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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.
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 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.
You’re Not Talent. You’re Inventory.
Posted on July 22, 2025 6 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.
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.
Snark Attack 