Articles

Writing on Programmatic Recruitment Advertising

Case studies, analysis, and playbooks from the team rebuilding the category. Short reads for people who buy recruitment media.

Explainer6 min read

What Is A Performance Hiring Platform?

Recruitment advertising software measured on hires rather than delivery: what it does end to end, the data behind it, and how it differs from an ATS or job distribution tool.

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Data6 min read

Where Our Data Comes From — And How We Know The People Are Real

The full data chain behind a TalentXi campaign: your job data, how audiences are built from it, verified inventory through DSPs, and how fraud is filtered before the bid.

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Explainer5 min read

What Is Programmatic Recruitment?

The term covers two very different things: automated distribution across job boards, and true real-time bidding across the open web. How to tell them apart.

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Buyer's Guide6 min read

Programmatic Job Advertising Software: Buyer's Guide

The five questions that actually separate vendors, how pricing is structured, and the warning signs to listen for in a demo.

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Explainer5 min read

What Is Invalid Traffic In Recruitment Advertising?

Where invalid traffic comes from in job advertising, why job postings are a soft target, and why filtering before the bid beats disputing the invoice.

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Measurement5 min read

Cost Per Applicant Vs Cost Per Qualified Applicant

One of these metrics improves whenever you buy cheaper traffic. The other predicts your cost per hire.

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Explainer5 min read

Job Boards Vs Programmatic Job Advertising

Boards sell space to people already searching. Programmatic buys open-web impressions to reach people who are not. How the two models differ on reach, pricing and reporting.

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Analysis5 min read

How Your Job Ads Affect 90-Day Turnover

Early attrition is usually investigated as an onboarding failure. A large part of it is decided at the media layer, before anyone applies.

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Playbook5 min read

Q4 Hiring Surge: A Recruitment Advertising Plan

Seasonal hiring peaks in the same weeks consumer brands spend their annual maximum. How to sequence media so you are not buying at the top.

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Playbook6 min read

How To Plan A Recruitment Advertising Budget

Build the number backwards from the hiring plan and your own conversion rates, instead of carrying last year's inefficiency forward.

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Analysis7 min read

Programmatic Is Now Accessible Without A Recruitment Marketing Agency

Real-time bidding stayed out of reach for recruiting because of agency fees, spend minimums, and the need for a media trader. Here is what replaced all three.

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Playbook8 min read

How TalentXi Eliminates Candidate Fraud in Hiring

Candidate fraud — bot applicants, AI-generated resumes, fake interviews — can't be solved with another ATS layer. See how TalentXi's programmatic model stops it at the source.

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Video6 min watch

The Pre-Passive Candidate: Reaching People Before They Search

CEO Jason Gorham on why the best hires never touch a job board — and how programmatic media reaches them before they start looking.

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Case Study5 min read

Healthcare Hiring Platform Cuts Cost per Applicant 69% in 60 Days

How retargeting warm candidates instead of chasing new ones collapsed acquisition cost and lifted quality of applicants.

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Analysis7 min read

Pay-per-Click Is Not Programmatic

Why the recruitment industry has misused the word 'programmatic' for a decade, and what real real-time bidding actually looks like when you buy across DSPs.

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Explainer4 min read

What a DSP Actually Does — In Plain English

Demand-side platforms are the engine of real programmatic. Here is how they bid, what inventory they reach, and why it matters for hiring.

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Playbook5 min read

How TalentXi Reduces Recruitment Ad Fraud

Removing the public job posting URL removes the surface bots crawl. Combined with quality-of-applicant optimization, fraud drops structurally.

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Announcement3 min read

The Inventor of Programmatic Job Advertising Is Back to Fix the Fraud It Unleashed

Launch of the TalentXi platform and its first published customer case study.

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