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•October 6, 2025

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry

September 29-October 5, 2025:

• Coming to an employer near you soon: The agentic organization – the paradigm for the AI era;

• Verifying seekers’ ID at scale: Willo raises £3M investment to tackle surge in AI job applications;

• Learning all the wrong stuff: Gen Z is getting crushed in the ’low-hire, low-fire’ job market;

• Setting up the TApocalypse: The graduate ‘jobpocalypse’ signals the loss of entry level jobs;

• Hoping Santa gets jollier: Seasonal retail hiring to fall to lowest level since 2009, report says.

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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.

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The agentic organization: Contours of the next paradigm for the AI era

AI is bringing the largest organizational paradigm shift since the industrial and digital revolutions. This new paradigm unites humans and AI agents—both virtual and physical—to work side by side at scale at near-zero marginal cost. We call it the agentic organization. McKinsey’s experience working with early adopters indicates that AI agents can unlock significant value. Organizations are beginning to deploy virtual AI agents along a spectrum of increasing complexity: from simple tools that augment existing activities to end-to-end workflow automation to entire “AI-first” agentic systems. In parallel, physical AI agents are emerging. Companies are making strides in developing “bodies” for AI, such as smart devices, drones, self-driving vehicles, and early attempts at humanoid robots. These machines allow AI to interface with the physical world.

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Willo raises £3M investment to tackle surge in AI job applications

Global recruitment technology platform Willo has received a £3m investment from the founder of cybersecurity giant Mimecast. The Glasgow-based platform Willo is looking to accelerate the development of tools designed to help employers automatically verify candidate credentials amid a surge in AI-generated job applications.

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Jerome Powell says Gen Z without tech skills are getting crushed in the ’low-hire, low-fire’ job market—and colleges are failing them

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell issued a warning to young workers on Tuesday: if you don’t have technology skills, you’ll be left behind in today’s labor market. Speaking in Rhode Island this week at an event hosted by the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Powell described what he called an unusual “low-hire, low-fire” economy. Companies aren’t expanding payrolls, but they also aren’t cutting staff in large numbers. Instead, many are pausing new hires while they wait to see how tariffs, immigration policy, and other shifts play out.

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The graduate ‘jobpocalypse’: Where have all the entry-level jobs gone? | FT Working It

Entry-level jobs are disappearing. The promise of AI’s workplace abilities and economic uncertainties have caused many companies to take pause while graduate-level unemployment is at an all-time high. What will the future of work look like if there are fewer starter jobs and middle management positions? Professional development and leadership pipelines will need to be redefined but how are companies doing it?

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Seasonal retail hiring to fall to lowest level since 2009, signaling trouble for holidays, report says

Seasonal hiring in the retail industry is poised to fall to its lowest level since the 2009 recession, an early warning sign that the holiday shopping season could be softer than expected, job placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a Wednesday report. Challenger is projecting retailers may add under 500,000 positions in the final three months of 2025, marking the smallest seasonal gain in 16 years and an 8% decline from the year-ago period.

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