I Heard It in the Exhibit Hall at the Spring ’15 ERE Conference

A little o’ this, and a little o’ that from the exhibit floor at the spring ERE conference in San Diego.

SimplyHired will launch a couple of new products. One’s an ad retargeting system, where if you search for a job in, say, nursing on SimplyHired, and then go to a totally unrelated site, a hospital could display an ad for you on that unrelated site. Another is a display ad product on SimplyHired. Say I search for a truck-driving job … a company that has driving jobs open (but perhaps one that I wouldn’t have thought of as having such jobs open, because it’s not a transportation company) could buy display ad space on my search results.
Speaking of SimplyHired … I mentioned it before, but it’s now public with its eHarmony partnership.
Avature, known as a talent community/CRM company, is maneuvering into an applicant tracking system company, competing with major ATS players for new business.
What’s making some vendors happy? Jobs2Careers because there’s sharply more activity on its site following its recent redesign; iCIMS because it signed up the New York Post; Jobvite because it signed Dealertrack Technologies; Jibe because it landed work for eBay, Bank of New York, and Life Time Fitness, building a wide swath of the candidate experience on those career sites.