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…
To paraphrase a well-known movie/book, conferences are like a box of chocolates - you don't know what you'll get until you try one. Or something like that. The Jobg8 Summit last week in Nashville was a nice mix of old…
The dog days of summer are a misnomer in our industry. Some of the most interesting developments happen when it gets hot (Microsoft buys Github? LinkedIn adds assessments? voice search?you get the picture). This cycle is no different - lots…
As an industry, we have always been the beneficiary of employers' hiring anxiety. Why would they bother to use a job board or recruiting service if they weren't at least a little bit anxious about their own abilities to fill…
What do you get if you can't articulate what you want? Sometimes you get a surprise, as in: 'Just get me something that tastes good', and you are presented with 'liver and onions cooked 7 ways' (apologies to those liver…
Note: The Doctor is recovering from the holiday (and too much house painting!). Enjoy this still-relevant post from last year: A fundamental challenge for our industry is discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job…
Although I'm hardly a LinkedIn fan-boy, I've found their strategy since acquisition by Microsoft quite interesting. As many predicted, they've become enmeshed with Microsoft's various enterprise products. But they've also continued to grow their own product via what I call incremental…
Geez! I can't believe it's been almost a year since I did a round up of new recruiting sites and services! So many services have risen, fallen, and been renamed. Well, I'm still going to give it a shot -…
A few weeks ago, I explored what the impending loss of net neutrality in the U.S. might mean for recruitment marketing sites and job boards. However, as this recent article points out, we can look to a few countries like…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is poised to vote on Dec. 14 to rescind the so-called net neutrality rules championed by former President Obama. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal would repeal rules that currently bar ISPs from blocking, slowing access to…