Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
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»
The global market for professional development (training, certification, and upskilling) is over $400 billion, and almost a third of this is focused on topics and technologies that aren’t company specific. During the last three decades, much of this demand has been fulfilled by training providers: online course libraries, video libraries, simulations, expert assessments, and many ... Read more»
Talent Acquisition is perhaps the most important but also complex part of business. In this podcast I explain the intricate details of this $750 billion market, which is now being transformed by AI.
As you’ll hear, recruitment is far more nuanced than you may think, so “experts” in HR can do some pretty amazing ... Read more»
Tristram Gray, Chief People and Corporate Affairs Officer at Kmart Group in Australia, explains how the retail giant is revolutionizing high-volume hiring with AI. Managing 55,000 employees across 450 stores, Kmart recruits 12,000 people annually while processing hundreds of thousands of applications.
Tristram shares how the company uses Sapia.ai to create a mobile-first, simulation-based ... Read more»
I just completed nearly 60,000 miles of travel across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East meeting with hundred of companies to discuss their AI strategies. While every company’s maturity is different, one thing is clear: AI as a business tool has arrived: it’s real and the use-cases are growing.
A new survey by Wharton shows ... Read more»
AI vendors build infrastructure, companies are shedding jobs, and we’re starting to witness the most rapid business transformation in centuries. In this podcast I look back on 2025 and show you where we are – with AI transformations, the job market, and the massive organizational changes in business. And I explain the Rise of the ... Read more»
This is mindblowing. Today the BBC and EBU (European Broadcasting Union) published a detailed study which shows that around 45% of AI news queries to ChatGPT, MS Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity produce errors.
In other words, the “dangerously self-confident” AI systems we use are quite poor at giving us good analysis of news. While the ... Read more»
Preview of my big HR Tech keynote!
This week I give you in-depth perspectives on the massive AI tech bubble, the massive revolution in talent acquisition systems, and what to expect from M&A in the future.
We’re in a whole new world of HR Technology and vendors are scrambling to buy, build, or ... Read more»
We’ve now spent years debating the use of AI for human decision-making: who to hire, who to promote, how much to pay someone, and hundreds of other things. Leaders are faced with complex, difficult decisions every day: can we trust AI to make them for us?
I’d suggest the answer is no, and that’s the ... Read more»
After many dozens of conversations with companies and AI vendors about AI transforming work, I’m left with one burning question. If we actually succeed in automating all our work tasks, data analysis, coding, and content generation, are these systems truly able to replace humans?
I”m left with a very simple answer: NO. And the reason ... Read more»
This week the White House issued a dynamic, pro-business AI Action Plan focused on “winning the race” for AI supremacy. As I discuss in today’s podcast, this 28 page document details the Government’s comprehensive policies to support infrastructure-building, energy production, and investments in AI across government, the military, commercial businesses, and our own careers.... Read more»
Yesterday the White House released The American AI Action Plan, a 28-page policy document which covers many of the most important national (and global issues) we face in the new world of AI.
As I briefly discuss today, there are many fantastic policy positions in here (a few odd ones, but they’ll be worked ... Read more»
I’m continuously surprised by the hyperbolic articles and comments about AI ruining the job market, the web, or our lives. Yuval Noah Harari believes this is an existential change to humanity. Mark Benioff claims that 30-50% of Salesforce ops is now done by AI. And media sites like The Verge (Nilay Patel) worry that all ... Read more»
This week we launched the culmination of three years of research into the leadership and HR strategies of the world’s leading “Superworker Companies,” the highest performers in their industries.
More than three years ago we started the GWI (Global Workforce Intelligence) project. Using data intelligence from Eightfold, we examined the skills, ... 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»
