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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.
Swagger Like Us: Why the Future of TA Belongs To Talent Intelligence
Posted on August 12, 2025 4 Comments
When done right, talent intelligence combines the best of internal and external data to help people leaders see what’s coming, conduct scenario analysis, make faster, smarter and more informed decisions, and gives the employers getting it right a distinct competitive advantage before most companies even realize they’re running a race.
You’re Not Talent. You’re Inventory.
Posted on July 22, 2025 5 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.
Snark Attack 