OpEd Category
LinkedIn Hiring Assistant: Clippy Makes A Comeback
Posted on September 4, 2025 4 Comments
LinkedIn’s Hiring Assistant, which just expanded its availability globally after a year in pilot, is being framed as a milestone in recruiting automation. In practice, it’s more like Clippy got a makeover, learned how to parse job descriptions, and started sending templated InMails.
It’s just as obnoxious as it sounds.
Employer of Record: Solution or Shell Game?
Posted on August 6, 2025 Leave a Comment
Today, global hiring isn’t just for Fortune 500s. It’s for every seed-stage startup that needs to prove they can build a distributed team without knowing the first thing about, say, employment law in Poland.
Enter the new EOR platforms: sleek, SaaS-y, VC-funded, full of promise and able to sell services at a software multiple.
Incompetency Framework: The Truth About Skills Based Hiring
Posted on July 30, 2025 2 Comments
Skills-based hiring, for all its promise, is fundamentally flawed. Not just flawed in practice, but flawed in premise, too.
Skills, as currently defined and implemented in most HR systems and hiring processes, are too subjective, too fluid, and too dependent on context to serve as a stable foundation for hiring.
The State of HR Industry Analysts 2025
Posted on July 25, 2025 7 Comments
The future of work is not just about people. It’s not just about skills. It’s not even about AI. It’s about staying ahead of the narrative. Because in a world of endless transformation, one thing stays constant:
There will always be another trend. And there will always be another analyst to monetize the hell out of it.
You’re Not Talent. You’re Inventory.
Posted on July 22, 2025 5 Comments
Talent acquisition, at least writ large, is no longer about building relationships, “getting to know candidates,” or even about people, really. It’s about pipelines. Workflows. Throughput. Velocity. Optimization. You know the buzzwords by now. But it’s the sentiment behind them that necessitates a shift in how we think about how we hire.
Snark Attack 