Hiya Job Board Doctor Friends — Q1 2025 is officially in the books and boy, oh boy, has it been a quarter. This week's roundup includes: LinkedIn Dublin, minimum wage cuts, S&P’s downgraded economic outlook, a Flexiworld v. Indeed update,…
Happy Friday, Job Board Doctor Friends! Lots to cover this last week of February. We've nearly survived, and perhaps thrived, the second month of 2025 and are heading into March with a mix of economic uncertainty and—hopefully—some spring flowers. This…
Happy February, Job Board Doctor friends! I hope you're all busy planning a romantic Valentine's celebration—or maybe a fun Gal-(or Guy)-entine’s gathering. And no, this is definitely not a subtle reminder for my gorgeous husband (and favorite JBD contributor and…
This week at the Job Board Doctor, we are wrapping up the last of the fall conference season live from NOLA, at Outsolve’s inaugural HR Gumbo conference. In the spirit of our pure exhaustion, and yours too, let’s look at…
My name is Alexander, and I advise job boards, aggregators and ATS platforms on SEO, Google Jobs optimization and AI. As part of my work, I monitor Google for various signals related to ranking. Last week, I noticed some significant…
During times of market tightening or periods of market instability, recruitment technology vendors must respond, but it is too often done reactively. The best understand how market trends shift over time, know markets expand and constrict, and approach shifts in…
You've probably already heard about the 'merger' of CareerBuilder and Monster. It's actually Apollo Global Management acquiring a controlling share of Monster, and Randstad backing out of the job board business. This news comes on the heels of reports concerning…
Acquisitions seem to be in the air - see Bullhorn acquires Textkernel, for example. Or Jobtoolz, or NetJobs, or... You get the idea. And could it be that Indeed's traffic is falling? Read on to find out: Jobtoolz acquires Hirehive: Belgian-based…
Indeed gets into staffing. Sound familiar? Of course it does. The company introduced Indeed Flex roughly five years ago (via the acquisition of UK staffing platform Syft) as their foray into the world of staffing - specifically tech staffing. And…
Yes, you read that right: online job ad revenue shrinks, at least according to a new report. Not the way I usually like to start the news roundup - and you'll see that plenty of sites are showing revenue growth…