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2026-09-25
2026-09-24
2026-09-23
2026-09-20
- Harver acquires Symphony Talent, merging assessment science with recruitment marketing
- DWP review finds AI can curb disability bias in hiring — but not increase disabled hiring
- EU AI Office's first inspection wave puts HR screening tools under direct scrutiny
- Nearly half of professionals distrust AI in hiring, ACCA global survey finds
2026-09-16
- UK Parliament committee calls for wide-ranging AI Bill covering recruitment and hiring
- California's 'No Robo Bosses Act' and AI layoff notice bill land on Newsom's desk
- Federal retreat on disparate impact pushes AI hiring bias risk to the states — and the courts
- UK Employment Tribunal backlog hits record 70,000 claims as hiring-dispute reforms approach
2026-09-13
- UK Permanent Hiring Rises for the First Time in Four Years
- ManpowerGroup: Two-Thirds of Employers Hiring Are Buying New Skills, Not Replacing Old Ones
- Global Agency Job Postings Up 5% — But Europe's 9% Hides Asia's 3% Decline
- iCIMS: Job Seekers Are Learning AI Faster Than Employers Are Training Them
- UK Right-to-Work Checks Will Reach Up the Supply Chain From 1 October
2026-09-04
- Uber Drivers File Collective Action Over Algorithmic Pay in Amsterdam
- Half of UK Workers Plan to Change Jobs This Year, Robert Half Survey Finds
- Data Centre Buildout Hits a Talent Wall: Kelly Warns of Acute Skilled-Worker Shortage
- BambooHR: Workers Lose 20 Days a Year Fixing AI Output — and 67% of HR Would Let AI Interview Alone
- AI Automated the Work. The Talking — and the Unprepared Managers — Are What's Left.
2026-08-26
- Dutch Regulator Fines Uber €825 Million for Algorithmic 'Robo-Firing' of Drivers
- DBS Overhauls Employer Guidance for Criminal Record Update Service
- EU AI Act Hiring Rules Slip to December 2027 — the Explainability Duty Didn't Move
- US Dominates Global AI Talent Rankings — but Its Lead Is Shrinking From Both Ends
- India's Capability Centres Say Finding the Right Talent Now Outranks Paying for It
2026-08-25
2026-08-23
2026-08-19
- Colorado's Draft AI Hiring Rules Go Beyond the Statute — and Most Resume Rankers Land Inside
- AI Hiring Compliance Lives With Privacy Teams — Most Haven't Noticed
- One AI Recruitment Platform, Twenty Legal Regimes: The Multinational Compliance Trap
- AI Hiring Is a Regulated Employment Practice — Not a Procurement Decision
2026-08-18
2026-08-16
- UK Permanent Placements Finally Stop Falling After 45 Months
- Study: AI Hiring Tools Invent Biases That Were Never in the Data
- Moka AI Puts a Number on Its Recruiting Agent: 75% Faster, Self-Reported
- Talent Platforms' Gross Spend Fell 2% — AI Is Both the Cause and the Fix
- German Firms Expect AI to Push Junior Wages Down — US Data Says It Already Has
2026-08-14
2026-08-13
2026-08-12
2026-08-11
2026-08-09
- Indeed Pauses AI Auto-Apply After Employers Revolt Over Paying for Bot Submissions
- US Layoffs Hit 2-Year Low in July, But AI Is Still the Reason One-Third of the Time
- AI Hiring Assessments Are Almost Never Tested for Disability Bias — and One Vendor Just Admitted It on the Record
- Safehire.ai Raises £500k to Scale AI-Powered Digital Risk Screening for High-Trust Hiring
2026-08-07
- UK Opens Global Talent Visa to 100+ Companies, Unlocking Direct Hiring of International Researchers
- Three-Quarters of UK Recruitment Teams Now Hire Direct, Squeezing Agency Budgets
- Adecco Targets 50% of Revenue Through Agentic AI by December — and Has the Numbers to Back It
- Microsoft Kills Its Feedback Tool After Employees Start Using AI to Write Each Other's Reviews
2026-08-06
- UK Hiring Slides to 32% Below Pre-Pandemic While AI Mentions Hit Record High
- US Private Sector Added Just 44,000 Jobs in July as JOLTS Shows a Labour Market in Steady-State
- AI Is Driving Outplacement Costs to $20 Per Worker — And That Changes the Offboarding Calculus
- UK Recruitment Data Shows a Widening Gap: Job Ads Up 12%, Applications Down 5%
2026-08-05
- As Federal AI Hiring Oversight Recedes, States Build a Compliance Patchwork
- ICO Tells UK Employers: If You're Using AI to Filter Candidates, You're Probably Doing ADM
- CHROs Are the C-Suite's AI Pessimists — and That May Be the Point
- EU AI Act High-Risk Rules for Recruitment Take Effect
- Three in Five Managers Use AI to Decide Who Gets Laid Off
2026-08-04
- Deel Acquires Deepfake Detection Firm as Gartner Warns One in Four Applications Will Be Synthetic by 2028
- Recruitics and Workday Back Open Standard to Help Employers Talk to AI Job Agents
- hackajob's Pre-Apply AI Agent Hits $3M ARR in Nine Months by Staying Outside the ATS
- LinkedIn Adds 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button and Scraps Its Own AI Writing Tool
2026-08-02
2026-07-31
2026-07-30
2026-07-29
- EDPB Web Scraping Guidelines: Consent Won't Work for AI Training, Legitimate Interest Is the Only Path
- Seyfarth Midyear Report: AI Hiring Rules, Pay Transparency, and State Law Patchwork Define H2 2026 Compliance
- EU Pay Transparency Directive: June Deadline Passed, But Only 4 of 27 States Have Transposed It
2026-07-28
2026-07-27
2026-07-26
- US Labour Market Stuck in Still Water: Low Churn, Flat Hiring, Wages Trailing Inflation
- Phenom Pushes Multi-Agent AI Governance as Gartner Warns 40% of Agentic Projects Will Be Cancelled
- EU Commission's Own Court Objects to Its AI Recruitment Tool — Citing the EU's Own AI Act
- 313,000 London Workers in Highest AI-Exposure Roles, GLA Taskforce Warns of 'Quieter Drift'
2026-07-24
- ONS Data: Youth Unemployment Hits 11-Year High as UK Vacancies Fall to 712,000
- EU AI Act Delay Doesn't Touch Three Obligations Still Hitting Employers on 2 August
- Half of Employers Send Managers Into Probation Decisions With No Training, Survey Finds
- 55% of UK Employees Work Outside Hours Daily — Nearly Double the European Average
2026-07-23
- HBR Research Finds Reply Speed Skews Hiring More Than Qualifications
- Indeed's Opaque Search Results Are Pushing Employers Toward New Competitors
- Brookings Warns AI Hiring Bias Goes Deeper Than the Tools — It's in the Training Pipeline
- Jobtrain Data: 78% of UK Hiring Is Replacement, and 27% of Candidates Spend an Hour Per Application
- Rippling's Executive Hiring Playbook: Test for the Job, Not the Pedigree
2026-07-22
2026-07-21
2026-07-20
- Data Center Hiring Has Doubled in Two Years — and Most of It Isn't Software Roles
- Cognizant Is Hiring 25,000 Graduates a Year While Everyone Else Pulls Back
- UK Temp Billings Hit Three-Year High as Permanent Hiring Keeps Sliding
- Boards Are Asking 'Do We Have AI?' When They Should Ask Where AI Makes Decisions
2026-07-16
- Bersin and AMS: Leading TA Teams Are Replacing AI Pilots With Enterprise Talent Architectures
- Meta Sued for AI-Driven Layoffs That Allegedly Penalised Workers on Protected Leave
- London Workers Adopt AI at Nearly Double the UK Rate, Widening Regional Skills Divide
- Bank of America Filled 14,000 Roles Internally in 2025 by Treating Mobility as Infrastructure
2026-07-13
2026-07-12
- Microsoft Cuts 4,800 Jobs as AI Reshapes the Work Itself
- iCIMS Data: Openings Up 19% as Application Volume Stalls
- Employ and ID.me Partner as Candidate Fraud Hits Systemic Levels
- 'Botsitting' Burns Six Hours a Week as AI Adoption Backfires
- Insight Global to Hire 1,700 as AI Demand Drives Staffing Recovery
2026-07-10
- UK Temp Billings Hit Three-Year High as Permanent Hiring Decline Eases
- UK IT Vacancies Jump 42% in Q2 as Tech Hiring Rebounds From Annual Low
- EU's Draft AI Guidelines Draw the Line: If Your Tool 'Materially Influences' Hiring, It's High-Risk
- CXR Foundation Proposes Baseline Standard: Tell Every Applicant When They're Out
- Acas Handled 150,000+ Dispute Claims as Employment Rights Overhaul Drove Record Demand
2026-07-09
- Only 18% of Organisations Are Getting Real Value From AI in Talent, Accenture Finds
- Conference Board: Employment Trends Index Falls for Second Straight Month
- Citi's HR Team Ran a Hackathon. An Internal Mobility Tool Won.
- Second-Chance Hiring: The Talent Pool Most TA Teams Have Structurally Excluded
- OECD: UK Has Third-Highest Unemployment Rise and Second-Highest AI Exposure in the Bloc
2026-07-08
2026-07-06
- 7.6 Million Job Openings and Nobody's Moving: The Confidence Crisis Behind the JOLTS Numbers
- Skills England Maps the Gaps: 10 Sectors, One Message — The Pipeline Isn't Ready
- UK Hiring Intentions Defy Global Cooling — but the North-South Gap Is Widening
- AI Is Splitting the Labour Market in Two — and Entry-Level Hiring Is Taking the Hit
2026-07-04
- US hiring slows to a crawl in June as downward revisions erase 74,000 jobs from spring
- UK Treasury scrapped graduate maths test after finding it disadvantaged ethnic minority candidates
- Tech layoffs surge 83% in first half of 2026, with AI cited as the number-one reason
- A worker just won a religious exemption from using AI. Here's what it means for recruiting tools
2026-07-03
- The EU AI Act's employment deadline is 30 days away — and most staffing firms aren't ready
- UK unfair dismissal rights now cover new hires after just 6 months — and employers are spooked
- 98% of TA functions are 'transforming' — but half admit their AI policies can't keep pace
- UK data watchdog tells employers: your automated screening is probably illegal
2026-07-02
- Nine in 10 CVs now contain AI-generated inconsistencies — and recruiters are fighting back with AI of their own
- EEOC rescinds 40-year-old affirmative action guidelines, tells employers to review DEI-related criteria now
- Should AI use be tracked in performance reviews? Experts say the metric alone 'doesn't encourage the right behaviours'
- The 2026 Verizon DBIR confirms it: your TA team is the first line of defence against state-backed employment fraud
- Global employee engagement drops to 20% — and managers are leading the slide
- Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI deployment fails — and admits it cut headcount on belief, not evidence
- ADP: Private hiring misses estimates as US labour market continues to cool
- 68% of HR leaders fear AI is turning candidates into numbers — and new research says the fear is warranted
2026-06-30
2026-06-26
- Appcast Partners with OpenAI — Your Jobs Are Now Discoverable Inside ChatGPT
- SAP Named Fosway Strategic Leader for Talent Acquisition — Sixth Consecutive Year, With Customer Results to Match
- 90% Use AI for Recruiting — But Fewer Than 5% See Transformational Results. The Problem Is Process, Not Technology.
2026-06-24
- AI Talent Demand Surges 35% as Tech Layoffs Mask a Deeper Shift
- The Business Case for Frontline Hiring Has Moved From HR to the P&L
- SHRM CEO Warns HR Is Facing 'Extinction' — and TA Is No Exception
- Your AI Recruiting Tools Are Probably Missing Hidden Talent — Here's How to Fix That
- One in Four Hiring Managers Are Cutting Back on 2026 Graduates — and It's Not Just About AI
2026-06-23
- The EU AI Act Draws a Line: Who Is Accountable When AI Hiring Goes Wrong
- AI Hallucinations, Bias, and Data Breaches: The Recruitment Risks Most HR Teams Are Ignoring
- PwC Data Shows AI Is Splitting the Labour Market in Two — And Entry-Level Hiring Will Never Look the Same
- Employer Branding in 2026 Has Stopped Being About Slogans — It's About Every Single Candidate Touchpoint
2026-06-21
- Candidates Are Outpacing Employers in AI Adoption, iCIMS and Aptitude Research Finds
- Eightfold AI Named Strategic Leader in Fosway 9-Grid for Talent Acquisition for Fourth Year
- UK Information Commissioner Puts AI Hiring Tools on Notice: 'Human in the Loop' Is No Longer Enough
- SHRM 2026 Talent Trends Report: Nearly 70% of HR Professionals Still Struggle to Recruit
2026-06-20
2026-06-19
- HireVue Launches AI Voice Interviewer — Two-Way Voice Interviews at Scale, Grounded in 20 Years of Hiring Science
- Nexxt Survey: 80% of Job Seekers Plan to Apply More in 2026 — 45% Are Using AI in Their Job Search
- SmartRecruiters Lays Out Autonomous TA Vision — Winston AI Agentic Capabilities Expand With SAP SuccessFactors Integration
2026-06-18
2026-06-17
- Indeed Launches AI-Powered Sourcing Assistant — and Claims It Will Save Recruiters Seven Hours a Week
- HeyMilo Raises $6 Million to Deploy AI Agents That Assess Candidates Beyond the Resume
- Orbio Raises $21 Million to Bring AI-Powered Hiring and Retention to the 2.7 Billion Frontline Workers Traditional Software Ignores
- Nearly Half of Employers Have Unknowingly Hired an AI Fraudster, Checkr Survey Reveals
2026-06-16
- DOJ Rules EEOC's Disparate Impact Guidelines Unconstitutional, Reshaping Hiring Liability Landscape
- CHROs Report Hiring Will Concentrate on Specific Roles Only — Broad Hiring Is Over
- Ghost Job Ads Under Fire: Five States Move to Ban Fake Listings as Lawmakers Target Employer Deception
- Eightfold AI Named Strategic Leader in Fosway 9-Grid as Agentic Talent Acquisition Goes Mainstream
- Majority of CHROs Report 'Precision Hiring' Is the New Normal as Focus Narrows to Specific Roles
- Most hiring automation stops at the apply button, benchmark report finds
- SHRM: AI in talent acquisition is shifting recruiters from operators to advisors
- Greenhouse launches AI features built for structured hiring — not shortcuts
2026-06-15
- Recruiters Spending Twice as Long on the Phone — and AI Is the Reason
- The Job Board Isn't Dead. The Business Model Is.
- Eightfold Named a Visionary in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Acquisition
- Employers 'Still Playing Catch-Up' on AI Risk Management, Littler Survey Finds
- Hiring Needs to Enter Its 'Seduction' Era, TA Leader Tells SHRM Talent
2026-06-14
- Lattice Brings Performance Data Into AI Workflows With MCP and Leverage Insights
- New York Passes Bill Targeting Ghost Jobs, With Fines of Up to $2,500 Per Posting
- CHRO Confidence Holds Near Record High, But Hiring Becomes Sharply Targeted
- SHRM's June Tech Download: Meta Backtracks on AI Monitoring, Microsoft Pilots Wearable Office Devices
2026-06-13
2026-06-12
- Indeed Makes Free Job Postings Nearly Invisible — Sponsored Listings Become the Only Path to Visibility
- AI Is Devaluing the Resume — Only a Third of Employers Trust Them to Reflect Real Skills
- Phenom and ServiceNow Embed AI Hiring Agents Directly Into Enterprise Workflows
- Global Hiring Intentions Hold at 26% — But Economic Caution, Not AI, Is Driving Employer Hesitation
2026-06-11
- Tech Layoff Headlines Mask AI-Driven Hiring Surge, iCIMS Data Reveals
- Recruiters Spent a Record 286 Minutes Per Week on Calls in Q1 — AI Freed Them to Do It
- AI-Generated Resumes Flood Applicant Pools, Undermining Traditional Hiring Signals
- HR Tech 2026 Agenda Leans Into Real-World AI Implementation and Skills-Based Transformation
2026-06-10
- Meta Backtracks on Employee Monitoring After Internal Revolt — A Signal for Workplace AI Governance
- Early-Career Hiring Is Reaching a Breaking Point, iCIMS Data Shows — AI Is Both the Cause and the Cure
- Deloitte: Most TA Teams Are Stuck Between Pilot AI and Structural AI — The Gap Is Costing Them
- Candidate Fraud Is Getting Smarter — SmartRecruiters Responds with Behavioral Detection
- Bad Tech Is Costing Your Company $4 Million a Year — And Quiet Workarounds Are Hiding the Damage
2026-06-09
- Demo: How the New Takeaway Format Works
- EU AI Act's Recruitment Provisions Take Effect — What TA Leaders Need to Do Now
- Skills-Based Hiring Reaches 70% Adoption — NACE Survey Confirms the Shift Is Accelerating
- LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant Goes Multilingual — Agentic AI for Recruiting Expands Beyond English
- The Post-Apply Black Hole: New Research Finds 94% of Employers Still Can't Schedule Interviews Inline
- AI Is Stress-Testing Hiring — and Trust Is Failing, New Data Shows
- "Recruitment Is Broken" — SHRM Argues the AI Arms Race Is Making Hiring Worse, Not Better
- iCIMS Frontline AI Cuts Time-to-Fill by 75% — But Market Data Shows Hiring Is in a 'Hibernation'
2026-06-08
- Stanford Study of 4 Million Applications Shows Hiring Algorithm Audits Can Disguise Bias
- AI Is Now the #1 Reason Companies Give for Job Cuts — Third Straight Month, 40% of May Layoffs
- Indeed Launches Smart Screening — Structured Candidate Evaluation Replaces Resume Keyword Filtering
- Illinois Postpones AI-in-Employment Rulemaking — But the Underlying Law Still Applies
- SHL Data: Most Hiring Processes Are Not Built to Find the Class of 2026's Most AI-Ready Candidates
2026-06-07
- AI Is Now the #1 Reason Companies Give for Job Cuts — 40% of All US Layoffs in May
- Job Openings Surge to 7.62M — But Hiring Fell by 400,000. The Labor Market Has Never Been More Confusing.
- The 'Great Pause': Trust in Hiring Collapses as Candidates Step Away From the Job Market
- 86% of Recruiters Have Caught or Suspect Candidate Fraud — AI Is Both the Cause and the Only Way to Detect It
- iCIMS Bets Big on Frontline AI: 75% Faster Time-to-Fill in the Hourly Hiring Crisis
2026-06-06
- Precision Over Scale: The Permanent Shift in Hiring Strategy
- JobGet Acquires RippleMatch — The Sixth Sign of Hiring Tech Consolidation
- Hiring Processes Miss the Class of 2026 — SHL Data Says Graduates Are Your Best AI Bet
- Indeed Smart Screening Signals a Major Shift — From Candidate Reach to Candidate Quality
- More Applicants, Less Quality — The AI Application Arms Race Is Real
2026-06-05
- Amazon Deploys AI Agents That Conduct Job Interviews — Hiring Software Goes Fully Autonomous
- “Low Hire, Low Fire” Is the New Baseline — Lean Teams and AI Reshape TA Economics
- 76% of TA Leaders Expect to Replace Their Primary Recruiting Platform Within Two Years — Tech Stack Churn Accelerates
- AI in Hiring Is Widespread but Not Broad — Integration Gap Persists Into Mid-2026
- SHRM: TA Teams Are Shrinking — 'Wrenching Change' Ahead as AI Reshapes Recruiting
- Job Openings Hit 12-Month High — But Applications Are Down and Gen Z Is Slipping Away
- Eightfold Brings Agentic Interviewing to Oracle's Recruiting Cloud — Cutting Time-to-Hire From 42 Days to Under a Week
- Five Years In, the Recruiter Experience Hasn't Improved — Technology Is the Reason Why
- Contrario's Bet: Don't Replace Recruiters With AI — Give Them AI Agents and Watch Revenue Hit $6M
2026-06-04
- EU AI Act Countdown: Recruitment Tech Faces High-Risk Classification by August
- AI in TA Is Widespread but Not Broad — Integration Gap Is Costing ROI
- AI Adoption in HR Hits 43% — But 66% of Candidates Would Avoid AI-Driven Employers
- One-Third of Companies Expect AI to Run Hiring by End of 2026 — Training Investment Not Keeping Pace
- Gartner: AI Revolution and Cost Pressures Are the Two Forces Reshaping TA in 2026