Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces
Episodes
Why we need to treat candidates as participants, not inputs
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Saïd Eastman, a 20-year industry veteran and former executive at Monst...
Done is a form of brave. Imperfect action is still action.
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Lee Cage Jr. is today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. He is the Director for Enterprise Transformation, Strateg...
How to monetize without selling more postings or subscriptions?
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 sear...
Overcoming the challenges of diversifying into HR software
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 diver...
You’re not LinkedIn or Indeed: How can you still succeed?
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
From listings to liaisons: Will AI agents replace job boards?
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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? ...
Resurrecting an aggregator that used to be comparable to Indeed
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Building a massive audience using organic job distribution
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Who do we follow for content and news about the job board industry?
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is a little different than what we usually do. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Gr...
How I got 37,104 fake jobs and 7,000 fake profiles off LinkedIn
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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, ca...
As some job boards embrace AI, does that create an opportunity for others?
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
How to predict hires in the absence of disposition data
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The need to collect and use disposition data has massively increased as recruitment advertising has moved from newspapers to traditional job boards to...
Jobs data in the AI era
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 possesse...
Breaking News: ChatGPT traffic worse than job boards, other sources
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Making data and connectivity your competitive advantage
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast features a discussion on data and connectivity, both in terms of how j...
We were there. What we learned.
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our cohosts, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site and Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group get together for an episode with a few tricks ...
AI platform that applies to roles on LinkedIn, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is John Marino, the cofounder and CEO of Mashalot AI, a very new entra...
Conferences: Where partnerships and M&A take place
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, cohosts Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classified...
How AI is poised to disrupt online job search
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Indeed is reporting interesting shifts in its tech talent research
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, Linsey Fagan, global strategist at Indeed, joins us to talk about it...
Impact of Google's AI summaries on job board traffic
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Hoogendijk, the head of product and operations for Aimwel, joins the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast to discuss new resea...
From niche to mass niche: Mediahuis' job board acquisition strategy
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, we learn about mergers and acquisitions from Patrick De Wachter o...
Recruitment automation platform Visage acquires Rolebot
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today's "breaking news" episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, we discuss yesterday's merger of recruitment automa...
Quality vs quantity: how do employers really buy?
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Employers, staffing agencies, RPOs, and employment advertising agencies are increasingly asking and even demanding from their job board / recruitment ...
Monstered by Randstad and Apollo: The Debacle in Europe
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episodes of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast are typically 15-minutes. Long enough to get a good understanding of the topic,...
What VCs look for when investing in recruitment marketplaces
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Opeyemi Awoyemi of Fast Forward Venture Studio is our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. Joi...
Dangers of using LLMs to rank, screen, and even select candidates
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast features not just one, but two superb guests: Robert Newry, chief expl...
Mergers, acquisitions, and investment activity
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you thinking of raising investment money or perhaps even selling your job board / recruitment marketplace? Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards...
Breaking news: Indeed won't accept jobs via XML from agencies, employers
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The struggles (and solution) to identifying your ideal customer profile
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 customer...
Is it Groundhog Day? Indeed replaces its current CEO with its previous CEO
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big news from the (by far) biggest job board / recruitment marketplace in the world. Indeed just announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Chris...
How our employer customers attract, engage, and hire
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Sandra Feldmann, founder of Itsatalent.business. It...
Do blue-collar sites differ in developing vs developed countries?
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Vir Kashyap, general partner of Zeetah Holdings and Ev...
What happens to your business if ChatGPT replaces Google?
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ethan Bloomfield, long-time industry veteran, one of the first employees at ZipRecruiter, and founder of consultancy firm, VitalFew, is our special g...
What trends are shaping how employers buy and implement HR tech today?
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Market...
Are job boards doing enough to promote hyper-local job listings?
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Tackling face applicants using pricing
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
How are diversity job boards adapting to changing political climates
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, C...
Does a key founder of our industry have the ability to now fix it?
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The earliest job boards, including Online Career Center and TheMonsterBoard, grew out of the pre-web bulletin boards. Our guest today on the Inside Jo...
Community-as-a-Service, on-demand, global, hiring ecosystem
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Appcast's 2025 Recruitment Marketing Benchmark Report
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our regular cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, are working their way through the ...
How does AI impact recruiters?
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Terry Baker, the CEO of Daxtra Technologies. Daxtra i...
Partnering with third-parties to better monetize candidate users
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Brandon Mitchell, founder and CEO of WriteSea, which s...
Uniqueness and potential of Japanese, other Asian markets
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Kaori Kido, the Global Business Development Manager of...
What will 2025 bring to our industry?
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ste...
Employers need to be authentic and even authenticated
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet brought with it countless changes to society. For example, employers no longer control their employer brand. If past, present, and future...
Are podcasts good for attracting candidates and employers?
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Impact of the U.S. Presidential election on the job board industry
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, the...
Breaking news: JobGet acquires Snagajob
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
JobGet today acquired SnagAJob, its 3rd acquisition in 18 months. JobGet is an app-first platform for quickly hiring hourly workers. In that niche, ...
Indeed sued and LinkedIn fined
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Another week, another fine...and another lawsuit. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter get together for a l...
How AI is changing targeting and engaging with candidates
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 hors...
Breaking News: Layoffs and Lawsuits
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The newly combined organization of Monster + Careerbuilder has apparently undergone a round of layoffs. Information is sketchy so far, but it appears ...
Resurrecting a well-known brand: The rebirth of Jobster
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 fou...
Dispelling the myths: How job seekers are actually using AI
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Wood of The Hub is our guest today to help us separate fact from fiction: are job seekers actually using AI to apply to a massive number of jobs, ...
EU, UK, and USA labor markets today and tomorrow
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Julius Probst of Appcast and The Stepstone Group joins the podcast today to talk about how the labor markets impact job boards and recruitment mar...
When to use off-the-shelf instead of custom-built job board software
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marty Aghajanyan, Founder and CEO of JBoard, is today's guest. We talk about when new or even existing job boards should use off-the-shelf software ...
Can we use data to create better experiences for our users?
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Virtually every site that buys or sells traffic on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis does so by pulling candidates into their site, programmatically distri...
Will job matching platforms defeat CPC aggregators?
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest, Dylan Buckley of DirectlyApply, joins us from London, U.K. but their business only serves the U.S. market. Even more unusually, they're...
Breaking News: Julie and Chad Sowash acquire JobBoardDoctor LLC
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's always great to see great things happening to great people. On today's episode, we learn more about that happening. Viewers may know Julie Sowash...
3 must have's for successful job match alert emails
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Industry veteran, Christopher Campbell of Reticular Media, joins us today for an episode that will be of great interest to any job board / recruitment...
Breaking News: Monster and CareerBuilder combine forces
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do failed retailers K-Mart and Sears have in common with Monster and CareerBuilder? In both cases, you've got organizations that were large, vibr...
Revenue slump: Is it short-term or permanent?
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cohost Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group is back from his well-deserved break and discusses with Cohost Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter whether job b...
You need to sell differently to agencies versus corporate recruiters
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our illustrious Cohost, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group was traveling back from Europe to his home in Orlando, Florida today and so our other Cohost, St...
Are sourcers using job boards differently than they used to?
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our Cohost, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group is on a well-deserved, Italian vacation but fear not: his regular Cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruit...
Breaking News: U.S. regulatory changes about to disrupt HR Tech
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friend of the podcast, George LaRocque of WorkTech, is back with us for the breaking news about the new guidance released by the U.S. Office of Federa...
Is Glassdoor now violating user privacy and anonymity?
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Glassdoor just user reported that it displayed her name beside her employer reviews despite her desire to be anonymous. Did Glassdoor deliberately ...
How AI and LLMs are impacting job board tech
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cohost Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group is traveling so unavailable for today's episode. Fear not, however, as our regular Cohost, Steven Rothberg of Col...
How healthcare recruitment marketers evaluate job boards
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, winter turned into spring and that's turning into summer. Yet somehow today's guest, Ryan Affolter of Rogu...
Impact of Indeed killing organic postings for employers
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When there's news about Indeed, there's no one better at deciphering it than Jim Durbin a/k/a The Indeed Whisperer. Jim has been on just about every ...
Can an AI-powered job search agent succeed?
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Virtually all of us have sat on the other side of the desk as a job seeker. Our searches were often frustrating and, quite frankly, lonely. Today's g...
Why job search is broken
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Job boards a/k/a recruitment marketplaces are mostly double-sided marketplaces, meaning they have two customer groups: (1) employers and other adverti...
How this platform helps employers hire globally in 48 hours
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When is a recruitment-related platform not a job board or recruitment marketplace? When it is complementary to those. Oyster is one such company. Oys...
How video offers job seekers an authentic glimpse into an employer
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most job boards only one or two products: (1) CV / resume searching and (2) job ads. But if you're looking for additional revenue, then you probably t...
Will job boards still be relevant in the future of recruiting?
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is special to Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter as we take a moment to mark the passing o...
Breaking News: Are Google Job ads dead even before emerging from alpha?
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, what seemed to be a pretty uneventful day in the world of job boards and other recruitment marketplaces has proven to be anything but uneventful...
Why should we use qualitative instead of quantitative data?
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group, is home in warm Orlando, Florida while the other, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter, chose to wo...
Our favorite conferences and trade shows for sales and partnerships
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chances are that you've at least considered attending at least one industry-related conference this year, whether you're new to the job board and recr...
Is the state of the industry radically different in different markets?
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our last episode for 2023, Cohost Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site is joined by Jobrapido's Ani Sargsyan, Sales Director - Nort...
Just two guys with a podcast...and some predictions for 2024
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just when you thought the holiday season couldn't get any better (worse?), along comes a show about job boards / recruitment marketplaces full of pred...
Breaking News: Indeed kills its cost-per-application product
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huge news from Indeed, the company that popularized performance-based pricing for job posting ads: effective December 18th, it will cease selling post...
Will AI force a shift in pricing models to CPQVA?
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Collins is a serial HR / TA Tech founder and investor with three successful exits: Jobsite Worldwide, R21media, and ClickIQ. His new venture, ...
What do frontline workers want when looking for a new job?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Maybank is the CEO and Cofounder of Breakroom, a UK-based, VC-backed, job search platform for frontline workers. Without a doubt, she brought the...
Breaking News: Massive UX update hits Google Jobs
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Google Jobs just released the most significant change to its user experience in seven years. The impact on the organic traffic that Google delivers to...
Why this financial fund is investing in our industry
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Bielinko is a Partner in Australia-based Telstra Ventures. Telstra's mission is to invest in market-leading, high-growth technology companie...
Breaking News: Employment ad agency Radancy buys virtual career fair Brazen
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Radancy, one of the world's largest employment advertising agencies, is continuing to evolve into more of an HR tech company. Over the past four ye...
Plans revealed by one of the world's top job posting aggregators
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The company has been operating in the online recruitment market since 2006. In its 17 years of existence, the company has gone from a startup founded ...
Breaking News: Appcast reveals its plans about selling traffic to job boards
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Appcast, arguably the world's leading programmatic job ad distributor, purchased on July 10th Bayard Advertising, one of the world's leading employmen...
October: the month of pumpkin spice and conferences
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
October is widely known for a few things: when the seasons change, pumpkin-spiced flavored coffee at Starbucks and just about everywhere else, and con...
Lawsuit Update: Denmark's top job site goes to war against Google
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter welcome today's guest, Kaare Danielsen, the Co-Founder, Chief Executive...
What to expect at next month's Job Boards Connect conference
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter interview Louise Grant and Louise Triance, Co-Found...
What can job boards do to move the industry forward?
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site welcome Brad Boggs, formerly of Di...
If you can't measure it, you can't manage it
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Quigg is the CEO of Public Insight Corporation, which provides strategic market insights that optimize talent acquisition strategies and improve e...
How to start a new job board / recruitment marketplace
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Yamada-Hanff, the Founder of newly launched GreenJobs.com joins Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter jo...
Rapid Fire Round Table: Biggest Problems (and Solutions) in TA Tech
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode brings Cohosts Peter Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter together with 15 of the brightest minds in our indu...
Why Berlin-based Joblift focuses on the blue-collar niche
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lukas Erlebach, Cofounder and CEO of Joblift was scheduled to join Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job ...
Breaking News: Appcast buys Bayard Advertising
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, Germany-based Stepstone, one of the world's largest job board / recruitment marketplaces companies, purchased U.S.-based Appcast, one of the ...
What to do (and not do) if you're trying to sell your niche job board
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan St. Germaine is a Founder, former CEO, and Advisor who led multiple recruitment technology companies including BCjobs.ca and Jobcast. From 2005-...
How to scale your niche job board through partnerships
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Niche job boards a/k/a recruitment marketplaces often struggle to scale. They may not have enough jobs, candidates, or both. They often lack the right...
Veritone leaders discuss its pending purchase of Broadbean
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Veritone, Inc., a leader in enterprise AI software and services, announced on May 31st its agreement to acquire job ad distributor Broadbean from Care...
Google's new sponsored jobs product and search results
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter are joined by Mark Parent, the CEO of Ment Digital, which helps its job...