January 27-February 2, 2025:
• Changing Fed contracting rules: OFCCP ordered to stop all enforcement activity and close audits;
• Moving into the EMEA market: Appcast intros recruitment marketing platform to UK Employers;
• Opening up the public sector market: Holly secures $2.2M to solve Government’s hiring crisis;
• Deep sixing the rest of the pack: What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?;
• Rising FOFM-Fear of Falling Behind: Americans are struggling to find jobs as market changes.
• 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!
In response to President Trump revoking Executive Order 11246, Acting U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Vincent Micone issued an Order on January 24th, instructing DOL employees including OFCCP to stop all enforcement activity under the rescinded Executive Order 11246.
Appcast, the leading recruitment marketing platform powered by programmatic, today announced the launch of AppcastOne, a solution that transforms candidate engagement and acquisition. AppcastOne fuses recruitment marketing strategy and channels into a single, holistic platform that is powered and optimised by technology and data.
Holly, an AI-powered platform modernizing government hiring, announced today the close of its $2.2 million oversubscribed pre-seed round, led by J2 Ventures with participation from Roble Ventures, Gaingels, and prominent angel investors. The funding will support Holly’s platform as it works to solve the million-job government workforce vacancy crisis.
Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch of its latest AI models, which it says are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order. The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips.
The job market is becoming more precarious for job seekers, as more than a third say they’re applying to more jobs than ever but hearing back less, according to new research from LinkedIn. One in five job seekers who were searching for a job last year are still looking in 2025, and 26 percent said the job market was so challenging they don’t plan to job hunt at all this year.
• 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!