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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...
Fighting AI With AI: Inside Cadient’s Modular Bet on the Future of Recruiting Tech
There’s a new arms race running through every applicant tracking system in the market, and neither side is winning. Candidates are feeding job descriptions into Claude or ChatGPT and asking for a resume “tailored to this role” before they hit apply. Recruiters are...
The Job Click Economy Is Closing. The Outcomes Economy Is Here.
The measurement changed. The platforms too tied to click revenue to shift are the ones with the most to lose. The job advertising market was built on a model borrowed from digital marketing: aggregate audience, sell visibility within it, charge per click. It worked...
The Job Board isn’t Dead. The Business Model is.
As the traditional job board model dies, the ecosystem built on job traffic and arbitrage is under pressure to change. For years, job board marketplaces topped every capital flow ranking in the WorkTech dataset. Then the market shifted. Now it is moving fast. Where...
The Platform Gravity Belt: Core HR, HRIS, Payroll, Benefits, and Financial Wellness Read Together
There is a category cluster in HR and Work Tech that never followed the script. While funding peaked in 2021 and contracted sharply across most of the market, this cluster kept building. While point solutions were being absorbed and windows were closing, capital kept...
Phenom Acquires Plum. The Science Is Serious. Here’s What to Watch.
Phenom just made its second acquisition in the behavioral science and assessments space in roughly ten weeks. BeApplied came first in February. Plum followed a few weeks later. Back-to-back moves in a category that has been a persistent gap in most enterprise talent...
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