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…
As you already know because you're in the thick of it, the recruitment marketing industry has been morphing and evolving significantly over the past 5 years. Companies have been bought and sold. Buying habits are changing. And hundreds of millions…
Despite my (somewhat sarcastic) comments last week, there are in fact a ton of things happening right now in the job board and recruiting site industry. Money is still dropping into our sector, startups are still starting up, and companies…
As the year limps to an end, I thought it would be useful to take a look back on what I think were some of the key events and trends. The job board industry benefited from the growth in employment…
Before Dice's problems, I used to work at Dice, as you may well know. I was employee #9, stepping into a company that had evolved from a BBS in California to a full-fledged niche job board in Des Moines. I…
The news was surprising: Tegna was putting CareerBuilder up for sale. Tegna, which owns 53% of the job board (along with Tronc (aka Tribune) and McClatchy) stated that it wanted more 'financial flexibility'. In other words, time to cash out for…
Other than Monster getting sold to Randstad and Seek having a great year, nothing has happened in our industry recently, right? Umm....well, actually, a ton of stuff has gone down! So let's take a look and see what's what: Glassdoor…
So, finally, it happened. Randstad, the international staffing behemoth, bought Monster last week for $429 million. Yep, million. As in several hundred million less than Monster's 2015 gross revenues. Ow. There was a lot of analysis, some of it quite good.…
It's been a bit longer than usual since my last news roundup, so this missive may be rather packed. View it as your morning pick-me-up high density news sandwich. Or something like that. Ahem. Anyway, let's get started: Not so smart: David…
As Valentine's Day recedes in our rear view mirror, it's time to take another look at what's been going on in the industry over the past month. There has been the usual amount of 'revolutionary' new products and a bit…