AI, gender and the problem with judging candidates on polish
A polished application can feel reassuring when you’ve got a long list to review. Someone has explained their experience...
Category: Social Talent
Who gets the training? Look beyond performance rankings
Imagine you’ve got one funded training place and two reasonable claims on it. One colleague is delivering excellent results...
Employer branding on a budget: make participation easier
Asking employees to record a video sounds like an inexpensive content plan. But you’ve also asked them to find...
Internal mobility needs a better deal for managers
Calling it internal sourcing made sense to Thom Staight. Recruiters could help employees find jobs inside Microsoft rather than...
The Evidence Trail Is What Makes an AI Hiring Decision Defensible
An AI screening tool can turn 800 applications into a shortlist of 12 within the hour. The trouble arrives...
Resume Screening Was Never Built to Be a Trust Boundary
AI Summary: AI-assisted resume screening tools that take instructions from candidate documents are not truly evaluating—they are running manipulable...
Washington’s AI Interview Pilot Will Test the Machine, Not the Decision
The US federal government is about to hand hiring managers something new: a transcript of a job interview they...
Structured Interviews Are Not The Safeguard You Think They Are
AI Summary: Communication cues and delivery style predict first impressions far more strongly than resume content or GPA, creating...
The Week Hiring Relabelled the Problem Instead of Fixing It
AI Summary: Skills-based hiring adoption is only surface-level change without structured, evidence-based interviews backing it up—relabeling a CV screen...
Skills-Based Hiring Is Only as Good as the Evidence Behind It
Dr. Naresh Kumar Puritipati, President-HR at Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corporation, is expanding the company’s manufacturing footprint and building...
A Hiring Freeze’s Hidden Cost Is the Interviewer Who Went Rusty
AI Summary: Hiring freezes halt headcount but leave interviewer skills to atrophy silently—when hiring resumes, evaluators without recent practice...
Confident Storytellers Win Interviews. Evidence Should.
AI Summary: AI has made polished presentation cheap to produce, so confident storytelling alone is no longer reliable evidence...
Do the EU’s New AI Hiring Rules Ask More Than Good Interviewing Already Owed?
AI Summary: EU high-risk AI rules (effective August 2, 2026) mandate human oversight in all recruitment AI decisions, including...
If Nobody Can Say Who Rejected a Candidate, TA Owns That Risk
AI Summary: Accountability for algorithmic rejections defaults to talent acquisition even when decisions are distributed across vendor systems, recruiter...
The Interview Is Now the Only Gate That Matters, and Most Teams Run It Like It Is Not
Weekly Roundup · 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-28 Equifax published fraud data this week showing a spike in application-stage deception. The...
When Hiring Decisions Cannot Be Explained, They Become Liabilities
Weekly Roundup · 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-21 A candidate walks out of a sixth interview round and the video goes...
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...
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...