Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces
Aggregator, General, Niche
In each episode, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter and Peter Zollman of the AIM Group analyze news about general, niche, and aggregator job board and recruitment marketplace sites. With guests from the world's leading job sites, and people who follow or work with them, Steven and Peter dive into the tactics and strategies used by sites that dominate their markets or are the most innovative --- or both.
Each episode will give you actionable takeaways, whether you're an employer looking to improve your return on investment, an investor, a job-board affiliate, or work for any of the thousands of recruitment sites worldwide.
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What do you get when you combine the American Thanksgiving Day holiday and three podcasters? Some bad jokes about turkey...and a few great takeaways. What you also get is a robust discussion with guest William Tincup of WRKdefined, a new network for work-related podcasts; Peter M. Zollman of AIM Gro...
Impact of the U.S. Presidential election on the job board industry
The re-election 1.5 weeks ago of Donald Trump was a shock to some, a relief to others, and sure to bring changes to the U.S. and global economies, therefore hiring, and therefore our job board / recruitment marketplace industry. In today's episode, guest Joseph Stubblebine of Lensa and cohosts Peter...
Breaking news: JobGet acquires Snagajob
JobGet today acquired SnagAJob, its 3rd acquisition in 18 months. JobGet is an app-first platform for quickly hiring hourly workers. In that niche, speed is key. SnagAJob was founded 25 years ago and was the largest hourly worker site in the U.S. with 100 million profiles of hourly workers. In our i...
Indeed sued and LinkedIn fined
Another week, another fine...and another lawsuit. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter get together for a little one-on-one episode to talk about some newsworthy legal matters impacting the two biggest players in our industry. First, we talk a little about I...
How AI is changing targeting and engaging with candidates
Depending on who you talk with, artificial intelligence is either the best thing for the job board industry since sliced bread or one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Today's guest, Yazad Dalal of Joveo, discusses AI differently. Yes, it is a game-changer for employers, talent acquisition ven...
Breaking News: Layoffs and Lawsuits
The newly combined organization of Monster + Careerbuilder has apparently undergone a round of layoffs. Information is sketchy so far, but it appears that at least several people in sales- and partnership-related roles have lost their jobs. In other news, Indeed has sued ZipRecruiter after employees...
Resurrecting a well-known brand: The rebirth of Jobster
This spring, in what felt like a Back to the Future moment for veterans of job boards, the Jobster.com brand was reborn. The original Jobster was founded in 2004 in Seattle, Washington, USA and led by Jason Goldberg. It raised $50 million, which was an eye-popping amount of money at the time. It att...
Dispelling the myths: How job seekers are actually using AI
Tom Wood of The Hub is our guest today to help us separate fact from fiction: are job seekers actually using AI to apply to a massive number of jobs, or is that mostly urban legend? Hint: the truth is somewhere in between those two extremes. Cohost Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group was unable to joi...
EU, UK, and USA labor markets today and tomorrow
Dr. Julius Probst of Appcast and The Stepstone Group joins the podcast today to talk about how the labor markets impact job boards and recruitment marketplaces. He explains why we don't want labor markets that are cold, which most of us easily understand, but also why we don't want labor markets tha...
When to use off-the-shelf instead of custom-built job board software
Marty Aghajanyan, Founder and CEO of JBoard, is today's guest. We talk about when new or even existing job boards should use off-the-shelf software from any of a couple of dozen providers, one of the most popular of which is JBoard, and when it makes more sense for them to build and maintain their o...