It’s not exactly the New York Times, but Recruitology has landed a deal that will make it the job board solutions provider for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the city’s largest newspaper. Checkout the new career site here. “Recruitology’s mission is to…
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Watch Out ZipRecruiter: LinkedIn is Coming After Small Business Hiring With ‘Recommended Matches’
LinkedIn’s brand hasn’t exactly been associated with small business employment over the years. The unspoken word for businesses that can’t maintain a robust company page has basically been to come back when you get an applicant tracking system and hire…
Why Did Indeed Acquire Resume.com?
Historically, Indeed’s acquisitions make a lot of sense. Adding Simply Hired, Interview, and Workopolis are pretty easy to justify. Same thing for Recruit Holdings, Indeed’s parent company, which recently added Glassdoor to the arsenal. The recent news that Indeed had acquired…
DHI Group Stock Price Spikes After Hedge Fund Activity
Sometimes, timing is everything. If you’ve been following shares in DHI Group (NYSE: DHX) for the past few years, you know it’s mostly been an ugly nosedive toward oblivion for the once-mighty job board business that includes names like Dice, eFinancial…
Dice’s Parent Company Sells Off Another Job Board
Two years ago, DHI Group announced it was exploring strategic alternatives for the company, which is corporate-speak for for-sale. A year after, when it became clear there would be no buyer, the company got busy shedding its job boards no…
Monster Finally Gets a CEO, Adds Former Dice President to Executive Team
Well, that took a while. So long, in fact, that I don’t even remember who the last CEO was at Monster. Better late than never, I guess, as Monster announced a tech executive from the travel industry as its new…
My Initial Thoughts on The Glassdoor Acquisition
Glassdoor didn’t make much of a splash when it launched back in 2008. Job boards like Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs owned the headlines, while upstarts like Indeed, SimplyHired, and Jobster were grabbing most of the remaining attention. The business model…
Surprise! Glassdoor Sold for More than a Billion
Glassdoor’s plans for an IPO have long been one of talent-acquisition’s worst-kept secrets; 2018 was perhaps finally going to be the year, and the company has even been thought to be interviewing banks. Instead, it was “another staffing company buying…
New Commercials From Monster Push Mobile Apps
Monster has a handful of new TV commercials running nationally. In a world where ads from ZipRecruiter and Indeed are inescapable, it’s a welcome change of pace. If you haven’t seen them, here an example: Click here to see the…
Monster Touts ‘Humanizing’ Job Search With Latest Updates
At its core, the Internet isn’t particularly human. That help-wanted sign in the window of your local convenient store is even less so. Putting help-wanted signs on the Internet is a recipe for ice-cold capitalism, but Monster is rolling out…
New Ownership at CareerBuilder Means Cost-Cutting, Layoffs, and Departing Executives
It’s not 1999 anymore. There was a time when anything with a dot-com at the end of it was akin to a rocket ship blasting to a moon made of money. Job boards like Monster.com were thought to have tremendous…
Google for Jobs Expands to Canada, India
If you’re a job board outside the U.S., consider yourself warned. Google is coming. It was a just a matter of time, but Google is finally rolling out its vertical job search solution, commonly known as Google for Jobs, to…
CareerBuilder Sells Labor Market Analytics Firm Emsi to Strada
Sell! Sell! Sell! Keeping in tune with the private-equity playbook, it was just a matter of time before Apollo Global, CareerBuilder’s majority shareholder since 2016, would start putting pieces of the portfolio up for sale. Announced today, the company is…
Details of Indeed’s Acquisition of Canada’s Workopolis Are Coming to Light
When Indeed announced it had purchased Workopolis, a well-known job board in Canada on April 4, the reasoning behind such a move was a mystery. By most metrics, Indeed.ca was already the most-trafficked job site north of the border, and…
Dice’s Parent Company, DHI Group, Has a New CEO
True to its word back in November 2017, DHI Group, the parent company to well-known tech job board Dice, has a new CEO, replacing outgoing CEO Michael Durney. Announced on April 10, Art Zeile now holds the title of chief executive officer….
Here’s Why Snagajob Rebranded Itself as Snag
“People aren’t looking to snag-a-job, anymore,” said Snag CEO Peter Harrison. “They’re looking to snag-a-shift.” Reminiscent of Snapchat shortening its name to Snap and telling the world it’s more than just disappearing messages, 18-year-old Snagajob is rebranding itself Snag, attributing the…
How Google Begins and Ends the War for Talent
The average member of the workforce is well aware that today’s job hunt looks very different than it did just a few years ago. Now, virtually all applications must be completed online, and there’s usually an opportunity to populate applications…
Oh, Canada! Indeed.com Acquires Workopolis
America’s neighbor to the north has a new job search overlord. Announced today, Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. will acquire the website and assets of Canadian job site Workopolis.com through its subsidiary, Indeed. Workopolis will become part of Indeed’s publisher network,…
Indeed’s New TV Commercial Gives Insight Into New Strategy Against Google for Jobs
Indeed has a new television ad. If you’re a basketball fan, you likely noticed it during the NCAA tournament this past weekend. If you’re not a fan, check it out here: The ad is called “Sunny,” featuring the Bobby Hebb…
Gen Xers, Baby Boomers May Be the Ones Who Save Monster, Internal Survey Says
Have you heard? Monster is making a comeback. In light of being acquired by Randstad in 2016, the once-mighty job board has been reborn with new leadership, a new mascot, and maybe even a new job search. It makes sense to…