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That's a Wrap: What CXR Learned During The SocialTalent Takeover For the whole month of July, SocialTalent took over CXR, and the community showed up for it. What started with a countdown timer and a "something's coming" teaser turned into a month of learning, honest questions, and the kind of peer-to-peer exchange taht makes the community worth being part of. Here's a look back at what we covered and what stood out. Week One: AI In Recruiting We started at the foundation. Members worked through how generative AI actually functions, what the new "AI manager" role really asks of recruiters, and how to turn one-off prompts into reusable assistants ...

The Best Leadership Conversations Don't Happen on A Conference Stage I've been to a lot of professional meetings in my career. Most of them – even the good ones – are about the speakers, the topics, the agenda, the strategy, the takeaways you scribble down and share with your team. The CXR Leadership Summit Is Different It isn't just another conference, meeting or gathering. It's where relationships are built, perspectives are challenged, and leaders leave better than when they arrived. It's one of the few places where you can stop performing leadership and simply be a leader among peers. ... Leaders leave better than when they arrived. I still ...

On July 23rd, more than thirty TA leaders joined our latest community call on Indeed - this time prompted by an update to Indeed's Terms of Service that took effect July 17th. If you've been following this series, you know the context. In April, Indeed's senior leadership joined us for a direct Q&A, and I gave them real credit for showing up. That credit stands. But this update landed an unfortunate way the community has learned to watch for: framed as routine housekeeping in an email, with the substantive changes living in the fine print. And here's the part worth sitting with - if you've logged into the platform since July 17th, you've already accepted ...

by Bill Boorman DISCLOSURE: The views or comments shared by Bill Boorman within this headline reflect their own experience and opinion. Rollie Jobs believes the biggest problem facing community job boards is not attracting candidates but finding and maintaining enough vacancies. Speaking with Chris Russell on the Job Board Secrets podcast , CEO and co-founder Alex Sejdinaj said the company grew the South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce job board from just 18 vacancies to more than 5,000 in a week by automatically discovering and maintaining jobs from the career sites of member companies. He said the software eliminates the manual work that has ...

Most candidate experience conversations focus on what employers can fix inside their own systems. But some of the biggest gaps in recruiting happen in the spaces between them. Think about the last time you misplaced your keys. If they had an AirTag attached, you probably didn't panic. You opened FindMy, saw exactly where they were, and went to get them. Now think about the last great candidate who visited your career site, explored a role, didn't apply, and disappeared. No signal. No visibility. Just...gone. That's still the reality of recruiting. Employers spend a lot of time and money attracting talent, improving career sites, shortening applications, ...

A quick frame before the recap, because this is running on our public site and not everyone reading it is inside the panel. CXR runs research panels a few times a year. Small group, closed forum, four to five weeks of structured async discussion on one topic, then a closing call. This one is on candidate fraud in hiring. Roughly two dozen TA leaders and heads of talent in the room, plus a handful of identity and verification specialists to keep us honest on the tech side. The four weeks map out as Landscape, Detection, The AI Complication, and What Needs to Change. We just closed Week 1. Co-facilitating with me on this panel is CXR member, @Alex Murphy , ...

We've all known this for a long time: the way our profession closes the loop with applicants is broken. Not "needs improvement." Broken. It's the single most common candidate complaint in every candidate experience study anyone has run for the last fifteen years. And yet, when you ask most of us why we haven't fixed it, the answer usually involves application volume, system limitations, or something a vendor told us wasn't technically possible. That answer is no longer good enough. This week, the CXR Foundation published version 2.0 of the Baseline Standard for Applicant Closure . It's a working document, developed by the Foundation's Industry Standards Committee, ...

What Stuck With Me From Three Days in Louisville A few weeks out from Marketplace Live, and I'm still thinking about the room. We spent three days in Louisville with a group of talent acquisition leaders who came ready to work - not to be sold to, not to nod along, but to put real problems on the table and pressure-test them with people carrying the same weight. The agenda pointed at candidate fraud, candidate engagement, and talent attraction. But underneath all of it was one signal our team couldn't miss: the work is getting more complex, the stakes are higher, and the practitioners solving it together are moving faster than anyone solving it alone. I ...

If there’s one word that defines 2026 so far, it’s uncertainty. AI continues to reshape how organizations operate. Labor markets remain difficult to predict. Return-to-office mandates are evolving. Mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, and geopolitical shifts continue to create new variables for business leaders to navigate. And we're only in the second quarter. For many organizations, the challenge isn't simply managing change. It's maintaining clarity while change is happening. Few teams feel this pressure more directly than Talent Acquisition. Why Talent Acquisition Feels It First Talent Acquisition sits at the intersection of ...