The Compliance Deadline Moved. The Lawsuits Didn’t.

Salary.com Enters the Platform Race

Salary.com launched SalaryTalent on September 28, its move from single-category compensation provider to full talent management platform. Five products ship at once: Recruiting, Candidate Sourcing, Performance Management, Workforce Management, and HR Agent...

Investors Are Cold on Talent Acquisition Right Now. BoomerangHR Just Raised $12.7M Anyway

I run the Investor Experience at HR Tech, which means most of my days right now are spent talking to angels, VCs, private equity, and corp dev about what they're looking for. There's a phrase I hear more than I'd like: "not really interested in talent acquisition...

Left of the Application. Harver Just Made Its Move, Acquires Symphony Talent.

Harver announced it's acquiring Symphony Talent. Backed by Rubicon Technology Partners, the deal pairs Harver's IO psychology, cognitive and personality science, and anti-fraud candidate assessment infrastructure with Symphony Talent's recruitment marketing, career...

Stadium Acquires Confetti

The deal pairs Stadium's swag, recognition, and gifting business with Confetti's live-hosted team experiences. Stadium, the company behind Snackmagic and Swagmagic, has acquired Confetti, a virtual and hybrid team experience platform. The deal brings Stadium's...

hackajob CEO Mark Chaffey on Archer, Pre-Apply Compliance, and $3M in ARR in Nine Months

Application volume at large enterprise employers is running three to four times higher than a couple of years ago, and the same AI tools driving that volume are erasing any signal recruiters could use to sort it. That's the noise Mark Chaffey, CEO and co-founder of...

The Campus Recruiting Platform You’re Depending On Is Looking for Something Else to Be

Handshake built the dominant campus recruiting network in the United States. Most major universities are on it. Most large enterprise employers have subscriptions. For the better part of a decade, if you wanted early career talent at scale, Handshake was the default...

Early Career Is Being Reinvented. The Incumbents Are Not Ready.

The early career market is in its pre-ACA-like moment. The regulatory deadline is real. The platform gap is wide open. The incumbents aren't building toward it. That combination doesn't last long. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) set a mandatory compliance deadline that...

Analytics Is a Closing Window. Paradigm Might Have Found You the Way Through It.

A 12-year-old people analytics consultancy tore up the software it spent five years building, rebuilt it AI-native in six months, and landed on a thesis that should worry every legacy analytics vendor and reassure every services firm sitting on unmonetized expertise:...

Greenhouse CPO Meredith Johnson on the Ezra Acquisition, MCP, and Talent Tech’s Shift From Records to Orchestration

Greenhouse pushed its Model Context Protocol (MCP) out to the broader market last week, and the launch post on LinkedIn read less like a feature announcement than a status report on what customers had already done with it. Formation Bio prompted the MCP to build a...

EU Declares AI Used In Employment and Hiring a “High Risk” Category and Identifies Specific Regulatory Requirements

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In March 2024, the EU passed the EU AI Act. It's the first comprehensive AI regulation, and as the EU has done in the past with issues like data privacy, it has again set the current high watermark for another technology-related regulation. The EU AI Act establishes a...

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Bullhorn’s Acquisition of Textkernel with CEOs Art Papas and Gerard Mulder

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In this exclusive interview, WorkTech Founder George LaRocque dives deep into Bullhorn's recent acquisition of Texkernel, a move making waves in the recruitment industry. Join us as Art Papas, CEO of Bullhorn, and Gerard Mulder, CEO of Texkernel, share their insights...

EXCLUSIVE: Ashby CEO Benji Encz Discusses $30 Million Series C

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George LaRocque sat down with Benji Encz, CEO and co-founder of Ashby, to discuss their $30 million Series C funding round. This is a must-watch for anyone interested in the latest trends and innovations in recruiting tech. What to Expect: Meet Ashby and Benji Encz:...

The Severance Problem: iCIMS and the Identity Crisis Every Legacy ATS Is About to Face

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Spoiler alert. You decide whether the spoilers are for Severance or iCIMS. I spent a day at iCIMS headquarters in Holmdel, New Jersey, last week for their AI Executive Summit and Analyst Day. If you've watched the Apple TV series Severance, you already know that...