Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry
November 4-10, 2024:
• Flouting international law: Brand of the Ukrainian Job Board Jooble used illegally in Russia & Belarus;
• Urging caution in product development: AI safety advocates tell founders to slow down;
• Making data more accessible: Public Insight releases Talent Market Intelligence widgets/reports;
• Surprising it’s not: AI tools are biased in ranking job applicants’ resumes, study shows;
• Futureproofing recruiters: Talent Technology Strategist Certification Program protects TA pros.
PLUS
• The TAtech Leadership Summit on Recruitment Marketing, February 26-27, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. For senior execs at enterprise employers and TA solution providers.
• TAtech North America & The World Job Board Forum, June 3-5, 2025 in Oceanside just north of San Diego, California. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!
The Brand of Ukranian Job Board Jooble Is Being Used Illegally in Russia and Belarus
The international job aggregator Jooble reports cases of illegal use of its brand in Russia and Belarus, despite ceasing operations in these markets more than two years ago. Jooble has discovered that job listings using its brand identity are being posted on the jooble[dot]ru domain. Additionally, news is being published under the Jooble name on the website jooble[dot]by. The company currently has no control over the jooble[dot]ru or jooble[dot]by domains. Any content published on these websites is unrelated to Jooble’s activities, and the Jooble brand is being used without permission. Jooble’s legal team has begun measures to protect the company’s rights and reputation and to put an end to the unauthorised activity of these counterfeit brand sites in Russia and Belarus. As a reminder, Jooble ceased all commercial activity in these countries after 24 February 2022. From then until April 2022, the company used local sites to inform people in Russia and Belarus regarding war crimes committed by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, encouraging Russians and Belarusians to act against their own authoritarian regimes to help end the war. As a result, Jooble’s website was blocked by Roskomnadzor pursuant to a directive from the Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office.
AI safety advocates tell founders to slow down
“Move cautiously and red-team things” is sadly not as catchy as “move fast and break things.” But three AI safety advocates made it clear to startup founders that going too fast can lead to ethical issues in the long run. “We are at an inflection point where there are tons of resources being moved into this space,” said Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. “I’m really worried that right now there’s just such a rush to sort of push product out onto the world, without thinking about that legacy question of what is the world that we really want to live in, and in what ways is the technology that’s being produced acting in service of that world or actively harming it.” The conversation comes at a moment when the issue of AI safety feels more pressing than ever. In October, the family of a child who died by suicide sued chatbot company Character.AI for its alleged role in the child’s death. “This story really demonstrates the profound stakes of the very rapid rollout that we’ve seen of AI-based technologies,” Myers West said. “Some of these are longstanding, almost intractable problems of content moderation of online abuse.
Public Insight Releases Talent Market Intelligence Widgets and Reports
Public Insight announces the release of two new applications that are part of its TalentView solution – Widgets and Reports for easy and instant access to detailed talent market intelligence. Through interactive, online widgets and report PDFs, customers have the flexibility to generate targeted insights from over 150 market metrics captured in TalentView. These metrics can be filtered and analyzed by job title, state, metro area or zip code, employer and industry to better inform recruitment decisions, understand the landscape, identify trends and uncover new business opportunities. Key metrics include postings, reposting rate, open days, fill days, compensation, supply/demand, active resumes, quick apply, urgent and sponsored rates, remote jobs, review ratings and employee sentiment. Metrics can be analyzed over time periods and benchmarked against competitors or the industry.
AI tools are biased in ranking job applicants’ resumes, study shows
Artificial intelligence tools — particularly large language models — appear to show significant racial, gender and intersectional biases when ranking job candidates’ resumes based on perceptions about their names, according to new research presented recently at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence/Association for Computing Machinery Conference on AI, Ethics and Society. Across 550 real-world resumes, the AI tools favored White-associated names 85% of the time and female-associated names only 11% of the time. The tools never favored Black male-associated names over White male-associated names, the researchers found.
TAtech & Talent Collective launch Talent Technology Strategist Certification Program
Knowledge of how to acquire, implement and use state-of-the-art talent technology is now a career differentiator for TA professionals. When the economy turns down and recruiting slows or ends altogether, recruiters are usually the first to be shown the door. How can you protect yourself? Acquire the skills and knowledge that can help your employer achieve the return it seeks (and deserves) on its investment in technology-based tools for recruitment. Until now, however, there’s been no convenient way to gain their expertise. The Talent Technology Strategist Certification Program, launched through a partnership between TAtech and Talent Collective, solves that problem.
One-of-a-Kind Conferences for TA Solutions Business Success
• The TAtech Leadership Summit on Recruitment Marketing, February 26-27, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. For senior execs at enterprise employers and TA solution providers.
• TAtech North America & The World Job Board Forum, June 3-5, 2025 in Oceanside just north of San Diego, California. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!