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  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • 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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    14 min
  • Breaking News: ChatGPT traffic worse than job boards, other sources

    Breaking News: ChatGPT traffic worse than job boards, other sources
    Nov 17 2025
    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 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5585812 , which shows that traffic from traditional sources such as job boards and Google convert at a much higher rate than traffic from LLMs, although the gap is narrowing. Cohosts Peter M. Zollman of AIM Group (Marketplaces / Classifieds) and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site ask why traffic from traditional sites converts better, if the impact on career sites differs from shopping sites, and how long it will take for the gap to disappear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    21 min
  • Making data and connectivity your competitive advantage

    Making data and connectivity your competitive advantage
    Nov 13 2025
    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 largely about optimization, that's great, but this episode will help you see how much more you can do with the same data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    15 min
  • We were there. What we learned.

    We were there. What we learned.
    Oct 30 2025
    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 players admit about their use of AI when off-the-record and how none of the systems works well unless both the employers and the candidates massively improve the data they're feeding into the systems in the way of job ads and resumes / CVs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    16 min
  • AI platform that applies to roles on LinkedIn, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter

    AI platform that applies to roles on LinkedIn, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter
    Oct 16 2025
    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 openings, candidates would pay. As a result, the site targets candidates with more money than time. So far, postings come primarily from Indeed, LinkedIn, and ZipRecruiter. John tells cohosts Peter M. Zollman of the AIM Group and Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter job search site that they're not scraping postings but, instead, using a third-party who has authorization from the job boards to feed their job postings to Mashalot AI. Who that third-party might be is unknown to your cohosts at this time, but let us know in the comments below if you have any guesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    16 min
  • Conferences: Where partnerships and M&A take place

    Conferences: Where partnerships and M&A take place
    Oct 2 2025
    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 Feffer. Our cohosts also talk about some of their favorite conferences such as RecBuzz, Job Boards Connect, TAtech, RecFest USA, Unleash, SHRM National, SHRM Talent Management, ERE, LinkedIn, and Indeed. Agree? Disagree? Any we missed? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    17 min