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...
Public safety agencies play a critical role in maintaining trust and transparency within their communities. As demands for transparency and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests continue to grow, agencies face mounting pressure to fulfill public records requests while ensuring compliance with privacy laws. The manual redaction of sensitive information, such as faces, license plates,...
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...
With the dawn of digital advertising came the opportunity to track every interaction, measure each conversion, and quickly adjust strategies to create the most optimal performance. While marketers and brands were seeing an influx of data for their digital advertising campaigns, it became difficult to measure the impact of TV ads. Now, thanks to certain...
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...
Summary: There’s a growing national trend towards mandated stop data collection, highlighted by laws like California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Act (RIPA) and Colorado’s SB-20-217. Law enforcement agencies should consider adding additional, custom questions for data collection, helping them gain better context around stops while boosting operational transparency and accountability. Current data collection methods often...
In the last blog, we dove into the top trends impacting TV and how advertisers can adapt and achieve greater success with their marketing efforts. In this article, we’ll cover TV ad effectiveness, specifically how broadcasters can prove value to metric-hungry advertisers. We will look at the following topics: Why is it important to measure...
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...
TV advertising has always been about understanding the consumer so you can engage them with the most relevant content. However, it’s getting more and more complicated every day as human attention spans grow shorter and the number of content platforms increases. To stay competitive in this noisy media landscape, you need to understand exactly what...
