VONQ

Are clicks still the right measure of recruitment performance? When budgets are under pressure, every hiring decision needs to deliver measurable value. In this clip from the DJAx Awards Spotlight, VONQ CEO Ritu Mohanka explains why the conversation is shifting from paying for activity to investing in outcomes, and how AI-driven, performance-based recruitment is helping organisations focus on interview-ready applicants instead of clicks. 🎥 Watch the spotlight to hear more about the thinking behind our award-winning approach to job advertising. - https://lnkd.in/eb5mhvdU

Most ATS partnership discussions start with the wrong question: “How many features can we offer?” The questions platform leaders are actually asking are much harder: ➡️ How much engineering effort will the integration require? ➡️ Who retains control of the customer relationship? ➡️ What happens when a job board changes its API or pricing? ➡️ How is AI compliance managed? And where is the commercial value for the ATS? In her latest blog, our CEO, Ritu Mohanka, looks beyond the feature list to explain why answering these questions has made embedded infrastructure a strategic product decision. As Ritu puts it: “The next generation of ATS platforms won’t win by having the longest feature list. They’ll win by deciding early what to build, what to embed, and where a partner already carries years of scale, compliance, and failure-mode learning that would take just as long to rebuild in-house.” ✅ That is exactly where VONQ HAPI comes in: giving ATS platforms the embedded infrastructure to expand faster without building every capability from scratch. Ready to learn more? Read the full blog 👉https://lnkd.in/gwhtrJFw #HRTech #ATS #VONQ #EQO #HAPI #EmbeddedCapabilities #HiringAPI #VONQHAPI #EQOHAPI

Every job that gets posted starts with a job description. And in top-of-funnel hiring, that first step matters more than it often gets credit for. The language, structure, tone, SEO and GEO performance, and inclusivity of a job description - all influence whether right candidates stop, read, and apply. At VONQ, we see this reality every day across hiring teams, markets, and platforms. That’s why EQO® is not just a platform story we talk about, but a workflow we build, test, and show in action. In the first video of our new EQO product demo series, Iulia Wagner, Head of Product Development at VONQ, walks you through EQO Job Description Studio: the starting point of EQO’s six AI-powered stages, creating one continuous flow across the top of the funnel. You’ll see how EQO turns a role brief into a fully branded job description in minutes, with real-time tips and text suggestions to help maximise candidate conversion in 30+ languages, adapted for local culture and regional search behaviour. Watch the first demo video and explore EQO Write: https://lnkd.in/dfjAyfPe #EQO #VONQ #TalentAttraction #AgenticAI #AIHiring #JDStudio #JobDescription #AgenticWorkflow

What if the biggest reason AI pilots fail… isn’t the AI? Too many organisations spend months asking, “Does the technology work?” By the time they’ve proved it does, they’ve overlooked the questions that actually determine success: ❓Can our organisation adapt? ❓Do recruiters trust the new workflow? ❓Have we changed our processes, metrics and incentives? ❓What happens when a recruiter disagrees with the AI? The organisations that successfully scale AI treat it as infrastructure, not just an experiment. They bring recruiters into the process early, define success beyond speed, and build confidence alongside efficiency. In this clip, VONQ CEO Ritu Mohanka explains why, in her experience, AI pilots don’t usually fail because of the technology, they fail because nothing around the technology changes. 🎥 For more insights into Agentic AI in Talent Acquisition, watch the full webinar here - https://lnkd.in/ebANs7fN

"If you can't explain it, you can't defend it, and you can't improve it." In a recent panel discussion hosted by Employ, VONQ HAPI partner, our CEO Ritu Mohanka shared why explainability has become one of the most important requirements for AI screening. Modern AI can help recruiters assess candidates more consistently and at greater scale, but without transparency, those outcomes are difficult to trust, improve, or defend. That’s why explainability and auditability are becoming just as important as accuracy. 🎥 Want to hear the full discussion? Watch the panel recording here: https://lnkd.in/emHqAhnb #ResponsibleAI #HRTech #AIHiring #VONQ #HAPI #HiringAPI #Employ

The problem with your AI hiring strategy, is not the AI! AI is changing hiring by redefining what great recruiters spend their time doing and the organisations that we see pulling ahead aren't simply just giving their recruiters access to AI tools, they are redesigning hiring around people and AI working together, giving recruiters more time back, and empowering them to invest that time into strategy, judgement and meaningful conversations. In her latest Forbes article, our CEO Ritu Mohanka explores why the biggest barrier to AI success isn't the technology, but having the courage to adapt the hiring process around it. 👉 Read it here - https://lnkd.in/e6kD_2JF

ATS platforms are under more feature pressure than ever, but no roadmap can absorb everything customers now expect. As our CEO, Ritu Mohanka highlights, the ATS ecosystem era is changing the product strategy conversation from “what should we build?” to “what should our platform enable?” That is why the next phase of HR technology will not be defined by who builds the longest feature list. It will be defined by the platforms that know what to build, what to partner on, and how to embed the best product capabilities into the workflows recruiters already use every day. Read the full piece here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eV7zUhRU *This article was originally featured on Job Board Doctor, https://lnkd.in/eBMdbCgK, on July 14, 2026. #HAPI #VONQ #EQO #ATS #HRTech #EmbeddedHiringInfrastructure

Meet EQO® Attract: Turn job content into candidate attention Just posting a job and hoping the right candidates find it doesn't work in a crowded talent market. EQO Attract is the third stage in EQO's agentic AI workflow: Write, Distribute, Attract, Screen, Interview, Score. It takes the job content already created and turns it into campaigns that bring your roles and employer brand in front of candidates where they actually spend their time. ✅ Instantly generates video and image ads. ✅ Optimised for LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok formats and audiences. ✅ Programmatic advertising and CPA+ direct budget to the best-performing channels. Less manual creative work. More relevant ads. Campaigns that actually perform. Explore EQO Attract: https://lnkd.in/earcnJ6u #EQO #TalentAttraction #RecruitmentMarketing #EQOAttract #ProgrammaticAdvertising #AgenticAI #VONQ 

The smartest hiring processes know exactly where automation ends and human judgement begins. Take a look back at a clip recorded live at HR Tech Europe, where Matt Alder from Recruiting Future sat down to interview Jeroen Klerkx (Picnic Technologies) and Bill Fischer (VONQ) to discuss how data, AI, and recruiter expertise work together to create a faster, more consistent hiring process, and highlighting the importance of screening in, not out. Listen to the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/ev6fBBeB

"AI screening shouldn't be designed to reject candidates faster. It should be designed to understand them better." In a recent panel discussion hosted by Employ, a VONQ HAPI partner, our CEO Ritu Mohanka shared the design principle behind VONQ's AI screening: screen in, not screen out. Instead of eliminating candidates based on incomplete information, the goal is to identify gaps, ask relevant follow-up questions, and give candidates the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and experience before a recruiter makes a decision. Because the real question isn't whether AI or humans should pre-screen candidates. It's which approach is more transparent, more consistent, and easier to improve over time. 🎥 Want to hear the full discussion? Watch the panel recording here: https://lnkd.in/eNmstdtj #AIScreening #HRTech #HiringTrends #VONQ #HAPI #HiringAPI #Employ