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Buzzwords in Recruiting: A Survival Guide for 2026
Posted on November 11, 2025 Leave a 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.
When Dinosaurs Ruled: Why the OpenAI Jobs Platform Could Be An HR Tech Extinction Event
Posted on September 5, 2025 4 Comments
In a poetic bit of corporate cannibalism, OpenAI announced this week that it’s building an “AI-powered hiring platform.”
This will be a full-stack hiring marketplace built directly into the OpenAI ecosystem.
It’s called the OpenAI Jobs Platform. And it’s coming for LinkedIn’s lunch, dinner, and market share.
LinkedIn Hiring Assistant: Clippy Makes A Comeback
Posted on September 4, 2025 4 Comments
LinkedIn’s Hiring Assistant, which just expanded its availability globally after a year in pilot, is being framed as a milestone in recruiting automation. In practice, it’s more like Clippy got a makeover, learned how to parse job descriptions, and started sending templated InMails.
It’s just as obnoxious as it sounds.
Why Your Recruitment Advertising Sucks.
Posted on August 27, 2025 4 Comments
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.
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.
Snark Attack 