On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued a new executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” officially revoking Executive Order 11246. This landmark decision significantly alters the landscape of employment practices for federal contractors and subcontractors by effectively ending affirmative action in employment. Here’s what the repeal means for the hire industry...
In today’s fast-paced and competitive job market, recruiting has become more complex than ever. The sheer volume of applicants—often hundreds or thousands for a single job posting—makes it challenging for recruiters to manage candidate pools effectively. Compounding the problem are spam artists, duplicate applications, and inefficiencies stemming from disparate systems. With artificial intelligence (AI), these...
Hiring signals, the rise of LinkedIn, and AI recruitment bot wars. 2024 was a tough year for recruitment advertising across the world. After a decade of almost continuous growth between 2012–2022 and a lightning-fast recovery after COVID-19 2023 and 2024 were the first years where job advertising and online recruitment suffered significantly after 2008’s financial...
As organizations continue to grapple with job advertising challenges, survey data from Talent Tech Labs reveals growing concerns about candidate quality, costs, and return on investment (ROI). These issues highlight the value of emerging tools like programmatic job advertising and job distribution, which are designed to tackle these hurdles head-on. In the previous chapters of...
In the evolving world of recruitment, budget decisions for job advertising are becoming more art than science. With many organizations still struggling to develop clear strategies, it’s no surprise that only about half of those surveyed in Talent Tech Labs’ 2024 report have a defined approach to managing their job advertising budgets. A quarter of...
Effective job advertising is the cornerstone of successful recruitment. To build a strong talent pool and begin the vetting process, employers must ensure their job ads reach the right audience. However, optimizing this process requires a delicate balance between candidate quantity and quality. Too narrow of a focus may lead to extended hiring timelines and...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming workforce management by enabling smarter, data-driven decision-making. With over 20 years of experience serving the HR industry with cutting-edge automation solutions, Veritone has achieved significant milestones in optimizing labor efficiency, predicting workforce needs, and improving employee satisfaction. However, building and scaling AI-driven systems for workforce management comes with its own...
This year’s HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas is quickly approaching. Veritone Hire will be conducting a session with our customer, Horizontal Talent. We’ll share Horizontal Talent’s real-world application of AI programmatic job advertising and how it impacted their bottom line. Here’s a sneak preview of what we’ll discuss in this session. Horizontal’s success with...
By Moshe Kigler & Amy Strong Indeed, the # 1 job site in the world recently announced two key policy changes to their sponsored jobs API, impacting recruiters in the US. First, effective September 1, 2024, the use of the Sponsored Jobs API will be limited to paying customers that sponsor their jobs through a...
Summary: AI technologies like machine learning and natural language processing significantly enhance talent acquisition by optimizing job advertising, improving candidate assessment, and automating recruitment processes. AI helps organizations measure critical recruitment metrics, such as quality of hire, time-to-fill, and cost per hire, offering data-driven insights that improve hiring efficiency and effectiveness. While AI offers transformative...