recruiting Category
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.
Swagger Like Us: Why the Future of TA Belongs To Talent Intelligence
Posted on August 12, 2025 4 Comments
When done right, talent intelligence combines the best of internal and external data to help people leaders see what’s coming, conduct scenario analysis, make faster, smarter and more informed decisions, and gives the employers getting it right a distinct competitive advantage before most companies even realize they’re running a race.
Incompetency Framework: The Truth About Skills Based Hiring
Posted on July 30, 2025 3 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.
HR Tech Isn’t Dead—You’re Just Building It Wrong
Posted on July 23, 2025 2 Comments
For Ashby to close a $50M round in mid-2025 speaks volumes. The market may be freezing over, but Ashby is clearly the exception—and potentially the prototype for what a next generation of emerging TA tech companies should look like as they attempt to succeed at scale.
Pay Transparency and The Illusion of Equality
Posted on July 17, 2025 Leave a Comment
When it comes to pay transparency, we’ve confused openness with oversharing, and no one seems to know what problem we’re actually trying to solve anymore. Spoiler alert: it’s not salary.
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