Alright, grab some popcorn because we’re diving into the ups, downs, fines, and artificial makeovers of the recruitment world. Let’s talk about ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn, and a few others all trying to navigate the today's chaotic job and labor markets. First…
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…
As I read Jeff’s “see ya later” post last week, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Next week, the content you’ve loved for the past 15 years falls on a New Job Board Doctor—me. Yeah, I’ve got some…
Time for the first news roundup of the new year - and amazingly enough, there is plenty of it (including good news for SeekOut)! Facebook/Meta continues to lurch about, running afoul of privacy regulators around the world, and a new podcast…
As we move closer to the traditional holiday season, you might expect to see some slowdown in industry activity - after all, some folks actually take a few days off here and there! Well, if there is a slowdown, I'm…
Last week I gathered revenue updates from a number of publicly held job boards to see if there was a common thread. This revenue roundup seemed to indicate there was - it seems that revenue is up (even for beleaguered…
The big news in our industry is the impending ZipRecruiter IPO (set for the day after the Doctor's birthday - no coincidence, I am sure!). When a job board IPO shows up in the tech press, the financial press, and…
It's May, which means a flurry of Q1 financial reports (see DHI, Upwork, and Axel Springer, below), and - depending on where you live - something resembling warm weather. Despite the length of this roundup, I actually left out several…
In 2018, I tracked 28 purchases/acquisitions/mergers, lots of money raised, some layoffs, some hiring, and a continued influx of startups into the recruitment marketing industry. In other words, a pretty good year in recruitment marketing. Let's take a closer look:…