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AI or Alibi: Judgement Day for Knowledge Workers?
Posted on October 30, 2025 5 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 4 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.
Analytics Anonymous: The 7 Steps to Talent Intelligence Transformation
Posted on September 25, 2025 3 Comments
Let’s talk about the real reason your hiring strategy isn’t working.
It’s because you have no idea what’s actually happening in your funnel, and worse, you’ve built an entire process on data you don’t even trust (or in many cases, even capture). That’s where talent intelligence comes in.
Man Versus Machine: The Truth About AI In Interviewing
Posted on September 24, 2025 2 Comments
Welcome to hiring in the age of the algorithm, where we’ve replaced gut instinct and basic decency with webcam recordings, acoustic patterning, and chatbots who “just want to get to know you better.”
Which is only kind of creepy. But does it lead to better hires?
When Dinosaurs Ruled: Why the OpenAI Jobs Platform Could Be An HR Tech Extinction Event
Posted on September 5, 2025 5 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.
Snark Attack 