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Beyond the Frankenstack: How to Choose the Right AI Partner for Hiring

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.

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Why Your Recruitment Advertising Sucks.

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.

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Workday Buys Paradox: An Inevitable Acquisition That’s Long Overdue

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.

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The Devil You Know: Do We Really Need HR Technology?

Larry Ellison (artist's rendition)

When you strip away the marketing jargon and compliance theater, what you’re left with is a bloated tech stack full of point solutions designed to solve problems the rest of the business already solved.

Call it what it is: HR tech isn’t lagging behind; it’s running in the wrong race.

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Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roadmaps.

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.

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