5 Post-Monster-Buyout Predictions for the Future of the Recruitment Industry

The announcement that Randstad had bought Monster was just the latest in an accelerating trend of M&A in the recruitment industry between technology companies and traditional staffing/recruitment services companies. This announcement comes on the heels of LinkedIn’s acquisition by Microsoft, and Indeed/Recruit Holdings buying SimplyHired in a fire sale. These announcements are just the beginning of the inevitable convergence of job boards, online recruiting technologies, and traditional recruiting and staffing services (as I started writing this piece I saw that Vettery announced it raised an impressive $9MM Series A Round).