It's true - focus drives function. An example: many years ago, Lloyd Linn, the then-owner of Dice, told me something that I have never forgotten: "If you don't have candidates, you won't have employers." In other words, without candidates, job…
Last year I counted 21 acquisitions, mergers, and sales in the recruiting site industry. 2017 has already notched one, with the sale of AuthenticJobs to BuySellAds. But new services continue to pop up, and since it's been almost 3 months…
NOTE: The Doctor is taking the week off. In the meantime, here is a post from earlier this year that is - of course - still quite relevant. The gig economy is going to be 'huuuge', or so many speakers…
Before we discuss Facebook jobs, let's start with a number: 1.79 billion. And that is? The number of Facebook users. Why is that important? Facebook is rolling out (slowly) a Jobs Tab feature for company pages. It's early days still,…
Before I began this post on the automation of recruiting, I had to pull my jaw off the ground. Yes, I had just learned that Monster paid $12.5M for Jobr. That's right. An app that Monster actually spec'd out to…
Stealing ideas has a long and storied history. I would argue that it's fundamental to humanity. You see a neighbor use an iron bar to lever up a rock, and you think, 'hey, that looks a lot easier than digging! I…
So, finally, it happened. Randstad, the international staffing behemoth, bought Monster last week for $429 million. Yep, million. As in several hundred million less than Monster's 2015 gross revenues. Ow. There was a lot of analysis, some of it quite good.…
NOTE: The Doctor is off this week, enjoying some R&R. This is a repeat of a post from last year that is still quite relevant. Enjoy! A few years back during the deep, dark recession, a few articles appeared about…
NOTE: The Doctor is off this week, enjoying some R&R. This is a repeat of a post from the spring that is still quite relevant. Enjoy! I've written about Indeed's transformation in North America several times over the past five years.…
Although there are mixed signals on the overall economy, the recruiting industry continues to sprout new job boards and job-board-like sites. It's been a couple of months since my last roundup, so I thought it was time to take a…