Seven years ago a job site for female millennials launched. It was called The Daily Muse. Fast forward to now - there was a name change (The Muse), an injection of $30 million dollars, massive growth, and voila!: the site…
Full disclosure: I worked at Dice (now DHI) from 1997 through 2000. I don't hold DHI stock, and have only fleeting contact with DHI personnel. Also, I'm not too excited about the DHI logo. So DHI, parent company of Dice,…
The results are in from the 2018-19 Recruiting Site Trends survey! Nearly 200 job boards, recruitment marketing companies, and related businesses responded to this year's survey. As always, I think you'll find their answers interesting and useful. Here are a…
It's been an interesting few weeks in the recruitment marketing industry - LinkedIn has been making moves, ZipRecruiter found some new funding, and...yes, there's something about Jobiak. And something about AI. Let's take a closer look: pymetrics raises $40M: pymetrics,…
Although most of the attention in recruitment marketing these days is on Google, Facebook, and Indeed, there is another big player: LinkedIn. In fact, long before we were shaking in our (virtual) boots over Google's or Indeed's latest moves, LinkedIn…
If you are like me, you sift through 150 or so articles a day about the HR and recruiting industry, looking for trends in the noise that seem most relevant to our corner of it. Who got funding? What new…
So it's the end of the summer and not much is going on in recruitment marketing, except a new CEO at CareerBuilder and an UpWork IPO and...well, maybe there are a few things going on! Let's take a look at the latest:…
Hey everyone! It's that time of the year - time for the 2018-19 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 recruiting sites…
I always thought it would be fun to be a personal advice columnist, like 'Dear Abby'. The only problem was, I knew my answers would never get published in a general audience paper. 'Dear Jeff, my significant other is having…
I am by nature a skeptic and contrarian. In general, these tendencies have served me well in my various careers. But they also can result in situations where I am surrounded by folks who are making big claims, and who…