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?…
You're in a crowded saloon. The biggest, baddest gunslinger is lounging at the bar, regaling his compatriots with stories of how big and bad he is, about his millions of followers and billions in revenue. Then the door swings open.…
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…
Let's talk about an annual biz checkup, shall we? Operating a job board or recruitment marketing company can sometime feel like putting out a never-ending series of fires. Employer A's jobs aren't doing well. There aren't enough candidate signups in…
The weather isn't getting much warmer, but activity in the recruitment marketing biz certainly is (witness our first item on Vettery). We've seen new rounds of funding, launches, and acquisitions - and that's just in the last 4 weeks! So…
For the past couple of years, I've been keeping a list of job board and recruitment marketing industry 'transactions' - in other words, when companies buy and sell. (And in case you're wondering, I've counted 5 since the beginning of…
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…
Even as holidays draw near, the recruitment marketing industry chugs along with more funding, more product releases - and even some news about LinkedIn (shock!). Seems like this industry also encourages the (ahem) creative names, eh? So without further ado,…
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.…
It's been a record-breaking year for the 2016-17 Recruiting Site Trends Survey - response is up 21% from last year, and we received responses from almost every part of the globe! Do I sound enthused? Well...I am! This year's survey…