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PODCAST

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces

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In each episode, Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter and Peter Zollman of the AIM Group analyze news about general, niche, and aggregator job board and recruitment marketplace sites. With guests from the world"s leading job sites, and people who follow or work with them, Steven and Peter dive into the tactics and strategies used by sites that dominate their markets or are the most innovative --- or both. Each episode will give you actionable takeaways, whether you"re an employer looking to improve

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All Episodes

16:00

How to monetize without selling more postings or...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2026/04/02

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 searching packages, and so revenues for many are flat or down. Are there other ways to both help and monetize the candidates who use our sites?Marc Belaiche, is the founder of Guhuza and TorontoJobs.ca. He joins cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site to discuss

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16:34

Overcoming the challenges of diversifying into HR...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2026/03/19

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 diversify into related businesses like ATS, career fairs,and employer branding.Przemek Gacek is the CEO of Grupa Pracuj, the dominant job board in Poland with significant business in Ukraine and Germany. During the Great Recession of 2009-10, they began to diversify into related businesses, which made them a more strategic vendor for employers and better

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62:29

You’re not LinkedIn or Indeed: How can you still...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2026/03/16

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 and recruitment marketplaces. The Job Board Leaders’ Roundtable meetings are held at 11:00am U.S. Eastern on the second Thursday of each month. They’re all free to everyone involved. Send an email to Steven at Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com to be added to the invitation list for future events. Initially, the meetings had no real agenda but were just

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15:55

From listings to liaisons: Will AI agents replace job...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2026/03/05

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

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15:04

Resurrecting an aggregator that used to be comparable...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2026/02/19

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

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14:37

Building a massive audience using organic job...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2026/02/05

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

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16:49

Who do we follow for content and news about the job...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2026/01/22

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

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17:26

How I got 37,104 fake jobs and 7,000 fake profiles...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2026/01/08

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

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17:04

As some job boards embrace AI, does that create an...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/12/25

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

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17:04

How to predict hires in the absence of disposition data

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/12/11

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

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14:28

Jobs data in the AI era

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/11/27

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,

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20:31

Breaking News: ChatGPT traffic worse than job boards,...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/11/17

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 to buy a product or even apply to a job. That belief seems to be wrong.Today's guests on the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast are Maximilian Kaiser of Grips Intelligence and Dr. Prof. Christian Schulze of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Together, they just published a paper at

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15:08

Making data and connectivity your competitive advantage

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/11/13

Today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast features a discussion on data and connectivity, both in terms of how job boards have used those as well as how, in the age of AI, they can and should be.Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site are joined by Pietro Manenti of HrFlow.ai, which is on a mission to make AI and data integration pipelines a commodity. If your use of data is

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16:02

We were there. What we learned.

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/10/30

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 and, hopefully, a lot of treats.They talk about what they learned on the fall conference circuit, and it was a lot. Peter discusses promising demos of new AI-powered hiring systems being rolled out by Indeed, LinkedIn, and other giants of our industry. Steven agrees with the promise of those outliers, but focuses more on what the small- and medium-sized

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15:31

AI platform that applies to roles on LinkedIn,...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/10/16

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 entrant into our space with a very different business model.John's vision for the new venture was born out of the frustration that he and his 19-year-old son experienced when applying to jobs on some of the largest job boards. The idea was to use AI to automate the search and application process and, instead of charging employers to advertise their job

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17:07

Conferences: Where partnerships and M&A take place

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/10/02

On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, cohosts Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk about how buyers and sellers of job boards and other businesses go to conferences not just to learn about mergers and acquisitions, but also create those opportunities.Peter talks about some of the great people that he just saw at HR Tech including George LaRocque, Sarah White, and Mark

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17:32

How AI is poised to disrupt online job search

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/09/18

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 boards including Indeed, eFinancialCareers, and Reed.co.uk and now advises others, including some new entrants into our space.Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Bill about the impact that we're already seeing from the rapid adoption of AI but, more

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19:55

Indeed is reporting interesting shifts in its tech...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/09/15

On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, Linsey Fagan, global strategist at Indeed, joins us to talk about its new research into tech hiring.Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site talk with Linsey about the overall health of tech hiring (spoiler alert: it isn't great) but how that varies markedly when you look at different segments, such as entry-level versus experienced or even in different geographic

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15:53

Impact of Google's AI summaries on job board traffic

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/09/04

Peter Hoogendijk, the head of product and operations for Aimwel, joins the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast to discuss new research by Aimwel into how Google's new, generative AI summaries above the traditional search results are killing traffic to job boards. Or is it? Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site discuss with their guest the struggles that many job boards are experiencing,

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17:15

From niche to mass niche: Mediahuis' job board...

Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces ·

2025/08/21

On today's episode of the Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast, we learn about mergers and acquisitions from Patrick De Wachter of Mediahuis nv.Mediahuis features 1.4 million newspapers and more than two million digital news consumers per day in Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Germany. It's 6,000 employees work daily for its newspaper titles, radio and television channels, and online platforms. Patrick focuses on evaluating potential acquisition targets and

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