Episodes

  • Do blue-collar sites differ in developing vs developed countries?

    Do blue-collar sites differ in developing vs developed countries?
    May 15 2025
    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
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    17 mins
  • What happens to your business if ChatGPT replaces Google?

    What happens to your business if ChatGPT replaces Google?
    May 1 2025
    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
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    16 mins
  • What trends are shaping how employers buy and implement HR tech today?

    What trends are shaping how employers buy and implement HR tech today?
    Apr 17 2025
    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
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    16 mins
  • Are job boards doing enough to promote hyper-local job listings?

    Are job boards doing enough to promote hyper-local job listings?
    Apr 3 2025
    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
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    16 mins
  • Tackling face applicants using pricing

    Tackling face applicants using pricing
    Mar 20 2025
    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
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    16 mins
  • How are diversity job boards adapting to changing political climates

    How are diversity job boards adapting to changing political climates
    Mar 6 2025
    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
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    15 mins
  • Does a key founder of our industry have the ability to now fix it?

    Does a key founder of our industry have the ability to now fix it?
    Feb 25 2025
    The earliest job boards, including Online Career Center and TheMonsterBoard, grew out of the pre-web bulletin boards. Our guest today on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Jeff Taylor, founder of TheMonsterBoard, which re-branded as Monster and was instrumental in creating our industry. Our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, talk with Jeff about what caused him to found Monster, some of the early challenges, how our industry is still struggling with some of those challenges, and what is coming next. Jeff's new venture, BoomBand is set to launch this fall. It promises to push AI/machine learning to map the talent landscape and re-imagine the tools, user interface, and career flows to present candidates and employers with new ways to engage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 mins
  • Community-as-a-Service, on-demand, global, hiring ecosystem

    Community-as-a-Service, on-demand, global, hiring ecosystem
    Feb 20 2025
    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 largest ecosystem of tech talent communities across the world - over 200 specialized communities, with 800,000+ members spread across 22 countries and three continents. Together with cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, we learn about a very different way of identifying, reaching, and engaging candidates than that used by most job boards and recruitment marketplaces. If Reddit ran job postings and otherwise enabled employers to engage with its users, you'd have a platform somewhat like Propel. Some communities on Propel are for Java developers in a particular metro and were created by Propel. Others existed in real life before Propel even existed and have now migrated partially or even fully to the Propel platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    19 mins