Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry

September 1-7, 2025, 2025:

• Enhancing its recruitment marketing: Recruitics’ acquires Change State to expand capabilities;

• Seeing a disproportionate impact: Economists Say AI harms the labor market for young people;

• Seeing the green fade in greener pastures: Why millions now regret resigning for a career shift;

• Dissing hither, thither & yon: Matt Charney opines on why your recruitment advertising sucks”;

• Questioning the job value of college: Tech CEOs urge young people to rethink college degrees.

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TAtech Europe: The Talent Technology Forum – A Different Kind of Recruiting Conference, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars. PLUS: The Monster Reunion in Europe with Jeff Taylor on November 12 and The NORAs Awards Gala on November 13 – celebrating the best in online recruitment.

TAtech North America 2026 – Get in on the Early Bird Discounts and register right now for the largest gathering in the world of talent tech CEOs, senior execs and rising stars. Network for competitive intelligence; meet in the Deal Center to explore partnerships and take a look at leading edge products that are entering the market. March 3-5, 2026 in Orlando, Florida. Mickey is waiting!

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Acquisition strengthens Recruitics’ market position and expands platform capabilities

Recruitics, LLC, a leading platform for AI-powered recruitment marketing and analytics, today announced it has acquired Change State, a recruitment marketing agency and HR technology consultancy. The acquisition strengthens the Recruitics platform with the addition of the innovative Voice by Change State candidate survey tool, broadens the company’s client base through the integration of Change State’s clients, and enhances its expertise with the addition of a team of industry experts.

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What to Know: Economists Say AI is Harming the Labor Market for Young People

Warning signs — Is AI stealing jobs from early-career workers? A new report from the Stanford Digital Economy Lab finds that in the professions most exposed to AI automation, including software engineering and customer service, employment for 22- to 25-year-olds has declined significantly. The numbers back up mounting anecdotal evidence of college graduates in certain fields struggling to find jobs—and serve as “canaries in the coal mine,” the report’s authors write, warning of the potentially destabilizing effects that AI could have on the labor market going forward.

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The Great Regret: Unpacking Why Millions Are Now Recalibrating Post-Great Resignation Career Shifts

The global workforce has experienced a period of unprecedented transformation, with the ‘Great Resignation’ of 2021-2022 marking a pivotal moment where millions of individuals re-evaluated their career priorities. Fuelled by a tight labor market and a desire for improved compensation, work-life balance, and overall well-being, many professionals embarked on new career paths. This mass exodus, encompassing an astounding 47 million Americans in 2021 and over 50 million in 2022, was initially perceived as a collective empowerment, with employees holding significant leverage in seeking greener pastures. Yet, as the dust settles, a new, more somber chapter is unfolding in this workforce narrative: the ‘Great Regret.’

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Why Your Recruitment Advertising Sucks.

Matt Charney opines: If you’re in talent acquisition, you’ve probably been told that your job ads need to be more “programmatic,” that “employer branding” is your silver bullet, and that dumping more budget into LinkedIn or programmatic job boards will magically solve your pipeline problems. Here’s the thing, though: it won’t. They’re lying to you. That’s because recruitment advertising is still stuck in 2004, using Google to drive unqualified traffic to Craigslist style landing pages and pretending that’s innovation.

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Tech CEOs Urge Young People to Rethink College Degrees Amid Industry Shifts

Executives at top tech companies are telling young people to rethink the purpose of education, and even whether they should attend college at all. Tech has had a range of successful college dropouts in its history, and the industry is being shaken up by the growing influence of artificial intelligence, leaving some new graduates struggling to land the high-paying jobs that were once plentiful.

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One-of-a-Kind Conferences for TA Solutions Business Success

TAtech Europe: The Talent Technology Forum – A Different Kind of Recruiting Conference, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars. PLUS: The Monster Reunion in Europe with Jeff Taylor on November 12 and The NORAs Awards Gala on November 13 – celebrating the best in online recruitment.

TAtech North America 2026 – Get in on the Early Bird Discounts and register right now for the largest gathering in the world of talent tech CEOs, senior execs and rising stars. Network for competitive intelligence; meet in the Deal Center to explore partnerships and take a look at leading edge products that are entering the market. March 3-5, 2026 in Orlando, Florida. Mickey is waiting!

Seating is limited at all events, so register today!

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