Stop Blaming Zoom: Your Interview Questions Are the Real Problem
AI Summary: In-person interviews alone do not prevent AI-assisted cheating; the real problem is static test design with one...
Category: Recruitment
When the Interview Becomes the Spectacle
Weekly Roundup · 2026-07-27 to 2026-07-31 A marketing agency offered instant interviews to anyone willing to tattoo its logo...
An Instant Interview for a Tattoo Isn’t Bold, It’s a Red Flag
Some companies ask candidates for a portfolio. LemonLime asked for skin. At an afterparty during Y Combinator’s Startup School...
Andy Burnham Is Right About Bad Interviews and Wrong About the Camera
AI Summary: Formulaic interview answers stem from poor question design and untrained interviewers, not from video format—the problem travels...
Mercor Killed the Take-Home Test. It Didn’t Solve Interviewing.
Osvald Nitski didn’t mince words on the 20VC podcast, according to The Times of India. Mercor’s head of product...
Tech’s Layoff Wave Is a Hiring Problem Wearing an AI Costume
Three years ago, Microsoft paid $75bn for Activision Blizzard, betting on gaming as a growth engine. This month it...
Mobley v. Workday Is a Warning About Opaque AI, Not AI Itself
Workday has been ordered to turn over a list of every company that uses its AI-powered hiring tools. That...
The Week AI Hiring Fractured Into Four Different Problems
Weekly Roundup · 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-24 Four household names announced layoffs this week and pointed to AI as the...
Four Companies, Four ‘AI Layoffs’: Why TA Leaders Can’t Take the Headline at Face Value
Cloudflare spent part of this year publicly championing expanded internship hiring and arguing that AI should augment workers, not...
AI Doesn’t Just Inherit Hiring Bias, It Invents New Ones
Picture a fictional city where a mayor hires a recruiting consultant to fill twenty jobs, from doctors to janitors,...
Victoria’s AI Hiring Pledge Is a Preview, Not an Outlier
“We cannot allow discrimination to sneak back into the workplace via AI.” That is Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, announcing...
When Retention Slips, TA Doesn’t Get a Warning. It Gets a Backlog
Eagle Hill Consulting’s latest Employee Retention Index carries an irony that undercuts the usual explanation for turnover: satisfaction with...
When the Algorithm Becomes the Alibi
Weekly Roundup · 2026-07-13 to 2026-07-17 Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing the company, claiming its AI-driven layoff tools...
The AI-Native Myth: Why Tool Use Isn’t Job-Readiness
HCLTech’s answer to India’s AI talent shortage is the Forward Deployed Engineer, a role built around sitting with the...
Supercharging Career Site Conversions: What is a Universal Candidate Profile?
For years, Talent Acquisition (TA) leaders have grappled with the exact same headache: making quality hires at scale, within...
Cara Joins Microsoft Teams: Structured Interviews Without Switching Apps
AI Summary: Integrate Cara in Microsoft Teams to keep interview plans, questions, and scoring rubrics all in one pane...
Top 12 Interview Intelligence Platforms for 2026 (And Beyond)
AI Summary: Prioritize interview intelligence platforms that evaluate and coach interviewers, not candidates, to drive consistent, high-quality hiring decisions....
Interviewing 101: Best Practice Interview Techniques
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