recruiting 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.
Beyond the Frankenstack: How to Choose the Right AI Partner for Hiring
Posted on September 3, 2025 1 Comment
Buying AI isn’t like buying normal software. Traditional HR tech is (relatively) straightforward. You look at features. You test workflows. You pilot the product. You can usually see what the thing does, how it does it, and whether it integrates with your other systems. AI? Not so much.
Why Your Recruitment Advertising Sucks.
Posted on August 27, 2025 4 Comments
If you’re in recruiting you’ve probably been told that your job ads need to be “programmatic,” that “employer branding” is your silver bullet, and that dumping more budget into LinkedIn or Indeed will solve your pipeline problems.
Here’s the thing: it won’t. That’s because recruitment advertising is still so two-thousand-and-late.
Workday Buys Paradox: An Inevitable Acquisition That’s Long Overdue
Posted on August 22, 2025 2 Comments
Let’s not pretend the acquisition of Paradox by Workday was just another “vision-aligned” synergy play. This wasn’t Workday adding bells and whistles. This was Workday plugging glaring holes in its talent stack, the kind you can’t close with roadmap updates or incremental UI tweaks. Let’s connect the dogs.
Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roadmaps.
Posted on August 15, 2025 2 Comments
Among the legacy vendors making the shift from applicant tracking to artificial intelligence is iCIMS, a technology that CHROs tend to love and recruiters tend to tolerate. It’s the Goldilocks of the ATS ecosystem: not too hot, but not too cold, either – much like their AI capabilities.
Snark Attack 