LinkedIn, the career-oriented social platform best known for being a repository of resumes and stiff headshots, has dipped its toes into the niche territory of freelancing, as seen with the expansion of its Services Marketplace. It’s quite the strategic pivot…
Last week, ZipRecruiter announced its acquisition of Breakroom, a UK-based employer review platform focused on frontline industries such as retail and hospitality. This move signals ZipRecruiter’s need to improve the quality of job search data by cutting through the noise…
So here’s the scoop—I'm feeling pretty heavy-hearted. Just got wind of iCIMS slashing jobs in the US, with Europe next on the chopping block come September. And Qualifi's layoffs last month? A real gut punch— to some truly stellar talent.…
It's always been the case that some folks retire, then go back to work. Why? Maybe they get bored in retirement. Perhaps they feel isolated. Or they find that they don't have as much money as they thought they would.…
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.…
Why would I focus on the idea that employers are consumers? After all, everyone knows that...right? Ahem. To put it discreetly, sometimes we 'forget'. We think that employers: know exactly what they want know exactly how to articulate what they…
Indeed's AI future was the subject of a recent talk by Chris Hyams, CEO of Indeed, at the company's FutureWorks conference. Indeed - in case you've forgotten - is the largest job board in the world, and thus what it…
You may ask yourself why I am telling you how to destroy a business. Well...the longer you spend in the job board and recruitment marketing sectors, the more likely it is that you will be tempted to acquire another business.…
You want to make your job board better, right? Even if you don't call it a job board? Even if you're an old-timer? Even if you started your job board yesterday? Well, sure. Of course. But the rub is, how? How do…
A fundamental challenge for our industry is candidate discovery: how do candidates and employers discover each other? You can argue that job boards - and newspapers before them - tried to solve this problem: they tried to make it easier…