Apparently the Polar Vortex - although causing great misery in the Doctor's neck of the woods - had no effect on the recruitment marketing industry (or Vangst!). There have been sales, funding rounds, layoffs, and much more. So what happened?…
Note: This is a re-up of a post from this summer. Enjoy! Job boards - both traditional and non-traditional - have historically had one primary purpose in life: to bring candidates and employers together. For the traditional boards, that meant…
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…
There's been no shortage of news over the past few weeks from companies big (Google), in between (MeetFrank), and not so big (Adzuna). Toss in a few industry conferences and you have a pretty interesting summer! Let's see what's happened…
Job boards - both traditional and non-traditional - have historically had one primary purpose in life: finding candidates in order to bring candidates and employers together. For the traditional boards, that meant advertising - lots of it. Think Monster's Superbowl ads…
As long as I've been in this industry, there have been the big boys. The companies that have grabbed attention, market share, and investment. Sites like Monster, OCC, LinkedIn, Indeed, HotJobs, and CareerBuilder. They sought the #1 position and told…
The weather isn't getting much warmer, but activity in the recruitment marketing biz certainly is (witness our first item on Vettery). We've seen new rounds of funding, launches, and acquisitions - and that's just in the last 4 weeks! So…
For the past couple of years, I've been keeping a list of job board and recruitment marketing industry 'transactions' - in other words, when companies buy and sell. (And in case you're wondering, I've counted 5 since the beginning of…
Things have been lively in our industry over the past few weeks - news from DHI, StackOverflow, Mya, LinkedIn, and more - and not always good news at that. So let's get to it: DHI loses money and Durney: DHI saw…
There is a tendency - in every industry, not just our own - to look past market complexity for the 'next big thing'. We're talking about ground-shaking, market-changing stuff - like maybe Monster, LinkedIn, Indeed, or (even) Google. Each one…