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•August 19, 2025

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry

August 11-17, 2025:

• Adding more money to the wallet: ResumeWallet raises $1.5 million in angel investment round;

• Rising above exams: Lee Biggins enjoys a £60m payday with barely a GCSE to his name;

• Finding bad news in the good: An AI-driven ‘jobless recovery’ could hit knowledge workers hard;

• Creating one unified solution: Visage & Rolebot merge into an intelligent AI Recruiting Platform;

• XFiguring out who’s real grows critical: Gartner says 1 in 4 candidate profiles will be fake by 2028.

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ResumeWallet raises $1.5 million in angel investment round

London-based ResumeWallet (Part of C Squared Ventures Ltd), who provide jobseekers with a free suite of tools specifically designed to make job hunting easier and more efficient; and employers with pre-screened, qualified applicants on a cost per application basis, delivered at scale, through their existing talent acquisition infrastructure, has raised $1.5 million in an angel investment round. The round, which was significantly oversubscribed, brings total funding to date to $3.75million and will support the business as it continues to scale.

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I barely have a GCSE to my name — now I’m enjoying a £60m payday

CV-Library’s Lee Biggins, a former carpet fitter, says schools don’t teach the mindset that’s got him climbing The Sunday Times Tax List. It is a story that may help calm the nerves of the 700,000 anxious teenagers and their jittery parents in the run-up to GCSE results day later this month. The entrepreneur Lee Biggins, who left school with only a hotchpotch of Es, Fs and Gs after his exams, has enjoyed a £60 million payday from his online recruitment business.

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An AI-driven ‘jobless recovery’ could hit this group of workers particularly hard.

AI is raising the risk of a “jobless recovery” in the labor market, according to JPMorgan. AI is displacing white-collar knowledge workers, who account for 45% of US employment. The result could be a “dismal” job market downturn in the economy, JPMorgan said

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Visage and Rolebot Merge to Deliver the Market’s Most Scalable and Intelligent AI Recruiting Platform

Visage, a trusted recruitment automation partner for global enterprises like Siemens and Ford, has merged with Rolebot, a leader in fast, self-serve AI candidate sourcing used by companies like USC, Snowflake, and Cornerstone OnDemand. Together, the two platforms form a single, next-generation recruiting engine designed to meet the needs of hiring teams of all sizes—from high-growth startups to the Fortune 100.

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By 2028, 1 in 4 candidate profiles will be fake, Gartner predicts

The issue of candidate fraud may only be growing worse. Within three years — by 2028 — 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide could be fake, according to a July 31 report from Gartner. In a survey of 3,000 job candidates, 6% said they participated in interview fraud, either by posing as someone else or having someone else pretend as them. Burgeoning artificial intelligence use during the hiring process will likely increase concerns among recruiters, Gartner found.

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