London-based programmatic recruitment media company SonicJobs has made three executive appointments: CEO and co-founder Mikhil Raja announced on LinkedIn that Heidi Denger (formerly of Glassdoor and Monster), James Winfrey (formerly of Leoforce and T...

Humanly’s recent acquisition spree --- Sprockets in  South Carolina, Indiana-based Qualifi and HourWork in Massachusetts --- marks one of the boldest consolidation plays in recruiting technology this year. Founded in 2018 by CEO Prem Kumar, Andrew Ga...

After a period of radio silence, Bold Holdings --- which recently acquired Monster and CareerBuilder --- has broken cover. In a video posted on LinkedIn, Jamie Freundlich, co-founder and co-CEO of Bold, outlined the company’s plans for Monster and Ca...

San Francisco-based human-in-the-loop AI company Mercor has raised $350 million in Series C funding. The round, which valued the company at around $10 billion, was led by Felicis, with participation from Benchmark and General Catalyst --- all existin...

New York City-based HR tech startup Greenhouse Software is working with Warden.ai --- a U.K.-based start-up specializing in algorithmic auditing --- to introduce continuous, third-party bias reviews of its AI-driven hiring tools.
The collaboration co...

Redwood City, Calif.-based Findem, which describes itself as "an AI-powered talent acquisition platform," has raised $51 million in funding, consisting of $36 million in a Series C funding round led by Silver Lake Waterman and $15 million in debt fin...

Saudi-based hiring marketplace and recruitment app Kanz is seeking to train workers in the use of AI as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030, an initiative that aims to reduce the country’s dependence on oil revenues by expanding ne...

London-based job aggregator Adzuna has unveiled AI-powered job matching search that it says understands user intent, reflecting a wider industry shift from keyword to contextual search.
"We’ve built a brand-new AI-powered search, the biggest upgrade ...

HackAJob built and trialed agentic voice agents over six months
Agents recorded productivity gains in candidate sourcing, matching, hiring
Agentic system handles 15,000 conversations, 70,000 matches weekly

Tech-focused recruitment marketplace HackAJ...

Job search and careers assistant Cassie.AI has launched in the U.K., Germany and the U.S.
Positioned as a “career co-pilot” that combines AI with aggregated job listings, it is the brainchild of Rhys Maddocks, the founder and CEO of mobile job search...

New York City-based freelancer marketplace WorkGenius has acquired the 49% of FuturePath GMBH that it didn't already own from Cariad SE, an automotive software company owned by the Volkswagen Group. Financial terms were not disclosed.
FuturePath’s da...

Palo Alto, California-based Micro1 raised $35 million in a Series A funding round last month that valued it at roughly $500 million. The round was led by 01 Advisors, a venture capital firm co-founded by former Twitter executives Adam Bain and Dick C...

Nasdaq-listed Veritone Inc. has "entered into a definitive agreement providing for the purchase and sale of an aggregate of 12,864,494 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $5.83 per share in a registered direct offering [RDO]," according to ...

Leading job board and aggregator Indeed has implemented Agentforce from CRM software provider Salesforce for customer-facing tasks like onboarding, account set-up and customer support.
Launched mid-2024, Agentforce is Salesforce’s “autonomous agent” ...

The jobs tab on X (formerly Twitter) appears to have been quietly removed. X Jobs was launched shortly after Elon Musk acquired the site in April 2022.
The change was spotted by Alexander Chukovski, founder of job board Crypto Careers and a HR tech c...

Programmatic recruitment advertising provider Appcast laid off 32 people on Thursday, about 6% of its workforce.
Matt Molinari, the company’s relatively new CEO, posted news of the layoffs on LinkedIn. He said those laid off would receive “generous s...

London-based talent technology company Sonic Jobs has recognized the contribution of chief commercial officer Ben Russell with promotion to co-founder.
Sonic Jobs co-founder Mikhil Raja made the announcement with a LinkedIn post stating, “Ben has be...

The U.S. government has been temporarily shut down, and one of the consequences of this is that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has not published its monthly employment, non-farm payroll and other reports for September. During this pause in fund...

Glasgow, U.K.-based skills intelligence and gig-work marketplace Gigged.AI has added agentic AI to its recently launched Skills Intelligence Agent (SIA).
The SIA is a conversational agent designed to interact with HR teams, management and employees, ...

Julius Probst (above) has been promoted to the position of senior economist at Appcast Inc, a subsidiary of the Stepstone Group. He had been European labor market economist at the company since May 2023.
Probst announced his promotion in a LinkedIn p...