Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
Sourcing and Recruiting covers a wide range of business and HR practices to attract, identify, hire, and onboard people. (Talent Acquisition.) It includes topics like employment brand, job advertising, sourcing strategies, internal mobility, pre-hire assessment, interviewing strategies, job offer and background checking, pre-boarding, and onboarding.
Today Eightfold introduced its AI powered Candidate Agent, which fits together with its AI Interview agent. Not only is this an important announcement for Eightfold as it goes after the red-hot high volume hiring market, it’s emblematic of the whole new Multi-Agent AI solutions coming in the world of HR 2030. (I explain ... Read more»
The explosive AI market is changing everything, and even Handshake, the leader in university recruiting and early career growth, is taking the bait. Today Handshake acquired Uplimit, one of the pioneers in AI-native corporate learning, with a goal of building a massive AI skills academy and job network for young workers.
I talked ... Read more»
I am getting tired of reading stories about AI eliminating jobs. While AI does eliminate tasks and many routine activities, the real story is quite the opposite: AI makes jobs more interesting, more valuable, and ultimately more rewarding (financially and otherwise).
I don’t say this because I’m an HR and HR technology analyst, but because ... Read more»
All year I’ve been studying the employment data and talking with press about the smallish impact of AI on the job market. Most of the slowdown in US jobs, from my data and conversations, has been driven by cost-cutting and general economic uncertainty, not explicit AI job replacement.
Well going into 2026 the situation is ... Read more»
Today Workday announced the acquisition of Paradox.ai, the pioneer in AI-based conversational recruiting. As I detail in my podcast, this deal could be far more than an addition to Workday’s recruitment offering. It could significantly expand Workday into the front-line worker market, broaden the product portfolio, and deepen Workday’s AI expertise.
Paradox was ... Read more»
All of a sudden, there’s a theme and meme that entry-level jobs are going away. Even Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, recently told Axios that 50% of white collar jobs may go away, leaving us with a 20% unemployment rate. (video interview below)
Okay, let me get my head screwed on straight here, ... Read more»
There has been a lot of debate about whether this multi-billion dollar investment in AI is going to pay off. Well in HR alone, I’m here to report that the answer is YES.
This week Jim Cramer, the most famous Wall Street TV personality and hedge-fund manager, actually brought it out.
In Cramer’s interview ... Read more»
As I discussed in the article Digital Twins, Digital Employees, Agents Everywhere, tech vendors are creating AI-powered Agents as fast as they can. And in HR, where we deal with hundreds of mundane checklist-types of processes, the opportunity for automation is everywhere.
This week, just as Microsoft launched a tools to help companies build ... Read more»
Of all the AI innovations we’ve seen in the workforce, perhaps the most significant is Talent Intelligence. Talent Intelligence, as we define it, is the use of massive amounts of employee and workforce data to understand skills, job fit, performance, leadership potential, career pathways, pay equity, and organizational capability.
As we introduce new ... Read more»
This week we published a disappointing research study, Talent Acquisition at a Crossroads. The study, conducted in partnership with AMS, points out that talent acquisition leaders (this is a senior position) are largely left out of their company’s strategic planning process and many feel they operate as “order takers.”
In today’s world of ... Read more»
Chatbots used to be tinker-toys. You type, try to get help, but usually result in “please call support.” Well all this has changed.
Thanks to advanced NLP (natural language processing) and AI (retrieval-augmented generation) chatbots are entire applications. They can answer complex questions, search databases, and invoke transactions on your behalf.
Pretty soon we’ll be ... Read more»
The labor market has changed before our eyes. Employers and HR teams better watch out.
Over the last five decades baby boomers defined the workforce. Today things could not be more different, and this change impacts all of us.
I was born in the 1950s, growing up in a world where the middle class experienced ... Read more»
In this (long) article, I want to talk about a new concept called Talent density. And as I pondered the concept I think it represents one of the more important topics in management. So I hope you find it as interesting as I do.
First of all, the concept of talent density, pioneered ... Read more»
This week Workday announced intent to acquire HiredScore, a leading provider of AI-based matching tools for recruiting (called “talent orchestration”). While it wasn’t discussed much in the earnings call, this deal is a big positive for Workday and could have many implications for the HR Tech market.
Let me explain. (I have not been ... Read more»
This week LinkedIn announced some massive Gen AI features in its two flagship products: LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Learning. Let me give you an overview.
Let me start with LinkedIn Learning.
As you know, learning is a complex process. Employees want to ask questions, jump around from topic to topic, and get advice on what ... Read more»
