This is starting to feel like World War I: 'Great' powers, aggressive tactics, and a desire for world domination. Yep, I'm talking about the recruitment marketing industry. In case you didn't hear, Recruit bought Glassdoor last week. Many incisive analyses…
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…
If you read a lot of HR blogs and magazines - like I do - you will notice a lot of 'forecasts': '12 key trends in HR for 2017'; '6 technologies that will change recruiting'; and so on. Heck, I've…
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…
Ever since I read 'A Serf on Google's Farm', I've wanted to (a) draw it to your attention (read it!!), and (b) talk about the impact that the Facebook and Google monopolies have on our industry. The article has a…
Google Jobs moves into beta, TAtech is now a memory, and Jobg8 London looms. Interesting, eh? Plus across much of the Northern Hemisphere we're moving into fall, which means, well, more changes in the recruitment marketing industry! So without further…
Since its inception, the job board industry has been built on the reality that most job seekers discovered sites via a search engine. Yes, there have been periods of ‘extreme advertising’, such as Monster’s Superbowl ads – but the reality…
Sometimes you just have to dig to find a topic to write about in the recruiting site biz, you know? Particularly when you are in a backwoods, nothing-exciting industry like ours. I mean, I'd write about watching the grass grow...but…
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 we discuss Facebook jobs, let's start with a number: 1.79 billion. And that is? The number of Facebook users. Why is that important? Facebook is rolling out (slowly) a Jobs Tab feature for company pages. It's early days still,…