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by Bill Boorman ZipRecruiter reported revenue of $108 million for Q1 2026, down 2% year on year (y-o-y). Executives said hiring demand remains subdued and employers continue to slow recruitment activity across several sectors despite early signs of labor market stabilization. Adjusted EBITDA reached $9.7 million, with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 9%, while its net loss narrowed to $4.7 million from $12.8 million in the year-earlier quarter, according to the company’s news release . The employment site ended the quarter with roughly $393 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. “We are seeing stabilization in the labor market,” ...

Executive Summary In Q2 2025, salary transparency in U.S. job postings crossed 50% for the first time, a milestone that had been building for years as state-level pay transparency legislation gathered pace. What followed was rapid normalization: by January 2026, the national disclosure rate reached 55.3%, an all-time high. Since then, the rate has plateaued, holding at 54.2% through Q1 2026, suggesting the market may be settling into a new normal rather than continuing its sharp upward climb. For employers, this trajectory is not just a data point; it reflects a permanent shift in candidate behavior, a tightening compliance landscape, and a widening competitive ...

I spent two days this week in conversations that genuinely shifted my thinking and at this point in my career, that doesn’t happen as often as I’d like. It started with watching Jason Roberts and Andrew Gadomski on JobSync. Andrew framed candidate fraud in a way I hadn’t encountered before, and I’ve been sitting with it since. He used three distinct categories - Misinformation, Disinformation, and Mal-Information - as the scaffolding for the problem. I won’t do justice to his full argument here, but the distinction matters more than most of us have been willing to admit. Misinformation is inaccurate but not necessarily intentional. Disinformation is deliberate. ...

Welcome Home! We are so glad you are here. Whether you just joined, are still figuring out how to navigate the CXR community, or are wondering how to make the most of your membership; this post is for YOU . I know getting started in a new community can feel overwhelming. And that is putting it lightly. You might be asking yourself: Where do I even begin? How does this all work? What resources are available to me? I’ve heard those questions, and I’ve been working hard to make sure new members have clear, easy to find answers. I am so excited to introduce three new resources built specifically to help new members feel confident and comfortable ...

Over the past few months, we've heard from a number of CXR members who've recently taken on contingent workforce as part of their TA remit. Enough that we thought it was worth getting those leaders together to compare notes. A dozen leaders showed up to that first call and the conversation made clear this is definitely a topic worth some Community exploration. There is something unique about the specific experience of coming to this work from a TA background, inside organizations where the ownership is shifting, and wanting a space for the kind of candid, real-time peer exchange that CXR is built around. What came up in the conversation The organizations ...

by Mark Feffer DISCLOSURE: The views or comments shared by Mark Feffer within this headline reflect their own experience and opinion. While job boards continue to deliver the most applicant volume to staffing agencies, new data from hiring and retention software provider CareerPlug , suggests that volume is becoming less important to hiring outcomes, which could lead firms to rethink where they invest in sourcing, StaffingHub reports. The data , drawn from more than 60,000 small and mid-sized businesses in the U.S., revealed that job boards generated 61% of applications but accounted for just 42% of hires in 2024. This shows an elevated ...

On April 2nd, we had Maggie Hulce, Indeed's Chief Revenue Officer, and John Fox, VP of Product and Partnerships, on a community call with more than 100 TA leaders, practitioners, and solutions providers. There have been a lot of questions in this community over the past few months as Indeed has rolled out product and policy changes and not all of them have had clean answers. Maggie and John came in to change that. No slides, no spin - just a room full of practitioners with real questions and a genuine attempt to answer them. I'll take that kind of engagement every time. Here's what was covered. Disposition Sync: Required by whom, exactly? This has been ...

A few months ago, we started holding community calls to help TA leaders make sense of what was happening with Indeed. Not to editorialize. Not to prescribe answers. Just to create a space where people doing the same job, inside similar organizations, could compare notes and figure out what was actually true versus what was rumor, assumption, or inconsistent guidance from their account teams. And it did exactly what a strong community is supposed to do. Hundreds of TA leaders showed up. They shared what they were hearing, what they were doing, and what they still didn't understand. The calls became a genuine, practical, peer-driven resource at exactly the ...

Not long ago, SEO was simple: write a page targeting a keyword, wait for clicks, celebrate when traffic went up. But now, AI is reshaping SEO strategy — and fast. When AI encounters your content, whether it’s a careers page, a blog post, or a short employee video, it doesn’t just read it. It interrogates it. In microseconds, it’s silently asking: “Is this a clear and direct answer, or is it buried in marketing fluff?” “Does this content help me answer not just the original question — but related ones too?” “Can I trust the person saying this? Are they real?” “Is this structured in a way I can easily quote or summarize?” With Google’s ...