It's May, which means a flurry of Q1 financial reports (see DHI, Upwork, and Axel Springer, below), and - depending on where you live - something resembling warm weather. Despite the length of this roundup, I actually left out several…
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:…
Note: This is a re-up of a post from this summer. Enjoy! Job boards - both traditional and non-traditional - have historically had one primary purpose in life: to bring candidates and employers together. For the traditional boards, that meant…
Full disclosure: I worked at Dice (now DHI) from 1997 through 2000. I don't hold DHI stock, and have only fleeting contact with DHI personnel. Also, I'm not too excited about the DHI logo. So DHI, parent company of Dice,…
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…
There's been no shortage of news over the past few weeks from companies big (Google), in between (MeetFrank), and not so big (Adzuna). Toss in a few industry conferences and you have a pretty interesting summer! Let's see what's happened…
It is actually a bit insane how much has happened since my last news roundup! Recruit/Indeed seems to be bingeing on acquisitions, money is being raised by many at a fair clip, and Google is playing with the jobs stuff…