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August 15, 2022

TA Tech Business NewZ

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech IndustryAugust 15-22, 2022:• Spinning up data protection for Saas apps: Spin Technology raises $16M for expanding market;• Onboarding candidate search & recruitment marketing capabilities: Silkroad acquires Entelo;• Making talent decisions smarter: Harver acquires pymetrics soft skills assessment solution;• Busting anti-queer bias in text prediction: USC develops fix to AI...
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What Caught My Eye: People Pick Friends Who Smell Like Them

A series of weekly outside-the-box news stories and their unexpected lessons for recruitingPeople May Pick Friends Who Smell Like Them – Scientific AmericanA recent report in the publication Science Advances described research in Israel that found there’s more to the idea of certain people having chemistry with one another than previously thought. We humans, it...
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The Soporific Job Posting

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtechA recent report found that depending on the job type, somewhere between 92 and 96 percent of all candidates who click on an ad fail to complete an application. Historically, much if not most of the blame for that miserable outcome has been directed at the employer’s application form. The rule...
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