August 2025 Recap: AI updates, career tips, and smarter hiring for employers

🔧 For tech professionals

✨ Tech news highlights

🚀OpenAI releases GPT-5: OpenAI launched GPT-5, calling it their most advanced model yet. It improves reasoning, reduces hallucinations, and outperforms previous models across coding, math, writing, and analysis tasks. Developers get a smarter, more reliable coding partner, with stronger debugging and large-context handling.

🧑💻 Copilot Chat goes GA: Copilot Chat features like instant previews, flexible editing, issue management, and model selection became generally available on GitHub. It lets you pick between models such as GPT-5, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, or Gemini Flash 2.0 directly in GitHub, tailoring AI assistance to your coding tasks.

💡 Visual Studio 2022 (v17.14) update: The August 2025 update brought GPT-5 support to Copilot in Visual Studio, introduced "Bring Your Own Model" for Copilot Chat, and made the Model Context Protocol (MCP) generally available. It allows you to connect external tools and data sources to your coding assistant, making Copilot more personalised and powerful inside Visual Studio.

💼 Finding the right role shouldn’t be this hard

Job hunting can feel endless: keyword filters, vague ads, and constant messages about irrelevant roles. That’s where hackajob flips the script. Employers have been using hackajob to hire for over 2500 new roles in August across the US, UK, and India, spanning software development, data, AI, cloud, security, and more.

Here’s how we make it simpler:

• Get matched to roles that fit your preferences (salary, location, stack, company size, industry) and your skills.
• Accept or decline interview requests based on what actually interests you.
• Stay private: your current employer never sees your profile.
• One profile gets you in front of hundreds of employers with suitable roles.

👉 Create your free profile today and start getting the right opportunities without the noise.

🛠️ Level up: backend and frontend interview prep

Interviewing for backend or frontend roles in 2025? Our dedicated guides help you prepare with confidence.

Backend Developer Interview Guide: Covers APIs, distributed systems, databases, and architecture. Learn what to expect at every stage and how to showcase your problem-solving skills with practical examples.

👉 Backend Developer Interview Guide

Frontend Developer Interview Guide: From accessibility and performance to async JavaScript and system design, this guide maps what hiring managers test across seniority levels. Get practical tips and example questions to sharpen your prep.

👉 Frontend Developer Interview Guide

🎙️ New on The DevLab Podcast + blog

DevLab Podcast: Jen shares her journey from Tudor history to software engineering at BAE Systems, covering career transitions, overcoming imposter syndrome, and integrating AI into engineering workflows.

▶️ Watch on YouTube

Prefer reading? Get the full story in our blog.

🧠 AI term of the month: Model Context Protocol (MCP)

MCP lets your AI coding assistant connect to real tools like docs, APIs, and databases instead of working in isolation. The Visual Studio update made MCP generally available, so Copilot can now give context-aware suggestions based on your actual codebase and workflows.

🚀 Spotlight: why devs choose scale-ups

Big companies bring stability, reach, and mature systems. But scale-ups offer something different:

• More ownership and visibility.
• Faster growth and direct impact.
• The chance to shape products from the ground up.

At hackajob, you don’t have to choose sides. Whether you’re curious about scale-ups or big employers, we match you with roles that fit your career goals.

👉 Read our blog on a day in the life at a scale-up vs big tech

🏢 For tech employers

⚡ Tech hiring made easy

Hiring is noisy, and keyword searches don’t cut it. That’s why we built hackajob intelligence: The AI that powers our platform.

• Natural language understanding of your brief.
• Contextual skills matching beyond keywords.
• Recruiter-level intuition on behaviours and achievements.
• Full transparency so you stay in control.

It’s smarter hiring without the noise, helping you save time and connect with people who actually fit the role. Try it now for free.

🤩 Product updates

Exciting updates for employers using hackajob to hire.

🔎 Company Insights: No more tab-swapping. Click a company logo to get instant insights: size, industry, funding, and more. Company Insights gives you context at a glance, so you can make better-informed decisions faster.

🤝 Bulk actions from the match list: Save time by shortlisting, inviting to interview, dismissing, or downloading multiple candidates, all in one go. Spend less time reviewing profiles and more time connecting with the right talent, faster.

🌟 Something big is coming

Calling all hiring teams 🔉

Imagine hiring without the admin overload — no endless sourcing, no irrelevant applications. Just more time to focus on what you do best: hiring great talent.

Well, something big is on the horizon.

Stay tuned to see what we’ve been working on behind the scenes 👀

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