Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces

Industry veteran, Christopher Campbell of Reticular Media, joins us today for an episode that will be of great interest to any job board / recruitment marketplace that sends bulk, commercial emails such as job match alerts.

Sending thousands, tens of thousands, or even more emails a day is massively challenging as the rules from Gmail and other email service providers (ESPs) are constantly changing, as are the best practices for ensuring that your emails get into the inbox, opened, and the job ads clicked on.

Cohost Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group wasn't able to join us for today's episode, but cohost Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter discusses with Chris his three tips for ensuring success plus a bonus recommendation at the end.

What do failed retailers K-Mart and Sears have in common with Monster and CareerBuilder? In both cases, you've got organizations that were large, vibrant, and dominant but gradually faded until their owners decided that combining them was somehow a great strategy. 

Today, global staffing company, Randstad, announced that it was ceding majority ownership of its Monster property through some kind of vague "combination" of the two job board organizations. Is this an acquisition? Apparently, no. Is this a merger? Apparently, no. Is this a joint venture? Apparently, no.

Interesting, the same announcement was not made by Apollo Group's CareerBuilder, which cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter have some fun with.

Tune in to learn what we know, and also to hear which one of us is stunning and which one is unsurprising.

Cohost Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group is back from his well-deserved break and discusses with Cohost Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter whether job boards and recruitment marketplaces are all seeing reduced revenues coming out of the pandemic, to what degree, why, and whether that's temporary or permanent.

The gents also discuss what sites should be doing now as we head into the summer and, for many, a time when business slows down. 

Oh, and if you think that Peter and Steven see eye-to-eye on all of these topics, well, think again. No fists are thrown, but there is some disagreement.

Our illustrious Cohost, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group was traveling back from Europe to his home in Orlando, Florida today and so our other Cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter, was left to his own devices. Fortunately, no one was injured, or at least we didn't receive any such reports.

Today's guest is Evan Herman of HRmanomics, which provides fractional, on-demand recruiting support to employers but, more importantly for our discussion, sales and other advisory services to talent acquisition technology companies including job boards a/k/a recruitment marketplaces.

Join us as Evan and Steven talk about the importance of understanding the problem that your customer is trying to solve, whether they're a recruitment agency or employer. Evan also shares with us what those problems typically are.

Our Cohost, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group is on a well-deserved, Italian vacation but fear not: his regular Cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter, is joined for today's episode by Chris Russell of RecTech Media and Guest Jim Stroud of SourceCon.

Most in the world of job boards and recruitment marketplaces know that some of their employer users are sourcers and other recruiters, but it may not be all that obvious just how differently those two groups use our sites. Jim defines for us what a sourcer is, how they use our sites, and the products we should offer to them if we want to win their business in this new age of artificial intelligence. 

His answer to that last question may surprise you.

A Glassdoor just user reported that it displayed her name beside her employer reviews despite her desire to be anonymous.

Did Glassdoor deliberately display her name? Was it user error? Was there a technical snafu? We don't know. But it seems likely that Glassdoor's acquisition of social networking site, Fishbowl, has caused it to collect personally identifiable information (PII) directly from its users and indirectly from unnamed, third parties. And that data is now accessible via subpoenas and hacks.

Join Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter as we learn from Aaron Mackey, attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about how Glassdoor might be shifting from being a powerful privacy advocate into a potential source of very sensitive information about its millions of users.

Friend of the podcast, George LaRocque of WorkTech, is back with us for the breaking news about the new guidance released by the U.S. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that promises to greatly impact the tech and probably legal expenses of every job board and recruitment marketplace that does any screening or selection of candidates, which would include any kind of matching or ranking of candidates. 

Join Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter as we discuss how tech providers can't merely point the finger at their employer clients or vice versa. As Workday is finding out now and DHI Group (parent of Dice) before, the U.S. government considers screening to be a staffing function, and if you're a staffing company then you're just as liable as your employer client.

Cohost Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group is traveling so unavailable for today's episode. Fear not, however, as our regular Cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter, is joined for today's episode by guest Cohost Jeff Dickey-Chasins a/k/a The Job Board Doctor.

Steven and Jeff interview Rodion Telpizov, CEO of SmartJobBoard to learn about how artificial intelligence and large language models are being used by job boards large and small. We also dig into how buying or leasing software from providers such as SmartJobBoard makes that feasible for many in our industry.

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, winter turned into spring and that's turning into summer. Yet somehow today's guest, Ryan Affolter of RogueHire, still managed to come down with a cold. But he persevered and Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter were very appreciative. 

Ryan has a couple of decades of experience buying, managing, and advising others on their recruitment advertising campaigns. In today's episode, he shares with us some of the key facets that healthcare employers care most about when deciding which job boards to use as sourcing tools.

When there's news about Indeed, there's no one better at deciphering it than Jim Durbin a/k/a The Indeed Whisperer.

Jim has been on just about every side of the recruitment marketing desk, including as a talent acquisition leader, at one of the world's largest recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) organizations, and now at the helm of Respondable Recruitment Marketing. 

Join Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter as we unpack the rumors about Indeed sending out letters to ad agencies (and perhaps others) telling them that organic (free) traffic is ending and all postings will need to be sponsored (paid). If Indeed matters to you, and it should, so will this episode.