June 9-15, 2025:
• Doubling down on AI: Ehave snaps up AI Headhunter for $10M, signaling commitment to AI;
• Rinsing & repeating in recruitment: In the AI era, tech talent strategies need a major reset;
• Shrinking the power of noncompetes: Payscale’s effort to enforce noncompete agreement fails;
• Painting a bleak picture: Onrec opines “the only way is up – UK labour market hits rock bottom”;
• Producing real garbage you can’t avoid: Shelly Palmer says The Age of AI SlopComs has arrived.
• 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. PLUS: The NORAs Awards Gala on November 13 – celebrating the best in online recruitment.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!
Ehave, Inc., (OTC Pink: EHVVF) announced the acquisition of AIHeadHunter, an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform, through an asset purchase agreement. The transaction marks a significant step in Ehave’s strategic shift toward becoming a developer and operator of applied AI solutions.
The latest study from General Assembly, the education organization I lead, reveals the precarious state of AI talent. Hiring leaders say it’s challenging and expensive to source candidates with the right AI skills, even as they’re receiving more requests to add AI skills to job descriptions that have little or nothing to do with AI. Three-quarters of HR professionals say their company is hiring AI talent without taking the time to build pipelines of qualified and high-potential candidates. Just as companies are using a “full steam ahead” approach to develop AI applications and software, hiring leaders are having to adopt a similar strategy just to keep up.
A judge of the Delaware Court of Chancery dismissed on Monday compensation vendor Payscale’s attempt to enforce a noncompete agreement against its former director of sales because the agreement was overbroad. The court held the agreement was unenforceable because it was overbroad in both geographic and temporal scope, prohibiting nationwide work in “almost any role for any company engaged in business that [Payscale’s parent company] or its subsidiaries were conducting, or had even proposed conduct, as of [the plaintiff’s] departure.” It also held that the agreement was broader than necessary to protect Payscale’s business interests.
Employment confidence has plummeted across all sectors in the UK, with the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey showing a sharp decline in hiring intentions for the third business quarter of 2025. The Net Employment Outlook, calculated by surveying 2,000+ UK businesses about their recruitment plans for the months ahead, is +19% for Q3, a positive albeit significantly reduced Outlook (-12%) from the previous quarter as market volatility dampens confidence.
If you watched the NBA Finals on Wednesday night, you may have seen a surreal 30 seconds of AI-generated madness: an old man in a cowboy hat carrying a chihuahua, a swimmer in a pool of eggs, and an alien shotgunning a beer. It wasn’t a fever dream, it was a real ad from betting platform Kalshi. Cost: $2,000. Production team: one person. Tools: Google Veo 3, Gemini, CapCut. Welcome to the era of “AI SlopComs” (aka: Generative AI Video Communications).
• 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. PLUS: The NORAs Awards Gala on November 13 – celebrating the best in online recruitment.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!
