Over the years I've worked with a number of clients who are thinking about the next step. Sometimes that meant an acquisition. Sometimes that meant new staff, or additional marketing. But it usually meant - at its core - growth. These…
The weather isn't getting much warmer, but activity in the recruitment marketing biz certainly is (witness our first item on Vettery). We've seen new rounds of funding, launches, and acquisitions - and that's just in the last 4 weeks! So…
For the past couple of years, I've been keeping a list of job board and recruitment marketing industry 'transactions' - in other words, when companies buy and sell. (And in case you're wondering, I've counted 5 since the beginning of…
It's 2018 - do you know where your job board is? Oh, excuse me - your 'recruitment marketing solution' or perhaps your 'sourcing solution' or...well, you get the picture. I suspect that in 2018 we will see the continuing fade-out…
Even as holidays draw near, the recruitment marketing industry chugs along with more funding, more product releases - and even some news about LinkedIn (shock!). Seems like this industry also encourages the (ahem) creative names, eh? So without further ado,…
Things have been lively in our industry over the past few weeks - news from DHI, StackOverflow, Mya, LinkedIn, and more - and not always good news at that. So let's get to it: DHI loses money and Durney: DHI saw…
In order to break my habit of writing about Google Jobs, I decided it was time for another news roundup (plus the fact that it's been a month since the last one). Not surprisingly, things have been happening. Apparently the…
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…