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Video Interviews Evolve: Zoom’s Strategic Move with BrightHire
Posted on November 18, 2025 Leave a Comment
On the surface, this looks like a clean story: Zoom wants to deepen its hiring workflows, and BrightHire has already built a strong interview-intelligence layer on top of Zoom’s infrastructure.
Under the surface, it’s a survival strategy for a meeting platform that knows the meeting itself has become a commodity.
Buzzwords in Recruiting: A Survival Guide for 2026
Posted on November 11, 2025 1 Comment
Every year, a new batch of noxious “talent transformation” phrases (like “talent transformation”) shows up to make hiring sound like quantum mechanics when it’s really just matching résumés to job descriptions written by people who’ve never done the work they’re hiring for.
AI or Alibi: Judgement Day for Knowledge Workers?
Posted on October 30, 2025 5 Comments
Let’s start with the obvious. Amazon cutting 14,000 jobs barely scratches the surface of its 1.6 million-strong workforce. At face value, that’s not a labor market disaster. It’s a headcount hiccup. Do the math. If one Amazon-sized layoff doesn’t move the macro needle, what would? Try 20.
That’s roughly 280,000 jobs. Sounds like a lot, until you realize that between Salesforce, Microsoft, Google, Dell, and every Series D startup that blew its runway on kombucha fridges, we’re already halfway there.
Unplugged: Insights from a Decade of RecFest
Posted on October 9, 2025 Leave a Comment
There aren’t a ton of events that put the needs of practitioners over the needs of the sponsors first, or who focus more on building a meaningful community that’s more than a mailing list,
Fortunately, though, there’s RecFest, one of the highlights of the overcrowded conference calendar year.
Spin Cycle: How Recessions Reshape Talent Acquisition Strategies
Posted on October 1, 2025 4 Comments
If the last recession taught us anything, it’s that recruiting is the first to get cut and the last to get forgiven. But it also taught us that recruiting is not only resilient, it’s also down times that determine who wins (and loses) top talent when the next upswing occurs.
Snark Attack 