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Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry January 1-7, 2024: • Chasing Google for funds & fame: AI powered search engine Perplexity AI raises $73.6M. • Raising our techno-kids responsibly: Cultural perspectives on robots: friends, servants or foes; • Combining tech and humans in TA: Sinecure.ai acquires exec search firm Grace Blue Partnership; • Paying […]

2024 Predictions by Alexander Chukovski. CEO Crypto-Careers.com Alexander Chukovski is a prolific commentator on LinkedIn and a regular columnist for TAtech. Each December, he pens a set of predictions for the coming year. As always, he pulls no punches. But whether you agree or disagree with him, he’s always thought provoking and insightful. Here’s a […]

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech It’s that time of the year again. Pundits and researchers, solution providers and publishers can’t help themselves. They feel compelled to pull out their crystal balls and tell the rest of us what we can expect in the days and months ahead. If your social media account and emailbox are […]

TAtech Top 100, Winter 2023

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry December 11-16, 2023: • Leveling the playing field for SMBs: iHIre expands outsourced recruitment services & solutions; • Making it a two-horse race: OpenAI competitor Mistral AI nabs $487M, hitting $2B valuation; • Aging well gracefully – Not: EEOC inks $90K age discrimination settlement with medical sales co; […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry December 3-10, 2023: • Making the job ad business model click: Indeed steps away from pay-per-applicant pricing; • Doing HR from afar ain’t easy: HRCI survey finds remote recruiting, onboarding a challenge; • Checking to see if something’s fishy: UK examines OpenAI’s governance links with Microsoft; • Wondering […]

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech A stellar group of speakers and panelists at TAtech Europe & The EMEA job Board Forum last week provided what can only be described as “incomparable insights” for job board and talent technology company leaders. David Wilson, the CEO of Fosway Group, kicked things off with our Opening Keynote and […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry November 27-December 3, 2023: • Sucking up the talent: Lightcast survey finds these nine companies hire the most gen AI workers; • No-poaching is reprieved: US DOJ abandons its first-ever criminal indictment of no-poach pacts; • Uncovering an unexpected bias: New survey finds men 2x more likely to […]

By Alexander Chukovski, CEO Crypto-Careers.com Do you want to differentiate yourself as a job board in the next 1-2 years? Here is what you can do. In the last month, I have had discussions with three job boards that lost clients because of an increase in unqualified applicants. These were European-based job boards; some charge […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry November 20-26, 2023: • Making it easier to automate: HrFlow.ai intros self-service access to searching & scoring APIs; • Introducing the Silicon Valley soap opera: Salesforce CEO woos disgruntled OpenAI staff; • Using one prompt to find great talent: Talen AI intros AI-based platform for global recruiting; • […]

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech Every day, I see announcements on LinkedIn that this job board or that talent technology company has introduced a new product, developed a new capability or made some other kind of news. After that, it’s crickets. No press release and more often than not, no written communication of any kind. […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry November 13-19, 2023: • Acknowledging the AI definition: ‘Hallucinate’ is Cambridge dictionary’s new word of the year; • Making a distributed workforce: Remote creates marketplace to help company tap global talent; • Onboarding with songs: Anthym launches ‘Welcome’ to harmonize new hire company intros; • Heading for a […]

By Alexander Chukovski, CEO Crypto-Careers.com Is your job board not getting enough organic traffic? It could be due to using an in-house platform. Migrating to a specialized job board SaaS can significantly improve your organic traffic. Why? Let’s dig in. First, let me start by saying that this post is not applicable to select cases […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry November 6-12, 2023: • Gaming gamers’ eating habits: Doritos uses AI to create “Doritos Silent” soundless crunches; • Helping to prepare people for success: FutureFit AI launches beta of new career assistant; • Relaunching products: Rival intros its AI-powered recruiting suite branded with its new name; • Using […]

By Kate Hindes, Social Media Manager TAtech Big news this week on the important role HR professionals will play in an increasingly complex and technological workplace. Forget about asking for a seat at the table; now’s the time to take our seat at the head of the table. Here’s the proof for such an audacious […]

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech More than a few job boards and talent technology companies have now adopted a well-worn strategy for weathering today’s choppy economic times. They’re hunkering down and hanging on. And, that’s a mistake. I’ve observed the TA solutions industry during three economic downturns, and I can tell you with absolute certainty […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry October 30-November 5, 2023: • Making sense of the job market: ZipRecruiter launches research site to parse labor market data; • Confirming an unhappy workforce: iHire’s Talent Retention Report holds plenty of bad news; • Trying to shape the future: FairNow.ai analyzes the White House’s new AI Executive […]

By Alexander Chukovski, CEO Crypto-Careers.com In the past few years, the rise of programmatic job advertising has created a fantastic pool of potential new revenue for niche job board owners. Get a feed from A, R or J, import the relevant jobs for your audience and start getting paid on CPA/CPC. Sounds easy, right? Not […]

Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry October 23-29, 2023: • Angling for trouble: IBM study finds ChatGPT can phish almost as well as the bad guys; • Making a bold move: TA software provider Radancy acquires hiring event solution Brazen; • Removing barriers in hospitality hiring: Startup Slinger raises $600K to eliminate the CV; […]

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech Pay transparency can help an employer’s brand and its job postings roar like a tiger. Okay, I admit the analogy is a bit overdone, but in truth, the practice of being open and honest about compensation can give an employer a huge competitive advantage in today’s talent jungle. But, here’s […]

By Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech According to some, “Fake it ‘til you make it” is the underlying credo of many tech companies in Silicon Valley. Basically, it involves saying whatever you need to say while hoping it doesn’t catch up to you before you actually have something worthwhile to say. I have no idea if […]