The results are in – and things have changed a bit from 2021! Folks seem considerably more optimistic about their businesses - although perhaps not so optimistic about the economy. The survey, which included respondents from every area of the globe…
If you read my monthly news roundup (and if you don't, you should!), you have probably noticed that much of the content covers companies getting funding. Why? Well, for one thing, big (or even moderate) money is interesting. Funding can…
Amid reports of market softening but also lots of acquisitions, I have also seen what I would call 'employer swapping' - workers who are laid off by one company being immediately recruited to work at another company. Why? Well, folks,…
Snagajob, the Richmond, Virginia-based job board for hourly workers, laid off about 40 employees in the past week. According to CEO Mathieu Stevenson, “We recently had to make difficult decisions that impacted approximately 40 individuals in Richmond in response to…
A veritable flood of financial reports for Q2 2022 just came out, and they are - in a word - up. Now, remember that these summaries are by definition backward-looking, but it appears that despite worries in certain sectors about…
Sometimes, it seems like the industry news is pretty random - and sometimes, it seems to be trending in a particular direction. As we saw in last month's roundup, there were - along with the usual funding rounds - a…
It's been a challenging few years, hasn't it? First a worldwide pandemic, which in turn caused an economic crash, which was followed by an economic boom, which fueled an already-existing labor crunch. The shortage of workers (or workers with the…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Andy Hibel of HigherEdJobs, the leading job board for careers in academia. Andy talks about how HigherEdJobs got started - including a number of revenue-free years. Jeff Dickey-Chasins of JobBoardDoctor and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter learn…
In this episode of JobBoardGeek, we talk to Ian Partington of HST Hiring Group about what's changed - and hasn't - in the last 20 years of job boards and how to recruit. Ian, who previously founded and ran the SimplyJobs group of…
Job boards - like almost all other businesses - have a tendency to look and function a certain way; in other words, they lack differentiation. Call it the default 'operating mode'. This is partly because of customer expectations (usually set…