Are you up on who’s who and what’s what in the TA solutions business?
Take this 10-question quiz to find out. It covers many of the major developments among job boards and talent technology companies in 2024 and so far in 2025. The answers appear here.
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1. January, 2025: Which OpenAI competitor was reported to be in talks to raise an additional $2B, increasing its valuation to $60B?
Anthropic
Cohere
DeepMind
Inflection AI
Stability AI
2. September, 2024: Which investment company merged Monster with CareerBuilder?
Apollo Management
Quantum Work Advisory
Sequoia Capital
Tiger Global Management
TrueBridge Capital
3. November, 2024: Which job search engine bought the social recruitment platform Seiza?
Adzuna
CareerBuilder
GetWork
Indeed
ZipRecruiter
4. October, 2024: Which AI company received a cease-and-desist letter from The New York Times regarding the scraping of its content without permission?
Character.ai
Leonardo.ai
Mistral AI
OpenAI
Perplexity.ai
5. May, 2024: According to a LinkedIn survey, what percentage of employers said that job boards were their most effective hiring channel?
23%
37%
60%
71%
80%
6. August, 2024: Which employer review platform did ZipRecruiter acquire?
AmbitionBox
Blind for Business
Breakroom
Comparably
Glassdoor
7. March, 2024: Workday announced that it would be acquiring which talent intelligence platform?
Datapeople
HiredScore
HireVue
SeekOut
SmartRecruiters
8. July, 2024: Which governmental entity introduced an AI regulation with fines based on the risk to humans?
Australia
State of Colorado
European Union
State of Massachusetts
United Kingdom
9. April, 2024: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed an amicus brief in a job seeker AI bias lawsuit against which TA solution provider?
BambooHR
Cornerstone OnDemand
Peoplesoft
SAP SuccessFactors
Workday
10. June, 2024: Which applicant tracking system raised $30M for further development and expansion?
Ashby
Greenhouse
HiringThing
iCIMS
Teamtailor
BONUS
January, 2025: Which AI product is freaking out software engineers and developers who are now worried about losing their jobs to the technology?
Amazon Q
Gemini 2.0
Hatz AI
Google Vertex AI
Open AI o3
