Yes, you read that right: online job ad revenue shrinks, at least according to a new report. Not the way I usually like to start the news roundup - and you'll see that plenty of sites are showing revenue growth…
By now you may have run into Google's AI overviews - summaries of text thrown up in answer to your query. Google rolled these overviews out to a certain number of search queries, although they haven't reveal which types of queries…
Huzzle raises funds - you heard right. Don't know what's up with the name, but sometimes this industry gets weird. It also turns out that LinkedIn continues to find new ways to squeeze more money out of their platform -…
If LinkedIn plays around, does that mean the rest of us will too, sooner or later? Interesting thought. As you might imagine, continued low unemployment and labor shortages are keeping the job board industry busy. Let's see what happened last…
Ok, this is hardly the first time that Glassdoor hurt its brand. Just scan through the company's history and you'll find plenty of examples where the tension between user anonymity and company enmity clashed over the site's landmark employer reviews…
Government regulation and job boards have been a fear, a threat - but the regulations also seemed remote. Even when GDPR was implemented, job boards were able to quickly comply. But... The reality is that job boards have been bumping…
For years, job boards have pushed employers to include salary information in job postings. Why? Research has shown that adding a salary (or salary range) to a posting will increase the job seeker response - and often, the quality of…
Zip, DHI, Recruiter, and Freelancer down? Is this news roundup going to be a total bummer? Not exactly. As you'll see, others like CrowdWorks, Upwork, Fiverr, and HelloWork are doing just fine. A tale of two job board industries? Perhaps…
When you don't want people to notice a change, you use non-colloquial language, as in Google's Job Ads deprecation. Yep, deprecation. They could've said, 'We're killing Google Job Ads' or even, 'We're shutting down Google Job Ads', but no -…
Google backs off? I guess I wasn't as surprised as some folks - but perhaps I'm just too cynical! Still, the apparent retreat of the Google job ads offering was only one bit of a lot of news in the…