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The Black Hole of Hiring: Study Reveals 50% of Job Seekers Receive Automated Rejections Without a Word from Recruiters

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New data reveals 50% of job seekers face silent rejections, while over 80% encounter an AI disclosure void that fuels widespread hiring mistrust. A study from Enhancv, a global leader in AI-powered career tools, exposes a profound trust gap on the receiving end of modern hiring technology. According to a survey of 1,066 U.S. job seekers, automated recruitment tools are leaving candidates in the dark, with 50.5% of applicants receiving at least one job rejection in the past year without a single word of explanation or feedback from a human recruiter. When half of all job seekers are rejected without human contact, and over 80% have no idea if a person or an algorithm read their resume, trust in the hiring system breaks down completely.” — Volen Vulkov, Co-Founder of Enhancv The findings highlight a fundamental disconnect between corporate automation and candidate trust. While employers adopt artificial intelligence tools to handle mounting applicant volumes, job seekers are incre...

LaborIQ® Software Announces Next-Generation Compensation Analytics Solution

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Platform Expands Their HR Tech Software Arsenal, Assisting Organizations with Real-Time Views of Pay Alignment, Retention Risks, and Budget Impacts LaborIQ , announced the launch of  Pay Analysis , an expansion to the company’s compensation solution portfolio, and designed to help organizations with defensible pay strategies and complete pay visibility. Built for HR teams and business leaders, LaborIQ’s Pay Analysis combines internal workforce pay data with LaborIQ’s compensation benchmarks to provide a centralized view of how employees, departments, locations, and their pay, align to market and to organizational compensation strategy. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ The launch reflects growing pressure on organizations to make budget-minded, fair, and more defensible compensation decisions amid ongoing labor market volatility. “Compensation is strategic and has become more complex in recent ye...

Serval Launches Program to Transform Employees Into Future Founders

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Serval Start Challenges Traditional Career Paths and Retention Strategies for Startups Serval , the employee service management company built for the AI era, closed its recruitment for the first cohort of Serval Start. The first-of-its-kind program, built to identify, develop, and back the next generation of artificial intelligence-native founders, secured its first cohort of 12 from over 500 applications. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ As AI uproots what a typical career path looks like, traditional, pre-defined roles are breaking down. Serval Start introduces a new talent model that recruits high-potential technical builders, embeds them within a fast-scaling company, and equips them with the network, capital exposure, and hands-on knowledge to launch their own companies in the future. Rather than treating aspiring founders as a retention risk, Serval is betting that the most sustainable way to attract exception...

ZipRecruiter Appoints Carmen Chan as Chief Financial Officer

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Veteran finance and technology leader brings leadership experience from Barclays, Noom, and Goldman Sachs to ZipRecruiter ZipRecruiter , a leading online employment marketplace, announced the appointment of Carmen Chan as Chief Financial Officer, effective August 17, 2026. Ms. Chan will oversee the company’s Accounting and Finance organizations and help drive ZipRecruiter’s long-term financial strategy, operational excellence, and value creation initiatives. As of the date that Ms. Chan assumes the CFO role, Dave Travers will continue his role as President of ZipRecruiter, but will no longer serve as the interim Chief Financial Officer. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “Carmen is a proven finance leader with deep expertise in technology, capital markets, and investor relations,” said Ian Siegel, CEO of ZipRecruiter. “Her experience helping leading technology companies grow and her strong relationships wi...

We’ve Been Solving The Wrong Problem

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Why financial wellness programs fail, and what financial health actually requires. A while back I was in a Dollar Tree in Beaufort with my ten-year-old son, looking for safety pins. A woman who worked there was outside on her phone when we walked in, upset, talking about CashApp and “not having it right now” and how “even Friday might be a problem.” Inside, she rang us up and was short with me, the way people are when they are carrying something heavy. In the car, my son asked why she was so “mean” to us. I told him the truth. She was not mean. She was doing math in her head. Math about Friday. I think about her a lot. Because here’s the thing: she is somebody’s employee. And there are millions just like her. For years, our answer to that woman has been “financial wellness.” We have spent billions on it. And I have come to believe we picked the wrong word. Worse, the wrong word led us to build the wrong thing. Think about...

Payscale Launches JobNav Recruiter, Connecting Compensation Intelligence to the Hiring Front Lines

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New solution connects recruiter workflows directly to compensation strategy, helping organizations hire faster while improving compliance and pay consistency. Payscale , the leading provider of compensation intelligence solutions, announced the launch of JobNav Recruiter, bringing compensation intelligence directly into recruiter workflows. Every employee’s pay journey begins with a recruiting decision. The new solution helps talent acquisition teams create compliant job postings, publish market-aligned pay ranges, and make hiring decisions that stay connected to enterprise compensation strategy. JobNav Recruiter is the latest addition to the Payscale Intelligence Cloud, extending compensation intelligence to the point where pay decisions first become visible to candidates. Built on technology from Payscale’s acquisition of Datapeople in 2025, the solution works directly from a recruiter’s ATS and expands to integrate with Payscale’s benchmarking solutions, connecting what compensat...

Human Capital Institute Launches Leadership Councils, New Peer Communities for HR Teams

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The Human Capital Institute (HCI) announced Leadership Councils, organizational memberships that bring HR leaders together to share insights and solve critical business challenges. HR leaders are navigating rapid change with limited time to test new solutions. Priorities shift quickly, teams are asked to do more with fewer resources, and emerging challenges often fall outside the scope of established practices. Leadership Councils were designed to close that gap, giving members a structured way to connect with peers, share practical solutions, learn from experts, discuss emerging trends, and benchmark against other organizations. “Peer-to-peer learning has never been more valuable than it is at this moment,” says Rafael Cardoso, President of HCI. “With the pace of change and disruption, the powerful insights you gain from peers who are working in real time, day-to-day, on the same challenges provide access to verified experience and expertise that enables teams to ...