• Debunking conventional wisdom: Jobs that earn six figures without going to college are rare;
• Critiquing EU’s bureaucrats: America’s accidental AI regulations are beating Europe’s master plan;
• Finding a trust gap between employers & job seekers: iHire’s State of Online Recruiting 2026;
• Feeling the pinch from a changing market: B2B SaaS company Aimwel shutters its doors;
• Leveraging years of data collection: ZoomInfo launches Talent Autopilot for Recruiting.
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As college costs and student debt have Americans doubting the value of higher education, there’s growing interest in high-paying jobs that don’t require a degree — and in public policy supporting training for them. But six-figure jobs that skip a bachelor’s degree do require more than a high school diploma and remain rare, according to an analysis released Monday by Niche, a higher education platform.
Europe is widely seen as the leader on AI regulation. The EU has spent years building a comprehensive master plan in the form of the EU AI Act, while the US is often described as having no real AI guardrails at all. Yet in practice the opposite is true. US states are regulating AI faster than almost any legislative response to a new technology in history, and are taking an approach that may prove to be more effective than the EU’s.
iHire has released its 2026 State of Online Recruiting Report, highlighting a growing trust gap in hiring as employers struggle with fraudulent applicants, and job seekers encounter fake, scam, and “ghost” jobs. The eighth annual research report, based on a survey of 1,054 job seekers and 318 employers from 57 industries across the United States, also explores AI adoption, job board usage, candidate expectations, employer branding, skills-based hiring, and other trends shaping talent acquisition.
After four years, we’re saying goodbye to Aimwel. Since 2022, we’ve helped job boards grow by connecting them to millions of candidates across aggregators, social and search — growing this business YoY with high double-digit figures for four consecutive years. As DPG Media sharpens its focus on its core markets, the decision has been made not to invest further in Aimwel’s growth, but to close it instead.
ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the Go To Market Intelligence Platform, today announced Talent Autopilot, its most advanced technology for recruiting, designed to help talent acquisition teams discover and engage qualified candidates that traditional search can miss. Talent Autopilot brings together ZoomInfo’s professional and company intelligence with autonomous reasoning and action.
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