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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.
Unpacking the Myth of Ethical AI in HR Tech
Posted on July 18, 2025 3 Comments
Let’s get one thing out of the way: the term “ethical AI” is about as meaningful as “video interviewing intelligence” or “programmatic recruitment advertising.” It sounds good. It tests well. It makes people feel better about decisions they already regret. But under the hood? It’s just spin. There’s no universally accepted definition of “ethics” — […]
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.
Blind As A Bat: Oracle, Catz and the Heavyside Lawyer
Posted on February 19, 2020 6 Comments
Oracle has sued Google; Supreme Court accepts case which will set precedent on API ownership, fair use doctrine.
Um Yea: Not Another 2018 HR Tech Trends Post.
Posted on January 16, 2018 12 Comments
Here’s a good way to kick off a new year: for the first time in like, a decade, I’m actually not dreading writing one of those annual preview posts. See, if you’re in the recruitment content marketing business (a pretty shit nice, TBH), every year, you’ve got to put out a mandatory forecast into the […]
Snark Attack 