HiringThe AI layoff boomerang: cutting seats, then buying them back
Analyst and staffing data show AI cuts reversing into rehires. Here is how recruiting should stop the expensive boomerang before the next RIF deck.
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HiringOpen jobs, closed matches: why seekers and openings miss each other
Openings and seekers can both be real. The gap is skills, credentials, and geography. Here is how recruiting should rewrite the match before 2032 arrives early.
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Tools38% would delete GenAI. The verification tax is why.
Adaptavist’s survey of 2,500 workers puts numbers on AI regret and the verification tax. Here is how TA should rewrite scorecards and JDs.
MarketAugust 7 jobs print: the Friday morning playbook for TA
BLS drops July jobs data Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here is the TA decision tree for soft, hot, and in-line prints after June’s 57,000 miss.
Market95% of AI productivity talk is still “coming.” Stop hiring against it.
Fed research puts about 95% of AI productivity talk in the future tense while aggregate productivity barely moved. Here is how recruiting should brief finance.
HiringWhy the hiring market feels broken: applicant volume
Volume is the shared enemy. Recruiters cannot read 800 applications. Candidates cannot get a reply from 80. Here is the volume trap and the exits.
HiringHow recruiters find candidates
Postings collect applicants. Sourcing finds people. Here is how recruiters use LinkedIn, resume databases, referrals, internal systems, Boolean, and networks.
TalentWhy great candidates get rejected
A no is often about the seat, the moment, or the room. Here are six reasons great candidates still lose, and how to read each one.