Industry segment of the Workforce Solutions Ecosystem, defined as technology based businesses related to attracting, sourcing, recruiting, and hiring (or placing) employees and non-employed workers within an organization. This includes elements of employment branding, candidate attraction, networking, and relationship building with potential candidate communities to continually build and enhance the talent pool for an organization. Talent Acquisition Technology is a broad category which includes Job Boards for advertising vacancies online, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) for processing new hires, Vendor Management Systems (VMS) for managing staffing suppliers and an emerging category of online services operating within the ‘Human Cloud’.