2019 has been an impressive year for the job board and recruitment marketing world: lots of buying (can we say 'programmatic'?), lots of selling, and the continued expansion of both small and large sites - not to mention a raft…
We're coming up on the end of 2019 - and (not surprisingly) there is, as always, more news (and panes) to report. The job board and recruitment marketing industry has had a busy year. What did the last few weeks…
Maybe things will slow down in December? Or maybe not. They certainly haven't thus far, with a rebranding of Prime by Indeed, funding rounds by many different players, and Vimeo's entrance into the job board world. So without further ado,…
Conventional wisdom would have us believe that job boards and related services - now moving into their third decade of existence - are on the way out. They've been overwhelmed and pushed aside by technologies such as programmatic and AI.…
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?…
In 2018, I tracked 28 purchases/acquisitions/mergers, lots of money raised, some layoffs, some hiring, and a continued influx of startups into the recruitment marketing industry. In other words, a pretty good year in recruitment marketing. Let's take a closer look:…
If you are like me, you sift through 150 or so articles a day about the HR and recruiting industry, looking for trends in the noise that seem most relevant to our corner of it. Who got funding? What new…
So it's the end of the summer and not much is going on in recruitment marketing, except a new CEO at CareerBuilder and an UpWork IPO and...well, maybe there are a few things going on! Let's take a look at the latest:…
News this month from players big and small. Every time I think the recruitment marketing industry is starting to slow down, it gets busy again. I guess I should just get used to it! At any rate, let's take a…
I am by nature a skeptic and contrarian. In general, these tendencies have served me well in my various careers. But they also can result in situations where I am surrounded by folks who are making big claims, and who…