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  • Mergers, acquisitions, and investment activity

    Mergers, acquisitions, and investment activity
    Jun 26 2025
    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
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    17 min
  • Breaking news: Indeed won't accept jobs via XML from agencies, employers

    Breaking news: Indeed won't accept jobs via XML from agencies, employers
    Jun 24 2025
    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
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    23 min
  • The struggles (and solution) to identifying your ideal customer profile

    The struggles (and solution) to identifying your ideal customer profile
    Jun 12 2025
    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
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    17 min
  • Is it Groundhog Day? Indeed replaces its current CEO with its previous CEO

    Is it Groundhog Day? Indeed replaces its current CEO with its previous CEO
    Jun 5 2025
    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
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    15 min
  • How our employer customers attract, engage, and hire

    How our employer customers attract, engage, and hire
    May 29 2025
    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
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    16 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 min