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HR Tech Isn’t Dead—You’re Just Building It Wrong
Posted on July 23, 2025 2 Comments
For Ashby to close a $50M round in mid-2025 speaks volumes. The market may be freezing over, but Ashby is clearly the exception—and potentially the prototype for what a next generation of emerging TA tech companies should look like as they attempt to succeed at scale.
Blind As A Bat: Oracle, Catz and the Heavyside Lawyer
Posted on February 19, 2020 6 Comments
Oracle has sued Google; Supreme Court accepts case which will set precedent on API ownership, fair use doctrine.
The G Spot: Google Gets Into the HR Tech Game, Because Why Not?
Posted on July 24, 2017 4 Comments
For a function long consigned to being something of a technological backwater, the very thought that the most ubiquitous, transformative and, arguably, the most innovative company in the history of technology has thrown its hat in the recruiting ring is, well, unbelievable. So, if today’s official launch of Google Hire, the Mountain View based behemoth’s […]
Things Done Changed: The Everyday Struggle of Applicant Tracking Systems.
Posted on July 14, 2015 5 Comments
“And now the shit’s getting crazier and major; Kids younger than me, they got the SkyBrand pagers; Going Out of Town, Blowing Up; 6 Months Later, All the Dead Bodies Showing Up.” -The Notorious B.I.G. There is no single piece of technology that’s more universally despised throughout recruiting’s rank and file than applicant tracking systems. […]
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