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Transforming Recruitment Marketing: From Data to Insights
Posted on November 26, 2025 1 Comment
The article critiques traditional recruitment marketing practices that rely on spreadsheets, arguing they fail to provide meaningful insights. It highlights inefficiencies in recruitment strategies and emphasizes the need for data-driven approaches using advanced analytics. A webinar is promoted to guide professionals on leveraging AI for effective recruitment marketing metrics and improving hiring outcomes.
Still Crazy After All These Metrics: The Myth of Quality of Hire
Posted on November 20, 2025 Leave a Comment
Just like there’s no accounting for taste, there’s no baseline for “quality.” It’s like the concept of relative value; quality, as an abstract theory, operates at the intersection of subconscious biases and budget availability.
Ask ten TA leaders what quality of hire means and you’ll get twelve answers.
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.
AI or Alibi: Judgement Day for Knowledge Workers?
Posted on October 30, 2025 2 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.
Spin Cycle: How Recessions Reshape Talent Acquisition Strategies
Posted on October 1, 2025 3 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 