The data is still rolling in (and I'm a bit behind), but after 190 (yes, that's right - 190) responses, I believe we have some very good information about the state of the job board industry in 2012. The full…
Man, time flies when you're blogging. It's been a while since the last news roundup, and a few things have happened. Like: Is Monster on the block? Or not?: Well, I don't know. But rumor (and Sal Iannuzzi) has it…
Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler have been conducting the landmark CareerXRoads Source of Hire survey for over a decade. In my mind, that's useful data. They've just come out with the 2012 edition, and it's absolutely worth a look. The…
Money money money - maybe I should call one of my posts that, eh? Once a week (more or less), I sit down and write about the job board and online recruiting industry. Some of these posts are more popular…
The big news in the recruiting world last week was the acquisition of Jobs2Web by SuccessFactors, which had only a few days before been gobbled up by SAP. Why Jobs2Web? Well, I think a part of the decision had to be…
Back in the day - say, 3 or 4 years ago - if you were looking for a job, you typically visited big job destination sites like Monster, an aggregator like Indeed, a few niche sites, and a few company sites.…
Well, folks, it's official - there are now resumes on Indeed - and Indeed is letting anyone and everyone search their resume database. It's free - for now. Sound familiar? It does to me - after all, Indeed used the…
One problem with the internet in general and social media in particular is that you have fewer reasons to leave the office. After all, if I'm swapping Tweets with @Animal or @HRMargo all day, do I really want to spend…
Why should you care about mobile apps for job boards? Well, if you're part of the 97% of the US population with a cell phone, you most likely use it for more than phoning. And if you're part of the…
This may be heresy - but sometimes I think more communication in the job board world isn't necessarily better. To wit: here in the U.S. Midwest, we are experiencing - depending on your news source - an unprecedented number of…