Episodes

  • From listings to liaisons: Will AI agents replace job boards?

    From listings to liaisons: Will AI agents replace job boards?
    Mar 5 2026
    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 can they? Today's guest on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast is Tom Chevalier, former product manager at Appcast, Inc and now the founder of start-up Tink AI, a meeting place of sorts for employer and candidate AI agents. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss with Tom whether AI agents spell doom for job boards. His direct and confident answer may surprise you.
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    16 mins
  • Resurrecting an aggregator that used to be comparable to Indeed

    Resurrecting an aggregator that used to be comparable to Indeed
    Feb 19 2026
    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, and how its business model will and will not change. Some of what won't changed might surprise you, and some of what will change will almost certainly surprise you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
  • Building a massive audience using organic job distribution

    Building a massive audience using organic job distribution
    Feb 5 2026
    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 building massive organic traffic without first winning a massive employer engagement. How? By using LLMs and other tech to create a superior candidate experience and really, really understanding the nuances of its local markets. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss with Tim his family's immigrant success story, the origins of Bandana, and what's next in this inspiring story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 mins
  • Who do we follow for content and news about the job board industry?

    Who do we follow for content and news about the job board industry?
    Jan 22 2026
    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 Bischoff, Joel Cheesman, Gerry Crispin, Jeff Dickey-Chasins, Adam Gordon, Chris Hoyt, Jon Hyman, Jeanette Leeds, Hung Lee, Chris Russell, Chad Sowash, Julie Sowash, John Sumser, and Kevin Wheeler. Oh, and each other. Some publish e-newsletters, others podcasts or webcasts. Some do more than one. Some are available for free. Others cost money, but are well worth it. Who did we miss? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 mins
  • How I got 37,104 fake jobs and 7,000 fake profiles off LinkedIn

    How I got 37,104 fake jobs and 7,000 fake profiles off LinkedIn
    Jan 8 2026
    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 helped Teal get 150 fake jobs removed from LinkedIn (see https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonesdoyoucopy_theprofiler-activity-7407362764278632448-ftVr ). Together with cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site and Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds), we learn how to find the fraudulent content, the impact it can have if left unchecked, why our industry is vulnerable to it, and how to get it removed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 mins
  • As some job boards embrace AI, does that create an opportunity for others?

    As some job boards embrace AI, does that create an opportunity for others?
    Dec 25 2025
    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 the biggest sites in our industry to the use of AI to, hopefully, better match candidates with jobs, and the inability and fear of smaller players to even fight let alone win that battle. Matt believes the smaller players already and will increasing have advantages, and we discuss those. We also dive into the article he wrote months ago for the Transform Blog about the impact AI is having in the workplace and how none of the workers knew on which job board they applied through. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 mins
  • How to predict hires in the absence of disposition data

    How to predict hires in the absence of disposition data
    Dec 11 2025
    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 its founding in 2016, it's grown from being a UK-based app focused on frontline hiring to also helping employers with non-frontline roles and also in Germany and the United States. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss with Jennifer why Placed collects and uses data such as applications, interviews, offers, and even hires and where it can be a challenge to do so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 mins
  • Jobs data in the AI era

    Jobs data in the AI era
    Nov 27 2025
    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 manage job data at scale. It's customers include job boards but, more interestingly, organizations who recognize that job data reflects problems and opportunities faced by the employers and might impact their financial prospects. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss with Patrick use cases for the data, some of which have become economically viable because of the plummeting cost of using OpenAI and its competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 mins