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…
What do you get if you can't articulate what you want? When you have a lack of clarity? Sometimes you get a surprise, as in: 'Just get me something that tastes good', and you are presented with 'liver an onions…
For many job boards, seasonality in hiring demand is a fact of life. Demand may drop during the holidays, or the dead of summer, or perhaps in the fall or spring. Or...it may rise during those periods. It just depends on what…
It's been kind of busy around here lately. As you probably saw, the 2021-22 Recruiting Site Trends Survey Results are out - some interesting stuff there. And yes, news keeps happening in our industry (like Byteboard)! So it's time for…
The 2021-22 Recruiting Site Survey results are in - and things have changed a bit from 2020! Folks seem considerably more optimistic. The survey, which included respondents from every area of the globe - from North America to Africa, from…
When was the last time someone asked you, 'Hey, aren't job boards dead already?' For me, it's pretty much every couple of weeks. Really. The question isn't asked in hostility (usually), but in more of a tone of bewilderment. Why?…
Last week I gathered revenue updates from a number of publicly held job boards to see if there was a common thread. This revenue roundup seemed to indicate there was - it seems that revenue is up (even for beleaguered…
Although much of the job board industry is privately held, there are enough publicly-owned companies to provide us with a sense of how thing are going - in other words, it's revenue time. The answer? Well, pretty good, actually -…
After the nadir of the pandemic, the current hiring frenzy feels pretty good, right? Most of the folks in the industry that I talk to are seeing big increases in candidate and employer activity. Investments are also rising, as are…