Recruitment has a new abundance problem. Employers still struggle to find critical skills. According to ManpowerGroup, 74% of employers globally report difficulty finding the talent they need. Yet recruiters are processing more applications than ever. Greenhouse’s latest benchmark, drawn from…
JBD Note: Guest essay by Martin Lenz, CEO of Jobiqo, on why the infrastructure behind recruiting may matter more as the interfaces in front of it may matter less. “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling…
Happy Holidays, Job Board Doctor friends! I hope you are all enjoying a blessed and festive December no matter who, what, or if you celebrate. Chad and I are sending you all positive energy and light from our home to…
My name is Alexander, and I advise job boards, aggregators and ATS platforms on SEO, Google Jobs optimization and AI. As part of my work, I monitor Google for various signals related to ranking. Last week, I noticed some significant…
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…
AI and verification: the new job board peanut butter and jelly? OK, I'm stretching things a little (maybe a lot). But the reality is that when AI can mimic humans so well that deep fakes are often effective at fooling…
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…
Job board content success? Huh? Well, job boards have long believed - or were taught to believe by search engines - that job ads were 'their' only real content. In other words, a job board was nothing without the primal…
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…
Old tech encompasses a wide range of things - from typewriters to transistor radios to email. Some old tech is still being used, almost unchanged - think of dress shoes or blue jeans. Other old tech has disappeared (faxes, anyone?),…