I've written about Indeed's transformation in North America several times over the past five years. It added resumes, ridded itself of job board customers, and ramped up a direct sales force to tackle employer sales. It was famously acquired by the…
Last week I looked back at the industry news for 2015...but (ahem) I then realized I hadn't done a new update since November. Oops. So, without further ado, here is the last (really!) news update for 2015. I promise. Is it hot in…
The vast majority of job boards and recruiting sites are medium- or small-sized. That's just the nature of almost any industry - and certainly ours. Most sites do less than $25 million in sales annually. A minority do more - and…
At the recent IAEWS meeting, several of you came up and mentioned that you enjoyed these monthly news roundups. Thanks! They are actually pretty time consuming to put together, but I find them useful as a scorecard for where our…
News wanders across my desk (well, my monitor) on occasion that doesn't really fit into a standard 'themed' blog post - just random observations and things that may or may not have any impact on our industry. Still, I find…
About a year and a half ago, I wrote about the pay for performance model (PFP) - where employers pay for specific candidate actions (usually clicks), rather than for a job posting. The idea has an intrinsic appeal - after all, who…
We're already into 2015, and as you might guess, the job board and online recruiting industry is staying busy. Dice goes for billboards: In a back to the future moment, Dice is running 50 foot billboards in Silicon Valley featuring…
Last week I put on my virtual job seeker hat to immerse myself in the current world of searching for work. It kinda sucked. Step 1: I picked a job title that I know fairly well - marketing director. Step…
Remember when LinkedIn used to say it wasn't a job board? Oh, wait - I guess they still do. Yet if you ask a room of HR professionals that question, the answer is crystal clear: "Of course LinkedIn is a…
Almost everyone in the job board industry either uses aggregators - or has in the past. It's just a fact of job board life. But recent developments (LinkedIn and Monster aggregating job postings) and the ascension of Indeed to the…