Human curated highlights from last week:
• Removing the bottleneck: Appcast expands its recruitment marketing with career site solution;
• Changing the rules without notice: EEOC votes to rescind its 1979 affirmative action guidelines;
• Betting big time on tech: AI drives North American startup funding to record high in 1H 2026;
• Returning to the daily grind: Unretirement is quietly becoming the new normal in the US;
• Creating novel-length job ads only bots will read: The longest job postings on record.
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Appcast, the global leader in recruitment media and technology, announced Appcast Career Sites, a performance-driven solution that transforms the career site into a measurable, high-impact engine for hiring. As candidate acquisition becomes more fragmented, costly, and shaped by AI-driven search behaviors, traditional career sites have become a bottleneck to hiring performance.
Appcast is a TAtech Network Member
For nearly five decades, employers weighing voluntary affirmative action under Title VII had an EEOC regulatory roadmap and a potential Section 713(b) reliance defense for actions taken in good faith with that roadmap. As of this week, that roadmap has been rescinded, and future reliance on it is no longer available.
Published by DirectEmployers Association, a TAtech Network Member.
North American venture investment hit all-time highs in the first half of 2026, driven by late-stage megarounds for AI industry leaders, Crunchbase data shows. Overall, investment in U.S. and Canadian startups totaled a staggering $392 billion for the first half of 2026, per Crunchbase data, dwarfing anything we’ve seen before.
According to new AARP research, 7 percent of retirees have returned to work in the past six months, a phenomenon known as unretirement. Even more telling, nearly half of those workers said they returned primarily because they needed help covering everyday expenses.
If you think that many job postings are starting to resemble those oft-derided, seemingly never-ending drugstore receipts, you aren’t imagining things. Hiring platform Greenhouse found that the average job-description character count increased 7.4% between 2022 to 2026. Over the same period, the number of sections in an average job listing grew by nearly 14%, with those dedicated to skills jumping by almost 16%. Another job platform, Indeed, found that the number of words in the average post grew 14.3% between 2021 and 2025.
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