At the TAtech conference in Denver, I had a brief conversation with Joel Cheesman about innovation. He challenged me to come up with any job boards or companies in recruitment marketing that were 'innovative'. I fumbled for an answer (as…
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…
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…
As we slip (drift? fall?) into fall, the recruitment marketing industry continues to grow and develop. Speaking of - have you taken the 2017-18 Recruiting Trends survey? No? Do it now! Ok, let's get on to the news: Recruit is…
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…
I'm in the process of finishing the latest version of the Job Board Software Buyer's Guide (out hopefully next week). In between the time I first sent out surveys to the vendors and the time I started writing up the…
OK, so I finally got tired of writing about Google! Plus an amazing amount of stuff has been happening in our corner of the world economy. So it's time to take a look at the wheelings and dealings of our…
That's right, it's Google Jobs again! Last week I walked through the Google Jobs initiative, which is comprised of a specific way of marking up job ads (and letting Google know you did), and the Cloud Jobs API, which addresses…
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…