Weekly roundup

This week in sourcing tools

What changed in sourcing and recruiting software each week, in five minutes: launches, acquisitions, integrations and pricing moves across the vendors in our directory, with a one-line view on why it matters. Published weekly; each edition is dated and kept as a permanent record.

This week in sourcing tools: LinkedIn Hiring Assistant 2 auto upgrades, a jobs and hiring group forms at the Agentic AI Foundation, and buyers keep building their own

A quiet product week with two signals worth acting on: LinkedIn confirmed that Hiring Assistant 2 rolls out automatically to existing Hiring Assistant customers in mid November, and Recruitics' CTO will lead a new Jobs and Hiring group inside the Linux Foundation hosted Agentic AI Foundation. Remote's survey of 3,250 business and HR leaders adds a reminder that most companies now build some of their own automation.

  • LinkedIn: Hiring Assistant 2 rolls out automatically to existing Hiring Assistant customers in mid November
  • Recruitics / Agentic AI Foundation: Recruitics CTO Austin Anderson will lead a Jobs and Hiring special interest group at the Agentic AI Foundation
  • Remote: Remote survey: 91% of organizations built internal tools or automations instead of buying software in the past year

This week in sourcing tools: Juicebox buys Fetcher, LinkedIn Hiring Assistant lands in iCIMS, Metaview deepens Workday

Consolidation week: the AI-search player Juicebox agreed to acquire Fetcher's assets, LinkedIn's Hiring Assistant pushed into the iCIMS ATS, Metaview went deeper into Workday, Workday launched candidate profiles and HR agents, and Eightfold changed CEO.

  • Juicebox / Fetcher: Juicebox announced an agreement to acquire Fetcher's assets
  • LinkedIn / iCIMS: iCIMS integrated LinkedIn Hiring Assistant into its ATS
  • Metaview / Workday: Metaview expanded its Workday integration for Fortune 500 recruiting teams
  • Workday: Workday launched Candidate Profile and a set of HR, finance and IT agents
  • Eightfold: Eightfold AI named Joe Korngiebel as CEO
  • Noon: Noon published public MCP docs, a weekly changelog and switch-from guides