In the talent acquisition world, the phrase ‘there’s plenty of fish in the sea’ can sometimes feel like a cruel joke. Recruiting is a lot like fishing, and if you’ve been casting your net in the same waters without much success, it might be time to consider broadening your applicant pool. But how do you […]

By Peter Weddle, Founder & CEO TAtech Several thought leaders in the TA space have recently called out what they see as a lack of imagination in the development of talent technology. In their view, today’s products are basically improvements at the margin – riffs on current capabilities – not true advancements in the state-of-the-art. […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry September 30-October 6, 2024: • Expanding opportunity: Jobs for Humanity & Womanity partner to launch site for Saudi women; • Reigning in crazy legislators: Shelly Palmer opines on CA Governor Newsom’s AI regulation veto; • Telling the court it got it wrong: Jobindex and Danske Medier appeal Google […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry September 23-29, 2024: • Creating a behemoth or a very big bubble: OpenAI closes in on largest VC round of all time; • Blocking LLM developers’ big steal: Cloudflare announces AI bot blocking with one click; • Launching an AI-first solution: SmartRecruiters announces V3.0 and Winston, an ‘AI […]

By Peter Weddle, Founder & CEO TAtech We talk a lot about end-to-end solutions in talent technology. Those are the products that help recruiters with every task from identifying and connecting with talent to enticing them to apply, assessing their position and culture fit, and ultimately selling them on an offer and onboarding them. Said […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry September 16-22, 2024: • Resetting the market: Stepstone CEO Dettmers on Axel Springer/KKR/CPP Investments; • Stiffing the scammers: LinkedIn’s new search filter protects against suspicious job postings; • Expanding its solution: Kula debuts complete hiring platform with purpose-built AI for recruiting; • Predicting tough times: ‘Largest labor shortage […]

HR professionals have long been celebrated in recognition programs focused on their field of work. TA and talent technology professionals, in contrast, have been all but ignored. Well, those days are over. TAtech Honors shines a spotlight on the men and women who are making a significant and long-lasting contribution to the field of talent […]

With a spot on the Forbes list of the World’s Best Employers and multiple gongs for the Best Global Culture, Best Company for Diversity, and Best Company Happiness, Ford’s talent and people teams have a reason to be proud of what they do. So says Melissa Thompson, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Ford Motor […]

By Peter Weddle, Founder & CEO TAtech The numbers are straight-forward and telling. A Manpower Group survey found that “4 in 5 employers globally report difficulty finding the skilled talent they need.” That was in 2023. The situation has only gotten worse since then. It’s a reality that threatens both the operations and the financial […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry May 9-15, 2024: • Applying for a job while grabbing a toothbrush: Manpower opens job hubs in Walmart stores; • Cutting headcount or reallocating talent: Challenger survey finds employers shedding more jobs; • Changing the rules of the game: The Impact of Google’s latest core update on online […]

These past few years have seen a huge shake up in most professional jobs, and the recent career upheaval has led to noticeable changes in job seeking behavior. When we surveyed nearly 2,000 professionals in the US and UK currently looking to change jobs, we see a complicated but important landscape. Jobseekers have higher expectations […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry September 2-8, 2024: • Trading equity for airtime: Gig platform Airtasker USA raises $9.75 million in media capital; • Finding a pearl: As remote working keeps rolling, Oyster raises $59M Series D at $1.2B valuation; • Looking for “AI teammates”: Mayfield devotes $100M to AI entrepreneur-in-residence program; • […]

By Peter Weddle, Founder & CEO TAtech That thud you just heard wasn’t the economy’s much anticipated soft landing, but instead it was the job market hitting a depressing low. According to the latest JOLTS report, the U.S. saw just 7.67 million job openings in July, which was almost 6 percent lower than what the […]

We all know that person in the office whose desk is immaculate: always tidy, perfectly organised, not a pen out of place or an empty crisp packet in sight. And then you have the colleague at the opposite end of the spectrum… their chosen aesthetic is piles of loose papers, empty wrappers strewn about, and […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry August 26-May 1, 2024: • Cutting the work in campaigns: Jobilla raises $6.7M to fuel AI-driven recruitment platform; • Adding to the DEI portfolio: DirectEmployers acquires Equality Magazine and its’s job boards. • Pulling back the curtain: Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick; • Feeling […]

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech They have very different business models and images in the marketplace. And, they mostly play very different roles in the support they provide to recruiters. So, why should AI-based talent solutions connect and work with job boards? The answer to that question isn’t inconsequential. In fact, it may well determine […]

TAtech Europe: Paris preview, with Stephen Bauer, COO with HrFlow.ai

Want to find top-caliber candidates for your team in 2024? Never mind the job postings, because a lot of the best talent isn’t looking for a new job. Attracting these candidates requires more than just posting job openings and waiting for the applications to roll in. Passive candidates, or those not actively seeking a new […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry August 19-25, 2024: • Waiting for Godot: Survey finds startups take longer to close rounds as funding cliff looms; • Creating even more confusion: FTC noncompete ban suffers another blow with judge’s ruling; • Making training easier: Recogni unveils new AI method to slash costs and power requirements; […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry August 12-18, 2024: • Giving birth to a star: TVNewsCheck’s MediaJobCenter.com takes aim at industry hiring crisis; • Getting past the buzz: McKinsey urges employers to move genAI from testing to transformation; • Robbing the labor market: How “talent heists” are redefining the tech M&A landscape; • Brutalizing […]

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech The last year or so has seen been considerable positive commentary about using generative AI to write job postings. In some respects, this enthusiasm is due to the simple fact that the quality of online ads has no place to go but up. In fact, according to TLNT, fewer than […]