Well, that took a while. So long, in fact, that I don’t even remember who the last CEO was at Monster. Better late than never, I guess, as Monster … Read more
Glassdoor Acquisition Is Another Step in Making Recruit Holdings a Global Employment Leade…
Glassdoor, the employer reviews and jobs listing site, is being bought by Recruit Holdings, parent company of the international job board Indeed. The $1.2 … Read more
My Initial Thoughts on The Glassdoor Acquisition
Glassdoor didn’t make much of a splash when it launched back in 2008. Job boards like Monster, CareerBuilder, and HotJobs owned the headlines, while … Read more
Surprise! Glassdoor Sold for More than a Billion
Glassdoor’s plans for an IPO have long been one of talent-acquisition’s worst-kept secrets; 2018 was perhaps finally going to be the year, and … Read more
New Commercials From Monster Push Mobile Apps
Monster has a handful of new TV commercials running nationally. In a world where ads from ZipRecruiter and Indeed are inescapable, it’s a welcome … Read more
Monster Touts ‘Humanizing’ Job Search With Latest Updates
At its core, the Internet isn’t particularly human. That help-wanted sign in the window of your local convenient store is even less so. Putting … Read more
New Ownership at CareerBuilder Means Cost-Cutting, Layoffs, and Departing Executives
It’s not 1999 anymore. There was a time when anything with a dot-com at the end of it was akin to a rocket ship blasting to a moon made of money. Job … Read more
Google for Jobs Expands to Canada, India
If you’re a job board outside the U.S., consider yourself warned. Google is coming. It was a just a matter of time, but Google is finally rolling out … Read more
CareerBuilder Sells Labor Market Analytics Firm Emsi to Strada
Sell! Sell! Sell! Keeping in tune with the private-equity playbook, it was just a matter of time before Apollo Global, CareerBuilder’s majority … Read more
Details of Indeed’s Acquisition of Canada’s Workopolis Are Coming to Light
When Indeed announced it had purchased Workopolis, a well-known job board in Canada on April 4, the reasoning behind such a move was a mystery. By most … Read more