Employers can’t find talent, and talent can’t find jobs. Welcome to the most confusing hiring landscape in recent memory.Imagine posting a job and receiving 300 applications within 24 hours. The recruiter is thrilled — until she opens them. Half don’t meet basic qualifications. A quarter clearly used AI to blast-apply without reading the job description…. Read more »
Recruiters get the blame for slow time-to-hire, but are your hiring managers unknowingly sabotaging your results?By their own admission, hiring managers make plenty of mistakes. As per a 2024 Resume Genius report, 70% of hiring managers admitted blatantly lying to candidates during the recruiting process. Nearly a third of bad hires happen because hiring managers look… Read more »
While everyone assumes Google and Apple have recruiting on easy mode, the reality is far more complex. Both big-name brands and lesser-known employers face hiring challenges that can make or break their growth plans.Brand recognition seems like the ultimate recruiting advantage. When candidates instantly recognize your company name, surely they’ll flock to your job postings,… Read more »
Companies need to hire fast and hire well, but managing a flood of applications in a tight hiring timeline is a constant challenge in the high-volume sector.The modern economy runs on high-volume hiring. Every package delivered to your door, every meal served at a restaurant, every call answered by customer service — they all represent… Read more »
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the recruitment process has brought unprecedented efficiency, allowing employers to sift through vast candidate pools, automate scheduling, and even conduct initial screenings with remarkable speed.However, this technological leap often comes at a cost: a sterile, impersonal candidate experience that leaves job seekers feeling like a data point rather… Read more »
With AI changing the value of human expertise, what new skills and competencies will recruiters need to stay relevant and add value?In 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development made the bold claim that, within 15 years, automation would drastically reshape one-third of all jobs and entirely wipe out another 14%. That prediction covered… Read more »
Despite dire predictions of an AI-driven bloodbath in white-collar employment, research suggests a more nuanced reality where humans and AI will collaborate rather than compete for jobs. Earlier this year, the chief executive of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs issued a dire warning: that AI could soon eradicate half of entry-level, white-collar jobs… Read more »
Engaging Through Storytelling: The New Currency for Talent LeadersThe AI era has arrived and it’s liberating talent professionals from basic processes. Now, the challenge is to communicate the human skills that prove their strategic impact.“We worked with a business leader recently who spoke about all these amazing people initiatives they were working on and the… Read more »
Experts predict the three biggest enterprise hiring trends for 2025, and they’re bound by one common theme.The 2025 enterprise hiring space is shaping up to be one of the most dynamic we’ve seen in a while.After last year’s blue-collar boom, white-collar gloom, and AI fervor, it’s hard to imagine talent acquisition (TA) getting any hotter—but… Read more »
Conflicts of interest are present in all types of business transactions and are bound to happen thanks to the complexity of modern organizations. But where other sectors have strict protocols for managing financial and other relationships, talent acquisition has some catching up to do.Giving a job to your brother-in-law because your spouse asked you to… Read more »