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  • What VCs look for when investing in recruitment marketplaces

    What VCs look for when investing in recruitment marketplaces
    2025/07/24
    Opeyemi Awoyemi of Fast Forward Venture Studio is our guest on today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast. Join our cohosts, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, as we learn more about venture capital, including what VCs want to see when they're considering investing in a job board / recruitment marketplace. Opeyemi was the founder of Jobberman Ghana and Jobberman Nigeria, two of Africa's leading job boards, and now owned by Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) and led by Hilda Kabushenga. After selling Jobberman, Opeyemi worked for Indeed and SimplyHired before starting Fast Forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 分
  • Dangers of using LLMs to rank, screen, and even select candidates

    Dangers of using LLMs to rank, screen, and even select candidates
    2025/07/10
    Today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast features not just one, but two superb guests: Robert Newry, chief explorer at Arctic Shores, and Martyn Redstone, founder of Eunomia HR. Our regular cohost, Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group, was unavailable but will be back with us in two weeks. Our other cohost, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site, discussed with Robert and Martyn how the use of some kinds of artificial intelligence (AI) in the hiring process is a good thing, but that the use of large language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Anthropic, Grok, and others pose great dangers for employers. Why? First, even if there weren't legal issues, they don't work well. They're good tools, but not well suited to that task. Second, despite what some of the TA tech vendors would like us all to believe, there are massive legal issues. Robert's "got to stop" post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-newry-2349596_ai-recruitment-arcticshores-activity-7339275826749734913-zg0u/ Martyn's LLM reality check document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XQvKDAOYtkCFBjPlDA2ipFmI6LzQRgHm/view Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    20 分
  • Mergers, acquisitions, and investment activity

    Mergers, acquisitions, and investment activity
    2025/06/26
    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 分
  • Breaking news: Indeed won't accept jobs via XML from agencies, employers

    Breaking news: Indeed won't accept jobs via XML from agencies, employers
    2025/06/24
    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 分
  • The struggles (and solution) to identifying your ideal customer profile

    The struggles (and solution) to identifying your ideal customer profile
    2025/06/12
    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 分
  • 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
    2025/06/05
    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 分
  • How our employer customers attract, engage, and hire

    How our employer customers attract, engage, and hire
    2025/05/29
    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 分
  • Do blue-collar sites differ in developing vs developed countries?

    Do blue-collar sites differ in developing vs developed countries?
    2025/05/15
    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 分