Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces
Each week, 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.
Episodes
March 6, 2023 • 2 mins
We've really enjoyed publishing this audio-only podcast in partnership with the good folks at Evergreen, but all good things must come to an end. Or, in this case, not really come to an end but change and move. Kind of like when teenagers (finally!) move out of the house. But we digress.
We're moving to a video, live-stream format even though the people who know us best repeatedly tell us that we have faces for radio.
We're happy...
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March 2, 2023 • 25 mins
Jim Durbin is the Director of Recruitment Marketing for PSG Global Solutions, an RPO that supports staffing and recruiting companies. Jim has been in the industry for over 20 years, and he is sometimes referred to as the Indeed Whisperer.
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February 23, 2023 • 22 mins
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 20, 2014, capturing strategic sites across Crimia. Within weeks, Russian forces and militia allied with Russia controlled not just Crimia, but also substantial portions of eastern Ukraine.
Six years later on February 24, 2022, Russia again invaded Ukraine but this time its goal was to conquer the entire country. Ukraine, with substantial aid from other nations, fought back but at a terrible price...
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February 16, 2023 • 26 mins
Indeed is the world's biggest job board and has long charged its employer customers on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis. In Q4 2022, Indeed announced at its annual conference, by email, and on-site that within months it would phase out CPC in favor of cost-per-application (CPA). Yet, when the calendar turned from 2022 to 2023, many of Indeed's small and medium sized business (SMBs) customers were shocked to discover that they were bein...
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February 9, 2023 • 28 mins
Joelle Pang of FastCo, the creator of FastJobs Malaysia and its new sister site, FastGig Malaysia.
FastJobs aims to create equal access to jobs opportunities for everyone by focusing on the recruitment of customer-facing, entry-level and operational roles via a mobile-first job platform.
FastJobs launched in Malaysia in 2017. It now has:
- 1,500,000 registered jobseekers and growing
- 250,000+ active jobseekers searching and appl...
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February 2, 2023 • 24 mins
Kelly Cherwin is the Director of Editorial Strategy at HigherEdJobs, the leading job board and resource site in academia. She also teaches project management and strategic management courses at two universities in the Chicago area. She’s also the co-host of the HigherEdJobs Podcast, which offers great career advice to staff and faculty of colleges and universities.
One of the key differentiators between HigherEdJobs and other nich...
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January 26, 2023 • 28 mins
Shelley Billinghurst is one of Canada's leading recruitment experts. She's owned and retained a search company whose clients were primarily small- and medium-sized businesses, led the corporate recruiting for two of the world's largest energy extraction companies, owns a boutique recruitment advertising agency, and is the co-host of The Recruitment Flex, Canada's leading podcast about the world of recruitment.
In today's episode, ...
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Joe Stubblebine is the Chief Revenue Officer of Lensa, a fast growing aggregator whose founder and most of its staff are located in Hungary but whose employer and candidate users are mostly in the United States.
In today's episode, Joe discusses some of the innovations coming out of Lensa, including its FastTalent Direct product as well as his vision for how buyers and sellers of candidate traffic can better work together. Hint: h...
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Will Moss attended Hampton University in Virginia after not knowing what a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) was but graduated with a passion for creating community amongst the students and alumni of the 100+ HBCUs. As a software engineer, he was able to build one of the first online communities at a time when Monster and Careerbuilder dominated the job board world and added a job board feature after repeated request...
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January 5, 2023 • 22 mins
Your fearless co-hosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter, get together with Katja Riefler, the Managing Director of AIM Group, to discuss who should attend RecBuzz Berlin 2023 and why. You'll get a sneak peak at the agenda, networking events, venue, and more.
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December 29, 2022 • 22 mins
Aimwel was created in 2022 as an AI-powered, programmatic, recruitment advertising platform designed to deliver high-quality lead generation for employers, staffing companies, and other job advertisers across paid performance media channels such as job boards and recruitment marketplaces. Aimwel grew out of the job board business of DPG Media.
In June 2022, Dennis Van Allemeersch transitioned from his role as Director of Job Class...
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December 22, 2022 • 25 mins
Manjinder Sanga is the Head of Product for UK-based Sonic Jobs. Unlike many in similar roles for other organizations, she worked in design technology education for 15 years and then headed an EdTech start-up for six more years.
Manjinder's background in design, leading an EdTech start-up, and now as the Head of Product for a high-traffic, job search site have allowed her to act on her passion to improv and impact the life chances o...
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December 15, 2022 • 26 mins
Malcolm Myers is a well known advisor to job boards and other online marketplaces. He has spent the past 15 years working with founders to raise capital, or to sell online marketplaces around the world.
In today's episode, Malcolm dispels some of the myths around what investors and acquirers are looking for right now and also looks ahead to which business models he feels offer the greatest potential for growth and which are destin...
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December 8, 2022 • 27 mins
Internships, at their core, are temp-to-perm employment opportunities that allow both the employer and the student to work together for usually a few months to see if they're a good fit. Parker Dewey has taken that to another level with what it calls micro-internships, projects that typically last five to 40 hours. Many of these projects are similar to what you'd find on project-based recruitment marketplaces such as Fiverr and Upw...
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December 1, 2022 • 29 mins
Jooble is consistently ranked well within the top 10 job boards globally in terms of traffic and operates in some 40 countries. It is also headquartered in Kyev, Ukraine and so overnight needed to shift from thinking about how best to thrive to thinking about how best to help its employees and their families survive and continue to serve its job seeker and employer customers. Not only did Jooble survive, it is thriving.
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November 24, 2022 • 24 mins
Evan Herman works remotely as a Technology Recruiter. He formerly worked in a similar role for a large tech company with a primary focus on technology, technology sales, engineers, and information technology consultants.
He's also active on LinkedIn, where he has written about his desire to see job boards and other sourcing technologies better align their interests with those of their employer clients by migrating from traditional,...
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November 17, 2022 • 27 mins
Martin Lenz is the CEO of Jobiqo, a leading provider of job board software and AI powered matching technology.
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November 10, 2022 • 27 mins
Alicia Ramsdell is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Career Path. She started her private career coaching practice in 2020, and is inspired to make career fulfillment a career reality for everyone.
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November 3, 2022 • 29 mins
Alex Murphy is the Co-Founder and CEO of JobSync, a platform that provides seamless integrations between job sites, ATSs, and other systems used by talent acquisition professionals by emulating the ATS application natively within the quick apply functions of the job sites.
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October 27, 2022 • 25 mins
Rathin Sinha been active in the talent marketplace and HR tech industry for the last two decades building new businesses such as Monster’s ecommerce, America’s Job Exchange, and JOBfindah. Both AJE and JOBfindah diversity job boards and acquired by Circa.
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