Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces

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.

Episodes

May 1, 2025 16 mins
Ethan Bloomfield, long-time industry veteran, one of the first employees at ZipRecruiter, and founder of consultancy firm, VitalFew, is our special guest for this special episode.  Yes, this is our 100th episode. Pardon our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, while they pat themselves on their backs. If there's one thing that has remained unchanged about our industry, i...
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Tami Nutt, the vice president of research and insights for Aspect43 is our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. Aspect43 is an advisory firm whose clients are the HR solution providers, including job boards / recruitment marketplaces, and whose audience are the buyers of those products. Aspect43 was founded by Sarah White, who recently sold the advisory firm to Joey Price's JumpSta...
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Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Mark Emery, founder and CEO of Juvo Jobs a/k/a Juvo360. Juvo Jobs is a great example of a job board / recruitment marketplace that helps millions of candidates find jobs, does so in an innovative manner, yet isn't in the headlines nearly as much as the biggest players. In today's episode, our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketp...
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March 20, 2025 15 mins
Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Mark Chaffey, the cofounder and CEO of UK-based hackajob. Hackajob matches candidates with tech jobs in the UK, USA, and India. Candidates do not apply to jobs but, instead, the employer applies to the candidates. The employer describes the role, the AI lists matches, the employer requests interviews, and the candidates choose whether to a...
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Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Shauna Cole, the president and founder of a leading, Canadian, diversity job board, hirediverse.ca. Before we even started to speak with Shauna, our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, mentioned that last week's guest was another founder, Jeff Taylor ...
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The earliest job boards, including Online Career Center and TheMonsterBoard, grew out of the pre-web bulletin boards. Our guest today on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Jeff Taylor, founder of TheMonsterBoard, which re-branded as Monster and was instrumental in creating our industry. Our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job sea...
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Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Sunkanmi Ola, co-founder and CEO of Propel, which is building the largest ecosystem of tech talent communities across the world - over 200 specialized communities, with 800,000+ members spread across 22 countries and three continents. Together with cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, we learn ab...
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Our regular cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, are working their way through the 2025 Appcast Recruitment Benchmark Report.  As usual, the report is full of great information. Rather than making you wait for our analysis, we thought it would be fun to use Google's new NotebookLM product to create a quick podcast episode. Listen in as the guest AI cohosts discuss the find...
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February 6, 2025 18 mins
Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Terry Baker, the CEO of Daxtra Technologies. Daxtra is a world-leading specialist in high-accuracy, multilingual job and resume parsing, semantic search, matching, and recruitment automation. Employers use Daxtra to manage all of their candidate interactions instead of having to log in and do so through their ATS, various job boards they'...
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Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Brandon Mitchell, founder and CEO of WriteSea, which sells AI-driven career tools designed to enhance the job search experience, improve placement rates, and drive better outcomes for candidates. Our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, explore with Brandon why offering freemium s...
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Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Kaori Kido, the Global Business Development Manager of Kakaku.com's Kyujin Box Media Planning Dept., better known outside of Japan as Jobcube. Kyujin Box is one of Japan's leading job boards / recruitment marketplaces. In Japan, its customers are mostly employers and staffing companies. A couple of years ago, it began to expand into other ...
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December 26, 2024 17 mins
The end of any year tends to bring out the prognosticators and, with them, lists of predictions. Our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter, decided not to disappoint those who really, really want to learn what we're thinking about for 2025. In today's episode, we each share our thoughts about how AI will be used by job boards / recruitment marketplaces, the economics impacting our businesse...
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The Internet brought with it countless changes to society. For example, employers no longer control their employer brand. If past, present, and future employees are largely in control of your employer brand, your job posting ads and other marketing materials be authentic. But job ads from those looking to steal the data of those interested in working for you have also made authentication important. So, now, it isn't just important ...
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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 Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds); and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site. In addition to some jokes about turkey, we d...
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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 M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter discuss what leaders in our industry should expect over the coming mo...
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November 16, 2024 14 mins
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 interview with JobGet's CEO, Tony Liu, he acknowledged some overlap between users but indicated that much of the data that Snagajob had...
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October 31, 2024 14 mins
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 Indeed being sued for patent infringement. Whether the lawsuit has merits or not is unknown at this point, but neither Peter nor Steve...
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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 vendors, and others. However, its impact isn't all that different from the impact of other technologies when they were new. Our regular...
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October 10, 2024 14 mins
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 of ZipRecruiter apparently posted to LinkedIn and otherwise communicated with customers of Indeed information that may have been misl...
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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 attempted to combine the best of social media, which was in its infancy at the time, and job boards, which weren't much older. Within a c...
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