends survey! This year we had - as always - great response from recruiting sites, job boards, and other recruitment marketing services from around the world.…
Google Jobs moves into beta, TAtech is now a memory, and Jobg8 London looms. Interesting, eh? Plus across much of the Northern Hemisphere we're moving into fall, which means, well, more changes in the recruitment marketing industry! So without further…
Hey everyone! It's that time - time for the 2017-18 Global Recruiting Site Trends survey! As always, I need your help to get it off the ground. In addition to the usual valuable info on what job boards and recruiting sites…
What is a job board? Nowadays there are many sites that run from that description - after all, it's quite unfashionable. Yet many HR and recruiting industry professional continue to use the term, so it seems worth exploring (notwithstanding my own moniker!).…
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…
Since the beginning of the year there have been dozens of recruiting startups, mergers, and acquisitions trying to address what employers want. Google is making a new foray into the jobs world. Indeed is trying to become a brand. Programmatic…
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…
The past month or so has been eventful in the recruitment marketing world - major players like Google, and SEEK are flexing their muscles, and AI continues to make big noise in the sector. Mergers are afoot. So without further…
Remember Google Base? Joel Cheesman does. "The company launched Google Base in the mid-2000s to much fanfare." And...it never went anywhere. Then last year Google announced that they were working with CareerBuilder, Jibe, and Dice on a Jobs API. That…