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Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology Podcast

Chris Russell

Hosted by Chris Russell, online recruiting's mad scientist, the RecTech podcast covers all aspects of recruiting technology and recruitment marketing including interesting new tools & vendors. You'll also hear how recruiters leverage technology to find talent. A great listen for HR tech vendors, HR professionals and recruiters everywhere. CONTACT: chris@rectechmedia.com

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  • Yesterday · 7 min

    Indeed Removes 100k Fake Employers

    This week in RecTech covers Indeeds new moves, new features from Fama and Match2, and Firstwork lands $15M Series A. Sponsored by Dalia.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Tuesday · 26 min

    Indentity Verification Enters the Recruiting Process

    Are we about to see Scan your ID to apply become standard practice in hiring? 🪪👀 Right now, talent acquisition is dealing with an unprecedented storm. Mass-application bots, automated resume-tailoring tools, and generative AI have made it possible for a single person to blast out 500 hyper-customized applications before lunch ☕⚡. But the real crisis isnt just volume—it’s authenticity.More hiring teams are reporting: 🚩 Resumes fabricated out of thin air with fake credentials 🚩 Proxy test-takers and AI copilots running assessments 🚩 Ghost candidates and deepfake/camera-swapping during remote video screens 🚩 Stolen identities infiltrating remote roles. Historically, identity checks and background screenings sat at the very end of the funnel: you extend an offer, run the check, and onboard. Today? Waiting until the offer stage means recruiters and hiring managers spend dozens of wasted hours screening people who might not even exist. That leads to a massive question:Is upfront identity verification going to become the new gatekeeper?Imagine having to verify your government ID or complete a biometric liveness check before you can submit an application or book a first-round screen. In todays episode you'll hear from Findem who just debuted their new Authenticity Suite which helps recruiters to flag fraudulent applicants as well as proof that they're a human…enjoy the audio. And if you want to watch this instead, head to the RecTech media youtube channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 15 · 7 min

    Workday Finally Fixes its Recruiting Problem

    BOSTON — Global employment platform G-P (Globalization Partners) announced strong third-quarter momentum on Thursday, projecting that it will surpass $450 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and achieve more than $100 million in core operating profits for the full year 2026. The Boston-headquartered company credited its accelerating performance to rapid customer adoption of its agentic AI-driven workforce platform and its international compliance infrastructure, which now spans more than 180 countries. If projections hold, G-P will expand both customer headcount and revenue by over 20% compared to fiscal year 2025. Founded in 2012, G-P operates as an Employer of Record (EOR), handling international hiring, payroll, taxes, and localized human resources management so companies can hire cross-border staff without establishing legal entities overseas. https://hrtechfeed.com/g-p-forecasts-record-2026-on-surging-demand-for-agentic-ai-and-global-employment-services/ BELLEVUE, Wash. — October 14, 2026 — Humanly, an AI hiring platform for high volume hiring, announced the acquisition of CareerArc, a recruitment marketing technology company that helps employers reach, engage, and convert job seekers. The acquisition expands Humanly’s ability to connect the journey from candidate reach to hire, bringing together CareerArc’s top-of-funnel recruitment marketing capabilities with Humanly’s AI-powered candidate engagement, screening, interviewing, and hiring technology. “High volume employers have had to piece together their hiring process with a collection of disconnected tools such as job boards to find candidates, software to process applications, and agencies to fill the gaps,” said Prem Kumar, CEO and Co-Founder of Humanly. “CareerArc allows us to reach candidates earlier. By combining their expertise in reaching and engaging talent with Humanly’s AI-powered hiring platform, we can help employers build a stronger candidate pipeline and move more qualified people from first touch to first shift.” CareerArc’s portfolio includes HireSocial, a social recruiting platform built for talent acquisition teams, and Job Maps, an interactive career-site experience that helps candidates discover opportunities by location. https://hrtechfeed.com/humanly-acquires-careerarc/ NEW YORK — Rippling has officially opened a 132,000-square-foot office at 330 West 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan, marking one of the largest physical real estate commitments by an HR technology vendor in New York in recent years.Designed to accommodate over 1,000 employees, the Penn District hub is backed by $3.4 million in state performance-based tax credits via Empire State Development, tied to creating at least 371 new tech and go-to-market roles. Historically popular among early-stage startups and high-growth mid-market firms, Rippling has spent the past two years repositioning itself from a nimble SMB all-in-one platform into a serious contender for large enterprise contracts. To challenge enterprise stalwarts like Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, and ADP, HR tech platforms require deep access to Fortune 500 decision-makers, financial institutions, and multinational talent pools—networks heavily concentrated on the East Coast. https://hrtechfeed.com/rippling-expands-new-york-city-presence/ On October 6, SAP announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire TechWolf, a provider of a leading AI work intelligence platform. What does this mean for SAP SuccessFactors customers? Closing is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, so we cannot yet provide a lot of details, but let us look into what we can say today. TechWolf provides companies with a real-time, AI-powered model of their entire workforce, mapping employees’ skills, capabilities and tasks against company strategy to identify where to hire, retrain, or deploy their people. https://hrtechfeed.com/what-does-the-techwolf-acquisition-mean-for-successfactors-customers/ Announced at the annual Workday Rising conference by Adam Godson, the company introduced Workday Candidate Profile, a reusable, candidate-controlled digital profile designed to streamline applications across Workday-powered career sites. Instead of forcing candidates to start from scratch at every company career page, the new Workday Candidate Profile functions as a universal, portable identity: Passwordless One-Time Sign-In: When starting an application, candidates can select “Continue with Workday Candidate Profile” and log in using an email-verified one-time password (OTP), eliminating forgotten passwords. Up to 80% Pre-Filled: The system automatically pulls from the candidate’s saved profile to pre-fill up to 80% of standard application fields, including work history, education, skills, and contact information. Candidate Review & Control: Applicants can review, edit, and fine-tune their details before submitting, ensuring their information remains accurate and up-to-date. Preserving Employer Workflows: Employers maintain their custom branding, job-specific screening questions, compliance disclosures, and validation rules without breaking their existing Workday Recruiting workflows. The update is scheduled to roll out to job seekers in early 2027. https://recruitingheadlines.com/workday-overhauls-job-application-process-with-reusable-candidate-profiles/ SAN FRANCISCO — In welcome news for millions of frustrated job seekers, enterprise software giant Workday announced a major overhaul to its job application experience, addressing one of the most widely mocked pain points of the modern corporate job hunt: having to create a new account and manually retype work history for every single company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 8 · 5 min

    Metaview Lands $60 Million Series C

    "In recruiting news: LinkedIn is restricting popular third-party sourcing tools like Pin, Gem, and Neuroscale, cutting off unapproved external access to its network. The core issue comes down to user consent and data scraping policies. By enforcing stricter controls over candidate profiles, LinkedIn is aggressively protecting its platform ecosystem. For talent acquisition teams, the takeaway is clear: unauthorized sourcing plugins are out, and relying on official, compliant integrations is the only safe bet." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pin-gem-neuroscale-gone-from-linkedin-consent-question-brano-vargic-lrovc/ AUSTIN, Texas — In a major push to overhaul the modern hiring process, workplace insights platform Glassdoor announced the launch of Glassdoor Recruiter, an artificial intelligence-powered matching tool designed to replace endless job board scrolling with tailored, culture-first career recommendations. Part of Indeed and subsidiary to HR technology giant Recruit Holdings, Glassdoor aims to address widespread “application fatigue”—a growing issue where candidates submit dozens of resumes into online job boards only to face radio silence. Instead of traditional keyword searching and bulk applications, Glassdoor Recruiter pairs candidates’ resumes and career priorities directly with listings from Indeed’s global job marketplace, filtered through Glassdoor’s extensive database of employee reviews and workplace data. https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-launches-ai-driven-glassdoor-recruiter-to-end-job-search-burnout-and-mass-applications/ SAN FRANCISCO—-Juicebox, the AI recruiting platform, today announced a strategic agreement to acquire intellectual property and other assets from Fetcher, a talent sourcing and recruiting automation platform. As part of the agreement, Fetcher customers will have the option to transition to Juicebox as Fetcher winds down its existing product and operations. “Juicebox has been on our radar for years, and I believe they have the most compelling product on the market right now. We’re committed to working closely with them so our customers feel supported every step of the way,” said Christopher Calmeyn, Co-founder and CEO of Fetcher. Since its founding in 2016, Fetcher has served more than 1,500 customers and over 5,000 recruiters worldwide, and has raised over $30M in capital. Its product combined recruiting expertise with automation to help companies identify and engage qualified candidates. The company’s human-in-the-loop approach paired technology with personalized support, helping recruiters spend less time on manual sourcing and more time building relationships with talent. https://hrtechfeed.com/sap-to-acquire-techwolf/ Arriving just a year after its Series B, the round brings Metaview’s total capital raised to $110 million and marks a milestone in the HR technology sector’s migration from passive AI copilots to autonomous, task-oriented software agents. Metaview plans to direct the fresh capital toward three core initiatives: Agent General Availability: Rolling out fillmore alongside role-specific micro-agents across enterprise environments. Team & Geographic Footprint: Tripling headcount from 80 to 250 employees and opening a New York City office alongside its San Francisco and London hubs. Upskilling Talent Teams: Expanding 10x Recruiting, an educational and community framework designed to train recruiters in talent engineering—the practice of designing, tuning, and overseeing agentic AI hiring systems rather than running repetitive sourcing manually. https://hrtechfeed.com/metaview-secures-60m-series-c-to-scale-agentic-recruiting-and-autonomous-coworker-fillmore/ SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON — Metaview, an AI-native talent acquisition platform, announced a $60 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural, and Garuda Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 5 · 28 min

    Recfest Soundbites

    Today get updates from Dalia, SonicJobs, RecruitmentAds.com, Ribbon and Proven Base. Live from Recfest in Nashville, TN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • October 2 · 7 min

    Salary.com Wants to be a "Playa"

    Dallas, Texas - PitchMe, the data enrichment and talent intelligence platform for recruitment and staffing agencies, today launched SONAR, a new search product designed to eliminate one of agency recruiting’s most stubborn workarounds: searching an ATS or CRM for known candidates, then opening a separate sourcing tool to find everyone else. Live now in early access across the UK, US and Europe, SONAR searches public data sources across the web and returns enriched candidate profiles recruiters can review and contact from one place. The product works alongside systems such as Bullhorn, Avionte and Vincere, giving agencies a modern sourcing layer without requiring an ATS migration or disrupting the system of record their teams already use. The launch is the first step in PitchMe’s plan to bring an agency’s internal database and the external talent market into one search experience. A second module in development will synchronize candidates from an agency’s ATS or CRM into PitchMe, display internal and external candidates side by side, and automatically route qualified candidates back into the ATS as they advance through a hiring pipeline. SONAR organizes each hiring effort as a Project, which can be private or shared with a team. Inside a Project, recruiters create Searches in one of two ways: describe the candidate they need in plain language and let SONAR build the query, or use more than a dozen structured filters covering job title, geography, experience, education, skills, employers, credentials, and languages. Link LONDON — Global learning and testing giant Pearson announced on Tuesday an agreement to acquire Workera, a Silicon Valley-based startup specializing in artificial intelligence-powered skills verification and enterprise assessments. The transaction marks Pearson’s latest strategic push into corporate upskilling, aiming to address mounting corporate anxiety over workforce readiness in the age of generative and agentic AI. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2019 in Palo Alto, California, Workera operates an adaptive assessment platform that combines agentic AI, psychometrics, and role-specific simulations to benchmark what employees can actually do, rather than relying on self-reported résumés or static quizzes. The roughly 60-person startup serves high-profile enterprise and defense clients, including Accenture, ServiceNow, and the U.S. Space Force. Following the acquisition, Workera will fold into Pearson’s Enterprise Learning & Skills unit. Workera’s co-founder and chief executive, Kian Katanforoosh, will join Pearson’s leadership team. https://hrtechfeed.com/pearson-acquires-workera/ WALTHAM, Mass. — In a bid to upend conventional human resources workflows, compensation data veteran Salary.com announced the launch of SalaryTalent, an AI-native talent management platform designed to place real-time compensation intelligence at the center of everyday workforce decisions. Built on Salary.com’s foundational job ontology—which encompasses over 1.4 million leveled job titles across 30,000 organizations in 140+ countries—SalaryTalent is powered by the company’s Max AI engine. The suite debuts with five interconnected products designed to cover the entire talent lifecycle: Product Focus & Strategic Capabilities Recruiting Pre-configures job requisitions with compliant, pay-transparency salary ranges to streamline offer negotiations from day one. Candidate Sourcing Matches active and passive candidates by skills and experience while aligning market pay expectations early in the pipeline. Performance Management Connects employee reviews, goals, and career paths with live market pay and skill demand; leverages AI to flag rating and compensation anomalies. Workforce Management Unifies shift scheduling, attendance, leave management, and overtime compliance with an auditable time-to-payroll pipeline. HR Agent Orchestration Implements human-in-the-loop governance for AI agents, featuring permission scopes, configurable approval gates, and audit trails SalaryTalent is available immediately across desktop and mobile. To accelerate adoption, Salary.com has introduced the SalaryTalent Bootcamp, a 30-day, risk-free pilot program allowing enterprise clients to test the suite using their own job architecture, pay bands, and market conditions before committing. https://hrtechfeed.com/salary-com-expands-into-talent-management-with-launch-of-ai-native-salarytalent-platform/ SAN FRANCISCO — HiringCafe, an AI-powered job discovery search engine, announced Monday that it has raised $6.8 million in pre-seed funding and launched a new automated “AI Talent Agent” designed to search open roles on behalf of candidates. The round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from Nonfiction Capital, Silicon Gardens, and angel investors from hiring giants ZipRecruiter and Indeed. Unlike legacy job boards that operate primarily on sponsored-listing and advertising business models, HiringCafe positions itself as an exhaustive internet-wide search engine. Traditional aggregators typically surface about 20% of active job openings—mostly sponsored posts from large corporations—leaving millions of applicants to fight over the same visible positions. By deploying automated agents and web-indexing algorithms to crawl company career pages directly, HiringCafe claims its index exceeds 5.7 million open roles—up to 400% more than leading traditional job boards. https://hrtechfeed.com/hiringcafe-secures-6-8-million-to-tackle-the-hidden-job-market-with-ai-talent-agents/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 29 · 26 min

    RecFest LIVE: Mark Chaffey, CEO of Archer

    Hackajob is now known as Archer. We go behind the name change with their CEO and whats the future of AI in recruiting. Recorded live from Recfest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 28 · 26 min

    RecFest LIVE: Findem's VP of Marketing

    I chatted up Joseph Cole VP of Marketing for Findem about the launch of their new agentic studio for sourcing. Recorded live at Recfest in Nashville, TN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 24 · 8 min

    Harver Acquires Symphony Talent

    VANCOUVER, Wash. — ZoomInfo , a leading intelligence platform, has announced the launch of Talent Autopilot, its most advanced recruitment technology to date. Designed to help talent acquisition teams bypass the limitations of traditional keyword searches, the new platform combines professional and company intelligence with autonomous reasoning to unearth qualified candidates who might otherwise slip through the cracks. Rather than depending rigidly on specific job titles, standard keywords, and narrow filters, Talent Autopilot allows recruiters to supply contextual descriptions of a role. The system then evaluates candidates across broader criteria—including underlying skills, practical experience, career paths, and corporate backgrounds—to discover non-obvious fits whose talents match the position’s requirements. “Recruiting teams do not need another tool that simply gives them more candidates to sort through,” said Jon Bischke, General Manager of ZoomInfo Talent Solutions. “They need technology that understands what they are trying to accomplish and has the intelligence to act on it.” https://hrtechfeed.com/zoominfo-unveils-autonomous-recruiting-and-candidate-discovery-features/ BOSTON — RippleMatch, a leading early career recruiting platform, today announced that its university product is now available free of charge to all higher education institutions. The news follows RippleMatch’s acquisition by JobGet, the fastest-growing job platform connecting workers to employers at scale, and provides universities a valuable tool to support students through an entry-level hiring market that’s challenged by AI disruption. “Career services teams are being asked to do more for students at exactly the moment when the job market has become most unpredictable for them,” said Audrey Patenaude, General Manager of RippleMatch. “AI is reshaping the entry-level roles where graduates have traditionally gotten their start. The job search process has become more opaque, and universities are doing this with fewer resources than ever. With our acquisition by JobGet, we’ve gained access to a dramatically larger job inventory and employer network, and that growth allows us to expand access to universities at no cost, and we believe that’s what this moment calls for.” https://hrtechfeed.com/jobget-announces-free-access-to-ripplematch-platform-for-universities/ Phoenix Education Partners, the parent company of the University of Phoenix, has reached an agreement to acquire Fuel50, an AI-driven workforce intelligence and talent mobility platform, for approximately $31.5 million in cash with up to $8.5 million in performance-based earnouts through 2027. Fuel50’s platform uses enterprise data and an ontology spanning over 5,000 skills to help organizations map internal capabilities, forecast labor needs, and drive employee upskilling and reskilling. The transaction, expected to close within 30 days, reflects Phoenix Education’s broader push to bridge the gap between higher education and AI-era corporate talent development; following the deal, Fuel50 will operate as an independent subsidiary under its own brand, with co-founder and current president Jo Mills stepping into the role of CEO. https://hrtechfeed.com/univ-of-phoenix-buys-an-hr-tech-firm/ SAN FRANCISCO — Crosschq announced a major transformation and brand overhaul today, officially relaunching as Brilliant AI to establish what it terms the “hiring intelligence” category. Backed by a new strategic investment from Bessemer Venture Partners, Brilliant AI brings together three distinct HR tech entities: Crosschq, candidate verification platform ApplicantX, and behavioral assessment platform Traitify. Together, the newly unified company aims to solve recruiting’s long-standing blind spot: closing the feedback loop between pre-hire candidate evaluation and post-hire employee performance and retention. https://hrtechfeed.com/crosschq-rebrands-as-brilliant-ai-combining-three-hr-tech-platforms-to-create-hiring-intelligence-category/ ATLANTA — Predictive hiring and assessment provider Harver has acquired Symphony Talent, a major player in recruitment marketing, employer branding, and candidate relationship management (CRM). Backed by private equity firm Rubicon Technology Partners, the newly merged entity aims to address the talent lifecycle from upfront recruitment marketing to post-hire performance. By integrating Symphony Talent’s recruitment marketing and CRM capabilities with Harver’s pre-employment assessments, fraud detection, and reference-checking tools, the combined company will offer: Attraction & Engagement: Employer value proposition (EVP) development, programmatic job advertising, custom career sites, and CRM-driven talent communities. Selection & Verification: Validated predictive assessments, video interviewing, reference checking, and candidate fraud detection. Workforce Intelligence: End-to-end data feedback loops connecting initial recruitment targeting with quality-of-hire and long-term employee retention. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Symphony Talent will operate under the Harver umbrella, positioning the unified business to compete directly with integrated enterprise talent clouds. https://hrtechfeed.com/harver-acquires-symphony-talent/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 21 · 23 min

    How AI is Reshaping Career Sites

    For years, we’ve built career sites for two audiences: human candidates and basic search engines. But right now, candidates aren’t just scrolling through job boards anymore—they’re asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI assistants to find their next role, evaluate company culture, and summarize opportunities. That shift means your career site is no longer just being read by people; it’s being parsed, filtered, and judged by AI. Joining us today to break down this shift is Brianna Huynh, VP of Brand and Creative at Appcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 17 · 7 min

    Jack & Jill Land $40 Million!

    Boomband, a new talent intelligence platform founded by Monster.com creator Jeff Taylor, officially rolled out across all six New England states on Wednesday. Headquartered in Wakefield, Rhode Island, the startup is directly targeting the region’s dense concentration of tech, healthcare, finance, and higher-education employers, bringing nearly 500,000 local, hybrid, and remote roles to the platform at launch. According to Boomband, the traditional online job board model has collapsed under a flood of low-signal, AI-generated applications. The average job posting drew 244 applications in 2025, more than double the volume from 2022, while the regional search cycle for candidates now stretches to an average of 6.6 months. “In a roundabout way, I helped build the system that is now breaking hiring,” said Taylor, Boomband’s founder and CEO. “With Monster.com, we took the Help Wanted section from the newspaper to the internet… Now overlay AI on top of that broken foundation, and you have a full collapse. Everyone is drowning in volume and starving for signal.” By debuting regionally, Boomband aims to give New England employers a localized network that bypasses the flood of irrelevant, nationwide resume-spamming while surfacing local candidates based on actual skill alignment and commute preferences. https://hrtechfeed.com/boomband-expands-to-new-england-for-debut-of-new-ai-talent-platform/ SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON — AI-native hiring marketplace Jack & Jill has raised a $40 million Series A round to upend traditional recruitment and make warm professional introductions at scale. Founded by Matthew Wilson (CEO) and Saaras Mehan (CTO), the platform operates on a dual-agent model designed to eliminate cold outreach, resume spam, and traditional job boards: Jackis a voice agent dedicated to job seekers, holding conversations with professionals to deeply understand their career ambitions, preferences, and ideal roles. Jillis an embedded recruiting agent for companies, learning team dynamics, technical bars, and culture to surface vetted talent. Rather than candidates submitting resumes into applicant tracking systems (ATS), the two autonomous agents negotiate on behalf of their respective sides. When both agents agree on mutual alignment, they directly facilitate a warm introduction between the candidate and hiring team—skipping the application phase altogether. The company says they have already registered 389k candidates and count 5k employers as clients. https://hrtechfeed.com/jack-jill-secures-40m-series-a-to-replace-job-applications-with-ai-agents/ NEW YORK — BoomerangHR has closed a $12.7 million seed round to expand its AI-powered offboarding and corporate alumni platform, targeting a talent market where trusted candidate signals are becoming increasingly scarce. Founded by CEO Jeff Wald, BoomerangHR is designed to democratize the structured alumni networks historically reserved for elite consulting firms and investment banks. The platform plugs into existing HRIS and ATS stacks in under an hour, focusing on three core operational pillars: Automated Offboarding: Alumni Network Management: Talent Migration & Reporting: “A company’s relationship with great talent shouldn’t end when they leave,” said Wald. “We built BoomerangHR to automate offboarding and transform former team members into an active growth network. Through Boomerang, companies can easily access warm rehires, referrals, and sales leads—because your best next hire is someone who already knows your culture, your customers, and your mission.” https://hrtechfeed.com/boomeranghr-secures-12-7m-seed-round-to-turn-offboarding-into-an-ongoing-talent-engine/ The Las Vegas Raiders have selected human resources and workforce technology provider UKG to manage and streamline operations across the franchise’s business, football, and gameday staff. Under the new agreement, the NFL franchise will deploy the UKG Pro suite to consolidate human resources, payroll, and workforce intelligence onto a single operating platform. The move is designed to connect a wide-ranging employee base—from coaches, trainers, and front-office executives to hourly and frontline stadium workers. https://hrtechfeed.com/ukg-lands-an-nfl-team/ Workday, Inc. has named Sarah Kennedy Ellis chief marketing officer, effective October 5, 2026, reporting to Aneel Bhusri, Workday co-founder, CEO, and chair. Kennedy Ellis will lead Workday’s global marketing and communications organization and will be responsible for championing the company’s brand narrative and growth strategy for the AI era. Kennedy Ellis brings more than 20 years of marketing expertise to the role. She joins Workday from Google, where she led global marketing for Google Cloud and Google Workspace and helped build the engine behind one of the fastest growing businesses in enterprise technology. Prior to joining Google, she was chief marketing officer of Adobe Experience Cloud, and chief marketing officer of Marketo, playing a critical role in Marketo’s successful acquisition by Adobe in 2018. https://hrtechfeed.com/workday-has-a-new-cmo/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 10 · 5 min

    Hackajob Gets a New Name, UKG Adds Voice

    Linkup published their august 2026 jobs report; Key Takeaways Job openings stayed flat: Active job listings rose 0.1% in August 2026, to 4.96 million from 4.95 million in July. This suggests that underlying labor demand in the U.S. remained steady, alongside seasonal recruitment adjustments. Broad-based industry gains: Industries that saw an increase in job postings include Wholesale Trade (2.7k), Construction (1.6k), and Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (1.2k). However, Retail Trade saw the largest decrease (-4.8k). Major occupation drops: Office and Administrative Support occupations experienced the largest drop (-9.4k) followed by Installation, Maintenance, and Repair (-7.0k), and Production (-6.1k). https://hrtechfeed.com/august-2026-jobs-recap/ UKG has introduced several new AI-driven capabilities aimed at supporting frontline workforces, accelerating bulk recruitment, and preventing costly payroll discrepancies. Key among these updates is UKG Bryte Voice, a voice-enabled assistant integrated with UKG Pro that allows deskless staff—such as retail and healthcare workers—to execute routine tasks (like checking schedules, reviewing timecards, or updating direct deposit information) hands-free via Siri or Google Assistant. For talent acquisition, the platform now provides AI-assisted high-volume hiring tools, including candidate job recommendations, profile summaries, and a "Bulk Apply" workflow capable of processing up to 100 applicants simultaneously. Finally, UKG rolled out Agentic Pay, which allows administrators to examine historical pay data and resolve discrepancies before processing payroll through natural language queries to eliminate costly errors. https://hrtechfeed.com/ukg-launches-voice-enabled-ai-and-agentic-pay-tools-to-support-frontline-workers/ TORONTO — 7shifts, the restaurant HR platform, today announced the launch of Employee Training, a restaurant-specific training solution built directly into 7shifts. The new offering gives restaurants a simpler way to train their teams without adding another standalone tool. The launch expands 7shifts’ role across the restaurant employee lifecycle, bringing hiring, onboarding, training, scheduling, pay, and retention together in one platform. Formerly known for scheduling and payroll, 7shifts has now fully evolved into a comprehensive HR platform. “Operators are done paying for separate software to hire, onboard, train, schedule, and pay their staff, they want one system for the entire HR employee lifecycle, not a patchwork of tools that don’t talk to each other,” said Jordan Boesch, chief executive officer at 7shifts. “When it’s all in one place, teams get strong faster and managers get time back to actually develop their people.” https://hrtechfeed.com/restaurant-hr-platform-adds-employee-training-feature/ In HR tech partnership news Match2, the platform powering the Universal Candidate Profile™, today announced that its Connected Talent Solutions™ is now available on SAP® Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. PageUp, a global leader in talent acquisition software, and Sapia.ai, the pioneer in conversational AI for talent evaluation, today announced an enhanced strategic partnership. Building on their established relationship, the deepened integration links Sapia.ai’s autonomous, skills-based interviewing with PageUp’s newly advanced AI functionality. Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, and ADP, a global leader in HR and payroll solutions, today announced an expanded, strategic partnership. The partnership affirms AWS as ADP’s strategic cloud provider, enabling its continued AI transformation and ongoing innovation of generative and agentic AI solutions for its more than 1.1 million clients across 140 countries and territories. https://hrtechfeed.com/hr-tech-partnerships-in-the-news/ And finally the CEO of Hackajob Mark Chaffey share d on Linkedin today that the company will now be known as its core product name, Archer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 8 · 29 min

    SIA Report: The Digital Workforce in Recruitment 2026

    Joining me today is John Nurthen, Executive Director of Global Research at Staffing Industry Analysts. John has spent more than three decades in the staffing industry—and he has just authored a global research report titled The Digital Workforce in Recruitment 2026. In it, John maps out how digital worker agents——are moving from the fringes directly into the recruiting lifecycle. We’ll be breaking down why the future isn't about fully replacing human recruiters, the hidden risks of 'AI sprawl' and compliance liabilities, and how leaders must learn to manage a mixed workforce of employees, contractors, and algorithms. https://www.staffingindustry.com/who-we-are/john-nurthen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 3 · 6 min

    Salesforce Gives Hibob $166M

    In this weeks episode sponsored by Dalia.co * Hibob gets infusion of cash, Recruiter.com acquires Feenyx, Staffmark's report on AI in recruiting, new features from ICIMS and Vervoe. READ ON https://hrtechfeed.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • September 1 · 10 min

    Candidate Pushback & The New Era of Transparency

    In this episode Chris Russell explores how job seekers are taking transparency into their own hands with new consumer tools like DidTheyGhostYou.com and JobScamScore.com. We break down how public ghosting leaderboards and AI scam-detection tools actually work, why they are becoming an early-warning radar for your employer brand, and the practical steps recruiters can take to protect candidate trust and optimize their ATS workflows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 27 · 6 min

    LinkedIn Changes Job Ad Pricing

    First up: If you’ve logged into your recruitment dashboard recently and noticed your LinkedIn ad campaigns look a little different, you aren't imagining it. LinkedIn officially retired its daily and 30-day "slot" campaigns and migrated everyone over to a Pay-for-Performance—or P4P—model. Here’s what that actually means for your hiring budget: Instead of buying calendar airtime where you pay regardless of engagement, you now pick a fixed budget tier—either $299, $399, or $549. You only pay when a candidate clicks "Apply." Sounds great, right? But here’s the catch you need to know about: Your campaign ends as soon as the budget is spent, or after 30 days—whichever comes first. That means a high-demand role could burn through a $399 budget in twelve days, leaving your listing inactive for the rest of the month if you don't keep an eye on it. Plus, unused budget operates on a "use-it-or-lose-it" rule and won't roll over. Check your account settings this week to make sure your tier matches your hiring volume—and don't forget to verify your LinkedIn Company Page to keep your free organic listings flowing. Moving on to funding news: Background screening and workforce safety platform Yardstik has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Harbert Growth Partners, bringing their total capital raised to $65 million. Why is this important? Because traditional background checks have historically been built around a single "moment in time"—the day someone gets hired. But as Yardstik points out, workforce risk changes every single day. Yardstik is using this cash to double down on fraud prevention and continuous workforce monitoring. Instead of waiting for an annual review, their system alerts employers in real-time if a worker’s driver’s license lapses, insurance expires, or a regulatory exclusion occurs. With 98% account retention and clients like Gopuff and TaskRabbit, Yardstik is proving that ongoing fraud protection isn't just a premium add-on anymore—it's becoming the standard foundation for contingent and traditional workforces alike. In product news today, we have two major updates aimed at making talent acquisition smarter and faster. First, iHire released its new Hiring Market Insights dashboard. It lets recruiters compare candidate availability directly against job demand across specific metros and skills. If you’re struggling to hire a specific role, it tells you whether it's a candidate shortage or an overcrowded job market—helping you tweak job titles and expectations before launching a campaign. Meanwhile, assessment provider eSkill introduced Linea, an AI-powered intelligence layer built right into their platform using Anthropic's Claude models. Here’s why recruiters will love it: You can drop a job description into Linea, and in seconds, it drafts a custom skill assessment pulled from eSkill's library of 70,000 validated questions. Crucially, eSkill designed Linea with a "human-in-the-loop" approach—showing the AI's reasoning for every question so recruiters stay in full control of the final test. Finally, a brand new study from financial tech firms Branch and Stripe reveals a massive shift in how people work: Gig work is officially no longer just a "side hustle." According to their Gig Workforce Index—which surveyed over 1,000 flexible workers—56% of gig workers now rely on platform work for the majority of their household income. A few eye-opening stats from the report: The Competition is Wild: 60% of workers say they have to accept a posted gig in under two minutes before someone else snatches it up. The Multi-App Hustle: Nearly half balance three or more different apps simultaneously to keep income steady. Cash Flow is King: 78% experience weekly income fluctuations, and 72% spend their earnings within 24 hours just to cover gas, groceries, and bills. The takeaway for HR and platform leaders? Fast payouts and financial management tools are no longer perk add-ons—they are the primary driver of worker retention. https://hrtechfeed.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 21 · 7 min

    Upwork Earnings and Lattice Acquisition

    Employers using Dalia can double their conversion of career site visitors into qualified applicants and hires. Double the hires from traffic you already have. That's how you start cutting your dependence on Indeed. Learn more at dalia.co. That's D-A-L-I-A dot C-O. SAN FRANCISCO — Lattice, the best-in-class people platform where people and AI succeed together, today announced the acquisition of Pando, the just-in-time performance platform, and the appointment of Pando founder and CEO Barbra Gago as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. https://hrtechfeed.com/lattice-acquires-a-performance-platform/ CEO Hayden Brown detailed a structural transformation across the platform. While automated tools and AI solutions are reducing client demand for basic, entry-level freelance tasks, demand for specialized talent and complex projects is surging: https://hrtechfeed.com/upwork-pivots-to-high-value-work-as-ai-automation-weighs-on-volume-and-guidance/ Major announcements from two HR tech firms…hireEZ and Hirevue highlight two complementary trends driving the AI evolutionhe rise of agentic AI workflows that co-pilot talent acquisition, and a shift toward validated, science-backed skills evaluation. https://hrtechfeed.com/beyond-the-resume-how-2-hr-tech-firms-are-rebuilding-enterprise-recruitment-around-ai-agents-and-skills/ SAN FRANCISCO — Upwork Inc. (NASDAQ: UPWK) reported its second-quarter 2026 financial results, beating quarterly profit expectations through disciplined cost management but trimming its full-year outlook as artificial intelligence continues to automate lower-complexity tasks on the freelance platform.Key Q2 2026 Financial Highlights Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 17 · 30 min

    Newly Hired Chief People Officer Stef Bloom

    Stef Bloom is now the Chief People Officer at Spear Physical & Occupational Therapy, where she leads the company's people strategy across talent, culture, leadership development, and organizational growth. She brings nearly 20 years of experience building and scaling People functions at high-growth brands, including Framebridge, Casper, and Warby Parker. We talked about their HR tech stack, building culture and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • August 13 · 7 min

    Job Board News and a CEO Quits

    This episode is sponsored by Dalia— Who's ready for a cold hard fact? Indeed's pricing model -- and all programmatic job advertising -- is based on driving volume. Not outcomes. Job boards are incentivized to send you more volume. Meanwhile, TA teams know their career site is already their best source of quality applicants who get hired. Dalia fixes that. Millions of job seekers use Dalia every month to seamlessly connect to employer career sites and apply to jobs using their universal candidate profile. It integrates directly into your ATS, and it works instantly on any career site. Employers using Dalia can double their conversion of career site visitors into qualified applicants and hires. Double the hires from traffic you already have. That's how you start cutting your dependence on Indeed. Learn more at dalia.co. That's D-A-L-I-A dot C-O. Alright rec techies…..here’s what's happening this week. Toby Dayton, the longtime CEO of job market data firm LinkUp and Managing Director at parent company GlobalData, announced on Monday that he will step down at the end of September after a 25-year tenure at the helm. His monthly column on the job market was a must read. https://hrtechfeed.com/linkup-ceo-toby-dayton-to-step-down-after-25-years/ WILMINGTON, Del. — Careerminds, a global workforce solutions and career technology provider, announced today that it has acquired Jobrapido, one of the world’s leading job search and job distribution platforms. https://hrtechfeed.com/careerminds-acquires-jobrapido/ CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Medality, a TrueLearn brand, announced the launch of the Medality Job Board at jobs.medality.com, a hiring platform built exclusively for radiology. The new job board helps radiologists, residents, and fellows discover vetted career opportunities from leading academic institutions, private practices, and health systems, while giving employers direct access to the highly engaged physicians who already make up Medality’s education community. https://hrtechfeed.com/medality-launches-job-board-connecting-employers-with-radiology-talent/ Recruit Holdings released its Q1 FY2026 earnings results (covering April 1 to June 30, 2026), and the headline story is a massive performance boost driven primarily by its HR Technology segment—led by strong dynamics in the U.S. market. https://hrtechfeed.com/recruit-holdings-hr-tech-segment-soars-q1-results-and-big-guidance-upgrades/ SAN FRANCISCO—-Metaview, the Agentic Recruiting Platform trusted by more than 5,000 companies, today announced the acquisition of AI-native recruiting firm Reval. Founders Seth Tilliss and Aditya Gupta will join Metaview to accelerate development of fillmore, its autonomous AI coworker that owns recruiting top of funnel, from sourcing candidates to booking qualified screening calls. https://hrtechfeed.com/metaview-acquires-reval-to-accelerate-the-shift-from-ai-assistants-to-ai-coworkers/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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