Sometimes a competitor being acquired is the best thing for a startup. Back in January, popular ATS platform iCIMS bought TextRecruit, a text messaging and live chat communications platform for employers that launched in 2014. “This couldn’t be a better fit,” said Erik…
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Juju Shutting Down Glidepath, Launches Text Messaging Platform Emissary.ai
Juju, a poor man’s Indeed, quietly launched Glidepath in 2016. It was designed to be a recruiting platform for small businesses. Not necessarily a bad idea, but the timing was most definitely bad. Shortly after going to market, Google Hire…
Dice’s Parent Company, DHI Group, Has a New CEO
True to its word back in November 2017, DHI Group, the parent company to well-known tech job board Dice, has a new CEO, replacing outgoing CEO Michael Durney. Announced on April 10, Art Zeile now holds the title of chief executive officer….
Randrr Acquires Anonymous Career-Matching Solution Anthology
Career insights platform randrr announced the acquisition of career-matchmaking site Anthology last week. Anthology is dubbed by some as a mix between Tinder and LinkedIn, anonymously matching employers with already employed but on-the-hunt employees. After filling out a few job-related questions,…
Woah! Scout Just Raised How Much?
It’s not everyday a solutions provider in our space gets $100 million bucks in funding. But it just happened. Earlier this week, John Chuang, the CEO of TRI Ventures, wrote that check to Scout Exchange. The large investment is intended…
Here They Grow Again: Indeed HQ Upgrading to 11-Story Office Tower in Austin
While industry insider chatter around Indeed centers around death and destruction at the hands of Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook, the real-world evidence points to a much rosier future for “the world’s #1 job site.” Case in point, Indeed’s hometown newspaper…
The 10 Most Important People in HR Tech in 2017
I just love end-of-the-year lists. With everyone taking a well-earned break and news releases taking a much appreciated hiatus from my inbox, it’s a good time to reflect on the past, as well as look to the future. For this…
Some Cornerstone OnDemand, Shiftgig Employees Get Lumps of Coal, Pink Slips in Stocking
For most white-collared employees, the holidays are a time of secret Santas, office parties, and budget meetings. For some employees at Cornerstone OnDemand and ShiftGig, however, this year brings stockings full of pink slips and coal instead of fat bonuses…
HiQ Releases Official Statement After Winning Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Against LinkedIn
As reported on Monday, hiQ had a nice little victory in their court battle with LinkedIn. “A federal judge issued a huge setback for LinkedIn on Monday, ruling that LinkedIn can’t block the startup hiQ Labs from accessing public profile data,” wrote…
Engineer’s Anti-Diversity Memo Gets Sharp Rebuke From Google
A political firestorm has erupted at Google over a 10-page memo by a software engineer challenging the company’s diversity efforts, declaring that biology and not society explains why there are so few women in tech and leadership. Posted internally last…
$1 Billion Sale For CareerBuilder Could Be Near
Reuters news is reporting that a Chicago private equity firm is in talks to buy CareerBuilder for more than $1 billion. Citing anonymous sources, Reuters said GTCR, LLC. is in the process of finalizing a deal. The sources cautioned the…
Nearly 500,000 New Jobs Added This Year
Employers continued to add nonfarm jobs at a rapid pace in February, increasing payrolls by 235,000 during the month, blowing past predictions of a more modest increase. Adding to economists’ surprise, the U.S. Labor Department’s monthly employment report also showed…
Expedited H-1B Program Suspension Announced
Friday’s announcement that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will halt its expedited H-1B visa processing is raising concerns that businesses dependent on foreign talent could be impacted. “This suspension is not good for American businesses by any means,” immigration…
Homeland Security: Green Card Holders Will Be Allowed to Return
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday, January 27, 2017, that suspends the admission into the U.S. of people from certain countries for 90 days. This three-month ban applies to citizens of the following countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan,…
Jobs Grow by 156K in December; Wages Take Jump
Ending the year much as it began, employers hired a modest 156,000 new workers in December, bringing the total for 2016 to 2.16 million new jobs. In 2015, employers added 2.74 million. While this morning’s jobs estimate from the Labor…
DOL Sues to Get Google Comp Info
Google is being sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for allegedly failing to turnover documents relating to compensation of employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters. The suit announced today charges that Google provided a September 1, 2015 “compensation snapshot,”…
Unemployment, Hourly Pay Decline In November; Employers Add 178,000 Jobs
U.S. employers added 178,000 new non-farm jobs during November, according to a government employment report that’s only surprise was a sharp decline in the unemployment rate to 4.6 percent. Today’s monthly report from the U.S. Department of Labor showed private-sector…
ADP Report: Employers Added 216,000 More Jobs This Month
Private-sector employers hired nearly 100,000 more workers this month than in October, adding 216,000 more workers, almost all of them in the services sector. HR services and payroll processor ADP and its partner, Moody’s Analytics, reported this morning that consumer-driven…
August Hiring Slows to 151,000 Jobs; SHRM Predicts Slow September
The dog days of August were upon employers last month, slowing their new non-farm hiring to a modest 151,000. At 4.9 percent, unemployment was unchanged from July. This morning’s monthly report from the U.S. Labor Department was lower than the…
New Jobs Up By 287,000 In June
Non-farm jobs jumped by a surprisingly robust 287,000 in June, exceeding all but the most optimistic expectations. It was the second-largest jobs increase in a year and follows a month where new jobs grew by a paltry 11,000, down from…