Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces

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 w...

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 w...

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 applyi...

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 niche ...

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 tod...

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:...

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 req...

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 Classif...

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 chance...

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 dest...

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...

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.

Job boards, ...

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 tradition...