Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces

Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Bill Richards of WJR Advisory. Bill has worked for several, leading job boards including Indeed, eFinancialCareers, and Reed.co.uk and now advises others, including some new entrants into our space. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Bill about the impact that we're already seeing from the rapid adoption of AI but, more importantly, what we're likely to see and how we need to adapt. This is far from a Chicken Little conversation as no one talked about how AI is causing the sky to fall on our industry. Instead, the focus was on how best to adapt and prosper in this new environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, Linsey Fagan, global strategist at Indeed, joins us to talk about its new research into tech hiring. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Linsey about the overall health of tech hiring (spoiler alert: it isn't great) but how that varies markedly when you look at different segments, such as entry-level versus experienced or even in different geographic areas. There are also some findings that may surprise you, including how many tech workers are happy in their jobs, how many are looking, and how aggressively they're looking. Peter then asks about the many changes at Indeed, both in terms of its leadership as well as its products, and Linsey responds directly to both. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Hoogendijk, the head of product and operations for Aimwel, joins the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast to discuss new research by Aimwel into how Google's new, generative AI summaries above the traditional search results are killing traffic to job boards. Or is it? Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss with their guest the struggles that many job boards are experiencing, particularly those that, for years, relied exclusively on free (organic) traffic from Google and are now finding that much and sometimes most of that has vanished. AIM Group is about to publish a more in-depth story in its Recruitment Intelligence Report and Marketplace Report, so be sure to read those for more insights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, we learn about mergers and acquisitions from Patrick De Wachter of Mediahuis nv. Mediahuis features 1.4 million newspapers and more than two million digital news consumers per day in Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Germany. It's 6,000 employees work daily for its newspaper titles, radio and television channels, and online platforms. Patrick focuses on evaluating potential acquisition targets and divestiture opportunities. That's interesting enough in normal times, but these aren't normal times as technology and business models are rapidly evolving. Some of how he's approaching these challenges may be different from what you might have thought, and certainly was different from what was thought by our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's "breaking news" episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, we discuss yesterday's merger of recruitment automation platform Visage.Jobs with AI candidate sourcing tool Rolebot. Neither are job boards / recruitment marketplaces, but both are closely related. Our guest, Joss Leufrancois is the CEO of Visage. The newly combined company will operate under the Visage brand with Joss as the CEO. Our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, dig into the why's and how's of the acquisition, including how the conversations started; what attracted the organizations to each other; and was it a cash deal, stock swap, or something else? If you're looking to grow through acquisition, or exit, you'll appreciate a lot of what we learned from Joss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Employers, staffing agencies, RPOs, and employment advertising agencies are increasingly asking and even demanding from their job board / recruitment marketplace vendors that the candidates delivered be of higher quality, even if there is lower quantity. But are these requests actually driving purchasing and renewal decisions, or is it just talk? On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk about the quality versus quantity conundrum. Should our industry be accountable for quality? Is there any common, objective definition for what that means? Are employers ready, willing, and able to provide that data to us in a way that allows us take action on it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episodes of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast are typically 15-minutes. Long enough to get a good understanding of the topic, not long enough to bore the socks off of our audience. Cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site and Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) knew going into today's episode that the topic needed more time to do it justice, and so we are giving it that time. Our guest is Matteo Nicolo, director of international sales for CareerBuilder + Monster. Together, we talk a little about the history of Careerbuilder and Monster before they were combined by Randstad and Apollo Global Management, Inc., how they were operated after that combination, the impact of the recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and how terribly they're treating the couple of hundred European employees despite having far more financial resources than necessary in order to treat them humanely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Opeyemi Awoyemi of Fast Forward Venture Studio is our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. Join our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, as we learn more about venture capital, including what VCs want to see when they're considering investing in a job board / recruitment marketplace. Opeyemi was the founder of Jobberman Ghana and Jobberman Nigeria, two of Africa's leading job boards, and now owned by Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) and led by Hilda Kabushenga. After selling Jobberman, Opeyemi worked for Indeed and SimplyHired before starting Fast Forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast features not just one, but two superb guests: Robert Newry, chief explorer at Arctic Shores, and Martyn Redstone, founder of Eunomia HR.  Our regular cohost, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group, was unavailable but will be back with us in two weeks. Our other cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, discussed with Robert and Martyn how the use of some kinds of artificial intelligence (AI) in the hiring process is a good thing, but that the use of large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Anthropic, Grok, and others pose great dangers for employers.  Why? First, even if there weren't legal issues, they don't work well. They're good tools, but not well suited to that task. Second, despite what some of the TA tech vendors would like us all to believe, there are massive legal issues. Robert's "got to stop" post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-newry-2349596_ai-recruitment-arcticshores-activity-7339275826749734913-zg0u/ Martyn's LLM reality check document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XQvKDAOYtkCFBjPlDA2ipFmI6LzQRgHm/view Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you thinking of raising investment money or perhaps even selling your job board / recruitment marketplace? Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast lives and breathes that. Georgios Markakis the managing partner of Venero Capital Advisors, which does more investment and M&A deals in the HR tech space than any other firm.  Our cohost, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group, was unavailable for today's recording, but will be back with us a couple of episodes from now.  Our cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, talks with Georgios about the factors that go into the decision-making process for whether and when to raise investment money or even sell your business, including how to determine when the time is right and how to value your business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Durbin of Respondable Recruitment Media a/k/a The Indeed Whisperer is back with some more fantastic insight into changes announced by the world's largest job board, Indeed. Jim posted to LinkedIn earlier today that, effective immediately, Indeed will not accept any new, single-sourced feeds for integrated ATS partners in the U.S. So, what does that mean? As Jim wrote, "It means third-party agencies who have been doing the hard work of cleaning up your job postings are not going to be able to feed those jobs to Indeed anymore by XML. Instead, that information has to come from your ATS. "Let's say that you're a Fortune 1,000 company, government agency, or other employer hiring at scale. There's an excellent chance that you have an ATS, an ad agency, and a programmatic job ad distributor. Sometimes, your agency is also your programmatic vendor, such as Appcast, Radancy, and Shaker Recruitment Marketing. Until now, they may have scraped jobs from your ATS; cleaned up a LOT of the data; determined which jobs need traffic from Indeed, LinkedIn, Talent.com, College Recruiter, and other job boards; and sent them your CPCs or CPAs. Now, it seems you'll need to send the jobs directly to Indeed from your ATS. Is this a good change? In some ways, absolutely. But, even in those ways, it could be massively disruptive and painful for a lot of employers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Professionals who are new to an industry or just about any kind of startup face the same struggle: how to build their brand so that potential customers can find them when trying to determine if they can trust them enough to do business with them. Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Jason Barnard of Kalicube, which helps individuals build their personal brands online so that potential customers who are researching you get the information they need to feel comfortable enough to give you a chance. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site learn about how building your brand is linked to the importance of niching down by understanding the profile of your ideal customer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big news from the (by far) biggest job board / recruitment marketplace in the world. Indeed just announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Chris Hyams, is leaving effective immediately and being replaced by his predecessor, Hisayuki Idekoba, better known as Deko. No reason was given for Hyams' departure.  Deko will remain president and CEO of Indeed’s parent company, Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. He won't be relocating to Indeed's headquarters in Austin, Texas, however, as he's lived there for years. As reported by the AIM Group, "Deko led the acquisition of Indeed by Recruit Holdings in 2012, and served as CEO and president from 2013 to 2019. Hyams followed Deko as Indeed CEO. He joined the company as VP of product when it had 130 employees. In his note to the Indeed team, Hyams said traffic to the company has increased 15x and revenue has grown 200x."  Our cohost, Peter Zollman of the AIM Group, speculated that Deko will only be CEO temporarily and be replaced by Christian Sutherland-Wong the CEO of Indeed's sister site, Glassdoor. Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter speculated that Deko will be replaced by Chris Forman, who was the CEO of Appcast until he stepped aside at the end of 2024 in favor of Matt Molinari.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Sandra Feldmann, founder of Itsatalent.business. It's A Talent helps talent acquisition leaders improve their hiring practices and TA vendors better reach their customers, whether those are candidates, employers, or other stakeholders. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter talk with Sandra about how job boards a/k/a recruitment marketplaces are an important part of the hiring process, but typically only a minor part when everything else is considered. And how important a part our sites are varies widely depending on such factors as the job's location, occupational field, number of hires, employer brand, and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Vir Kashyap, general partner of Zeetah Holdings and Everywhere Ventures In 2009, Vir cofounded Babajob.com, India's largest, lightly skilled jobs marketplace. In 2018, became director of global strategies and operations for Indeed. Today, he invests in early-stage companies that leverage India. In today's episode, our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site explore with Vir how entry-level and blue-collar marketplaces look in developing versus developed countries, the impact of AI, and more. Oh, and some nice shout-outs for Christian Forman, founder of Appcast, Inc; and Job&Talent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, it is that it continually changes. How we attract candidates to the jobs advertised on our sites is undergoing massive change. Instead of Google being the starting point for most job searches and many of those going to our sites, candidates are increasingly starting their searches on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, Anthropic, and others.  If this only recently dawned on you, you're in good company. It was also new to the founder of Appcast, Chris Forman, until a couple of months ago. Search engine optimization consultants like Ken Shafer can help, but Ethan provides an excellent roadmap for our listeners too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 JumpStart HR, a strategic partner in HR consultancy and technology analysis. Sarah is now Senior Vice President, Head of Innovation & Transformation at SAP SuccessFactors.  In Tami's conversation with cohosts Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, she makes the case that HR budgets haven't changed much overall, but what has changed over the past couple of years is that the buyers are being much more careful about where they spend their money. What has also changed is that employers who placed great value on the volume of applications in 2021 and 2022 no longer do. Instead, they're far more focused on the quality of those applications.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site explore why hyper-local job listings benefit candidates and employers and how Mark's team successfully markets those listings through reseller arrangements with payroll, background check, and other such organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 accept them. When they do, the employer pays. In today's episode, our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss with Mark why, as Cory Kapner of Recruitics says, some friction in the hiring process is a good thing and charging candidates a nominal fee to apply to a job, as Alexander Chukovski of crypto-careers.com suggested on LinkedIn, is a good idea but not without its own problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 (founder of Monster); Steven will discuss USA diversity and other hiring issues on Hung Lee's Recruiting Brainfood on March 21st; and Peter will at RecBuzz in Vienna on April 8th and 9th. Diversity means very different things in different markets. In the U.S., it has been far more about legal compliance than in Canada and some other markets. Shauna talks about that, including providing insights into the make-up of her employer customers and how different customers evaluate her site differently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices