As we head into the final weeks of 2024, there are certainly shades of guidance in this week's news to help drive our 2025 Be on The Look Out (BOLO) for list. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Expects Continued…
Starting the final sprint of the fall conference season, I caught up with familiar faces at the second annual RecFest USA festival. And because Human Resources and Talent Acquisition conferences are never-ending, I’ll be reuniting with more new and old...err..mature…
The news is rolling in - witness the items on Toptal and Freelance.ca acquisitions. So I'm putting in an extra news edition to handle it! Be sure to check out the final item on Jobright with an interesting application of…
By now you may have run into Google's AI overviews - summaries of text thrown up in answer to your query. Google rolled these overviews out to a certain number of search queries, although they haven't reveal which types of queries…
Huzzle raises funds - you heard right. Don't know what's up with the name, but sometimes this industry gets weird. It also turns out that LinkedIn continues to find new ways to squeeze more money out of their platform -…
AI and verification: the new job board peanut butter and jelly? OK, I'm stretching things a little (maybe a lot). But the reality is that when AI can mimic humans so well that deep fakes are often effective at fooling…
If LinkedIn plays around, does that mean the rest of us will too, sooner or later? Interesting thought. As you might imagine, continued low unemployment and labor shortages are keeping the job board industry busy. Let's see what happened last…
Zip, DHI, Recruiter, and Freelancer down? Is this news roundup going to be a total bummer? Not exactly. As you'll see, others like CrowdWorks, Upwork, Fiverr, and HelloWork are doing just fine. A tale of two job board industries? Perhaps.…
Google backs off? I guess I wasn't as surprised as some folks - but perhaps I'm just too cynical! Still, the apparent retreat of the Google job ads offering was only one bit of a lot of news in the…
Job board AI implementations are picking up - as I thought they might. I last wrote about this in July, and since then I've seen a steady wave of AI-related announcements. Some of this is just 'getting on the bandwagon',…