As long as I've been in this industry, there have been the big boys. The companies that have grabbed attention, market share, and investment. Sites like Monster, OCC, LinkedIn, Indeed, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder. They sought the #1 position and told…
Hey folks, in a few months I am heading off to the Jobg8 Job Board Summit, July 26-27, in Nashville. Why? Well, they invited me to put together the agenda and speaker list - so I kind of thought I…
About a year ago, I offered a guide to conferences for recruitment marketing folks. Now I'm packing up to go to another conference, and it made me wonder: why go to conferences? Why not just stay home and keep working?…
Over the years I've worked with a number of clients who are thinking about the next step. Sometimes that meant an acquisition. Sometimes that meant new staff, or additional marketing. But it usually meant - at its core - growth. These…
If you read much recruiting and HR press (like I do), you inevitably run into something odd: there seems to be retention tension between what employers do and say. On the one hand, there are tons of articles extolling the gig…
Note: The Doctor's writing fingers are currently frozen in the deep freeze enveloping his home state...so here is a replay from March 2016. Enjoy! Seems like everyone and their donkey does a 'what's coming next' post around this time of…
The results are in from the latest edition of the 2017-18 Global Recruiting Site trends survey! This year we had - as always - great response from recruiting sites, job boards, and other recruitment marketing services from around the world.…
Note: The Doctor is on his way to TAtech, so this is an oldie but goodie from earlier this year. Enjoy! A long time ago I was the marketing director for a publishing company. Apart from making sure that the…
Hey everyone! It's that time - time for the 2017-18 Global Recruiting Site Trends survey! As always, I need your help to get it off the ground. In addition to the usual valuable info on what job boards and recruiting sites…
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…