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

Looking to exit? You need to do these three things.

July 9, 2026 • 17 mins
Our industry may be several decades old, but it seems like the pace of change has only been accelerating over the past couple of years. That change includes technology, but also leadership, investors, and ownership. Sarah White of Sarah White Advisory and Strategy Lemon joins the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast to talk about some of that change, with a focus on what owners, founders, and leaders should be th...
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Top 10 mistakes that job boards make

June 25, 2026 • 15 mins
The mad scientist of online recruiting a/k/a Chris Russell of RecTech Media / Job Board Secrets is the guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) is back from his fantastic vacation exploring some of the fantastic islands between Scotland and Iceland. Together with Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, we di...
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ATS and RPO: Friend or foe?

June 11, 2026 • 17 mins
We're taking a little trip down memory lane on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. One of our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group, is unavailable and so our other cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, is flying solo. Steven talks with Jeanette Leeds, COO of College Recruiter, about applicant tracking systems (ATS), recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) organizat...
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Will voice apply take over the world?

May 28, 2026 • 15 mins
If there's one thing that never changes about job boards it is that they never stop changing. Our businesses, at a very high level, are pretty much the same as they were when our industry came into existence in the 1990s. But, scratch the surface, and almost nothing is the same. A change that some believe is imminent is the replacement of the written job posting, resume, or both with something else. Could that something else be vo...
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State of the AI art in recruitment marketplaces

May 14, 2026 • 16 mins
Cohost Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group is home from Budapest, Hungary, the site of their 2026 RecBuzz conference. By all accounts, it was a tremendous success. Peter shares some of the highlights of the discussions with cohost Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, including the shift away from traditional metrics of success such as traffic, listings, and applications and to placement rates. SEEK, for example, is sayi...
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Why we need to treat candidates as participants, not inputs

April 30, 2026 • 20 mins
Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Saïd Eastman, a 20-year industry veteran and former executive at Monster and CareerBuilder. Cohost Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group is in Budapest, Hungary for its annual RecBuzz conference, so our other cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, talks with Saïd about how the stealth start-up that he is leading is aiming to bring muc...
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Done is a form of brave. Imperfect action is still action.

April 16, 2026 • 15 mins
Lee Cage Jr. is today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. He is the Director for Enterprise Transformation, Strategy, and Technology for BDO USA; a human resources management NCO for the U.S. Army National Guard; and the host of the "15 Minutes With" podcast, hosted by WRKdefined. Oh, and he's also a musician. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job sear...
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How to monetize without selling more postings or subscriptions?

April 2, 2026 • 16 mins
It's been a lean year for just about every job board in just about every country and niche. Customers aren't buying as many postings or resume/CV searching packages, and so revenues for many are flat or down. Are there other ways to both help and monetize the candidates who use our sites? Marc Belaiche, is the founder of Guhuza and TorontoJobs.ca. He joins cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Stev...
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Overcoming the challenges of diversifying into HR software

March 19, 2026 • 16 mins
It never ceases to amaze us how different companies in our space build their businesses. Some focus narrowly and try to dominate a niche. Others diversify into related businesses like ATS, career fairs,and employer branding. Przemek Gacek is the CEO of Grupa Pracuj, the dominant job board in Poland with significant business in Ukraine and Germany. During the Great Recession of 2009-10, they began to diversify into relate...
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You’re not LinkedIn or Indeed: How can you still succeed?

March 16, 2026 • 62 mins
For the past 1.5 years, our founder, Steven Rothberg, has hosted a very collegial and collaborative online meeting of dozens of leaders of job boards and recruitment marketplaces. The Job Board Leaders’ Roundtable meetings are held at 11:00am U.S. Eastern on the second Thursday of each month. They’re all free to everyone involved. Send an email to Steven at Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com to be added to the ...
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From listings to liaisons: Will AI agents replace job boards?

March 5, 2026 • 15 mins
Remember the days when a family member helped you write your resume / CV, found jobs that were a good match, and even submitted applications for you? AI can now do all of that for you, but that's not to say that it does it well. Yes, employers have AI agents that search for and contact candidates. And, yes, candidates have AI agents that search for and apply to jobs. But those agents can't find or communicate with each other, or ...
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Resurrecting an aggregator that used to be comparable to Indeed

February 19, 2026 • 15 mins
On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, we're joined by Kelly Gorfine of Horizon2Media, which 10 months ago acquired aggregator Zhejiang Jiuerjiu Chemicals Co.,LTD, and Christopher Campbell of Reticular Media. Together, they walk cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site and Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group through JuJu's history, its decline, Kelly's decision to acquire it...
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Building a massive audience using organic job distribution

February 5, 2026 • 14 mins
New sites in our industry often face a chicken-and-egg problem: do you need meaningful candidate engagement before you can get meaningful revenue from employers, or do you need meaningful employer engagement before you can get meaningful traffic? Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Timothy Makalinao of Bandana, a new job board based in Brooklyn, New York that cracked the secret to buildin...
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Who do we follow for content and news about the job board industry?

January 22, 2026 • 16 mins
Today's Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is a little different than what we usually do. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss the content creators we follow to keep up with developments in our industry. In alphabetic order, they include Heather Bussing, Kate...
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How I got 37,104 fake jobs and 7,000 fake profiles off LinkedIn

January 8, 2026 • 17 mins
On today's Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, we dive into an issue that impacts almost every site to some degree: fake jobs, candidate profiles, or both. Fraud prevention and scam investigation consultant JAY JONES is the owner of The Profiler Protection Service. And he's a man on a mission to protect all of us, including his job board and candidate clients, from fraud. For example, he hel...
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As some job boards embrace AI, does that create an opportunity for others?

December 25, 2025 • 17 mins
Matt Charney, principal analyst for industry and markets for Kyle & Co. and executive editor of Mediabistro, is our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. Cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site and Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) talk with Matt about the significant shift by t...
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How to predict hires in the absence of disposition data

December 11, 2025 • 17 mins
The need to collect and use disposition data has massively increased as recruitment advertising has moved from newspapers to traditional job boards to job boards which are largely performance-basis. But disposition data can mean differ things, and the ways of collecting and using it differ too. Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Jennifer Johansson, the founder and CEO of Placed. Since it...
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Jobs data in the AI era

November 27, 2025 • 16 mins
Our industry has existed for more than three decades, yet a still undervalued element of it is the data that almost any job board of any size possesses. And we're not talking about resumes / CVs. We're talking about the job postings. Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Patrick Martinchek of JobFront.io, which uses AI to scrape, enhance, distribute, and otherwise m...
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Breaking News: ChatGPT traffic worse than job boards, other sources

November 17, 2025 • 20 mins
There's been an widely held belief that users of ChatGPT and other LLMs are better informed and deliberative before clicking to visit a consumer site to buy a product or even apply to a job. That belief seems to be wrong. Today's guests on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast are Maximilian Kaiser of Grips Intelligence and Dr. Prof. Christian Schulze of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Togeth...
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Making data and connectivity your competitive advantage

November 13, 2025 • 15 mins
Today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast features a discussion on data and connectivity, both in terms of how job boards have used those as well as how, in the age of AI, they can and should be. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site are joined by Pietro Ma...
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