Dayforce Buys an AI Interview Startup

Speaker A: Welcome to this week in rectech, your weekly pulse on the technology and data driving the world of talent acquisition. I'm your host, Chris Russell. In today's episode, Dayforce Buys an AI interview. Startup and HR tech execs on the move. Let's go. This episode is sponsored of course by our friends at Dalia. Who's ready for a cold hard fact? Indeed's pricing model and all programmatic job advertising is based on driving volume, not outcomes. Job boards get paid on clicks and applies, not hires. Their incentive is to send you more volume. That's what happens with volume based pricing models. All that volume creates exactly what you expect, which is mass inefficiency. Dalia fixes that. Millions of job seekers use Dalia every month to seamlessly connect to employer career sites and apply to jobs using the Universal Canada profile. It's secured, it integrates directly into your ats and it works instantly in any career site. Employers using Dali can double their conversion of career site visitors and into qualified applicants and hires. Double the hires from traffic you already have. So start cutting your dependence on Indeed by going to Dalia co D A L I A CO Kicking off things in the enterprise HCM arena, Daveforce has officially announced plans to acquire Ribbon AI actually interviewed Ribbon at Rec Fest, uh, last month. Now why does this matter? Recruiting teams running high volume hiring have been drowning application noise. Ribbon AI brings sophisticated conversational voice and video AI tech straight to the table. Instead of sitting in an ATS queue waiting days for an email recruiter screen, Ribbon's autonomous conversational agents conduct early screening, early stage screenings and first round interviews at scale. By embedding this directly into the Dayforce ecosystem, Dayforce is packaging a fully autonomous recruitment workflow. It's going to free up talent teams, they say from screening, uh, triage so recruiters can step back into what humans do the best. Uh, keep your eyes on the space. Autonomous screening is rapidly shifting from an add on to kind of a core HCM infrastructure. If you notice here, HCM companies are in a buy versus build mode here when it comes to all this new uh, AI interview and recruiting technology. Next up, let's run through our HR tech uh, tech exec roundup where several uh, talent intelligence and screening vendors are making major leadership moves. First up, Eightfold has appointed HCM veteran Joe Korngible as his new Chief Executive officer. He spent 14 years at Workday including for as CTO and most recently served as chief Strategy, product and Tech officer at Dayforce. Eightfold, uh, co founder, uh, Ashutoshka, uh Garg who led the company for a decade moves to Chairman of the board as he as the enterprise adoption of their agente products at warp speed. Over at Seekout, co founder John Tippett has been named President stepping up from his chief client officer role to run day to day operations alongside CEO Aravin Bala. Uh meanwhile hiring acceleration and screening platform Vetti announced fresh growth capital alongside new executives. Uh Glenn uh Argenbreit joins as CEO and ADI native steps in as president and COO and background screening leader. Accurate named uh Mary uh go again as their new SVP of global marketing to accelerate brand and product alignment tuning to venture capital, Plato has closed a $60 million Series A round led by Nava Ventures with backing from Gradient Transpose Platform and M Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman. Plato's thesis is uh, everyone is talking about deploying AI agents in the workplace to do customer support, finance and people ops. But uh, here's the problem. An AI answering a prompt is not the same as an AI actually executing a job. If an agent touches live production tools without uh, knowing how to navigate trade offs, uh, things break. PLATO builds simulated sandbox workplaces, digital replicas of enterprise environments where AI agents can practice, make mistakes, learn from feedback and be evaluated on real tasks before they touch uh real client systems. It's flight school for software agents they say uh, so check them out. Um, PLATO is the name. Speaking of validating skills, technical assessment company uh Codesignal is uh, going past traditional testing. They launched agentic Skills Intelligence and the headline here is moving from self reported resumes and certifications to measuring capability from live work. Rather than relying on periodic multiple choice tests or static coding challenges, Codesignal connects directly to everyday work environments like GitHub, Salesforce, Google Workspace and even AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT. Their agents analyze actual workplace output against structured industrial organ organizational psychology rubrics. Even better, it says it ties directly into their AI coach Cosmo. If an employee or candidate exhibits a proficiency gap, the system designs targeted practice scenarios to close that gap. In context it's continuous proof based talent intelligence, uh, built right into every uh, everyday workflows. And finally, let's talk about hard tech. Software hasn't automated coding challenges for 15 years, but what about aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing? Evaluating mechanical and electrical engineers has remained stubbornly manual take home CAD designs in person whiteboarding and senior engineers burning up to 40 hours per hire just running technical screens. With nearly 30% of the airspace and defense workforce near retirement, the bottleneck is unsustainable. So says Kolare or Kolare C O L A R E. They just emerged From Stealth with $2.5 million in pre seed funding backed by AFOR Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. Founded by Ether Thomas and former Ford engineer Nain uh, Abdi Kollair, UH delivers simulation based assessments for hardware disciplines, evaluating how engineers handle CAD modeling, thermal analysis, PCB design and real world physical constraints. Candidates make actual trade offs on cost, manufacturability, UH and physics, generating a rich debrief for hiring managers before senior engineers spend hours in interviews. Hands on proof of a resume pedigree is finally hitting the hardware world. From autonomous voice screens at Dayforce to live work skills tracking a code signal and hardware simulations at Colair, the takeaway this week is unmistakable. The resume is losing its grip and verified simulation is taking the driver's seat. That's all for this episode of this week in Rec Tech. Don't forget to hit subscribe. 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