AI Might Address Recruiting Bias, but HR Pros Aren’t Leveraging It that Way Just Yet
Artificial intelligence holds promise for reducing hiring bias, yet adoption remains minimal. A December HR Brew survey of nearly 400 professionals found only 7% use AI to identify and address bias, while 78% do not employ such tools. Executives like Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait and Amazon’s Shabrina Davis stress both the risk of amplifying bias and the opportunity to eliminate it through well‑governed models. The gap highlights a sizable opportunity for HR teams to integrate bias‑mitigating AI into recruiting processes.
Greenhouse Report: More Applications, Fewer Recruiters
Greenhouse’s 2026 Benchmark Report shows a hiring market reshaped by AI, with a 411% jump in annual applications since 2022. At the same time, recruiting teams have contracted by 55%, yet hires per recruiter have risen 122% between 2022 and...
I Tested Every AI Apply Tool so You Don't Have to (Here's What Happened)
The author audited a range of AI‑driven job‑application services and found they fall short of delivering rapid hires. Most platforms limit users to roughly 250 applications per month, while modern remote roles attract 300‑800 candidates and yield only about a...
Employee Experience #5: First Impressions Go Mobile
In 2026, onboarding must start before day one and be mobile‑first, letting new hires complete paperwork and receive welcome materials on their phones. Personalized messages from managers, a proactive buddy system, and paced learning replace the old information dump. AI...
How L&D and Training Teams Localize Video at Scale in 2026: A Practical Playbook for Multilingual Internal Content
Learning and Development teams can now localize internal training videos at scale using AI dubbing, slashing costs from roughly $163,000 and 14 weeks to about $5,500 and a few days. European firms such as Liebscher & Bracht and New Com Academy reported up to...
Introducing the State of Hiring Automation 2026: The Gap Is Larger than You Think
Aptitude Research and Phenom released the State of Hiring Automation 2026, analyzing over 200 enterprise hiring experiences and survey data from more than 300 organizations. The report finds that while attraction and engagement tools have lifted firms to about 62 %...
How to Rebuild Your Career Framework as a CHRO with Claude
Vidyard CHRO Sarika Lamont demonstrated how Claude, an Anthropic generative‑AI model, can rebuild an entire career framework in real time. She shared her custom instructions, prompt library, and a side‑by‑side skill comparison that shows the AI’s output versus a manual approach....
AI’s Taking A Bigger And Bigger Bite Out Of Payrolls
The latest Challenger update shows AI is reshaping tech payrolls, driving a surge in layoffs. In April 2026, tech firms announced over 33,000 cuts, representing 40% of all layoff announcements and pushing year‑to‑date tech cuts toward 85,000, the highest since...
AI, Authenticity, and the New Talent Reality: Vizzy on Re-Humanizing Hiring
Vizzy, the UK‑based hiring platform, won the UNLEASH Startup Award and has since added an AI‑driven tool to help enterprise clients such as Tiffany & Co., Virgin Group and Louis Vuitton manage massive applicant volumes. CEO Chris Woodward‑Jones says the...
Think the Technical Interview Is Dead? Think Again
Technical interviews are undergoing a rapid transformation as AI reshapes how candidates are evaluated. While algorithmic LeetCode‑style questions remain common at FAANG firms, their weighting is decreasing and many companies are experimenting with AI‑assisted coding stages. Startups are leading the...
AI Hiring Bias Could Derail The Future Of Work For Women
AI-driven hiring tools risk perpetuating gender bias because they learn from historical data that underrepresents women’s leadership experience. Women hold only about 5% of CEO roles, and career interruptions often skew the proxies AI relies on, such as past titles....
AI Access Is No Longer the Advantage, Work Design Is, According to Microsoft ‘S 2026 Work Trends Index
Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trends Index, built on trillions of Microsoft 365 signals, 100,000 Copilot conversations and a survey of 200,000 workers, finds AI access is no longer a competitive edge. While 58% of employees say AI improves work quality and 49%...
Voice Is the New Interface. Greenhouse Just Made Its Move, Acquires Ezra AI Labs
Greenhouse announced the acquisition of Ezra AI Labs just weeks after Ezra closed a $3.2 million seed round. Ezra builds structured voice‑interview technology that tackles candidate trust, compliance, and usability gaps that plagued earlier AI interview tools. The deal reflects a...
Pearson CHRO Ali Bebo: Do Not Treat Learning as Something Separate From Work
Pearson’s chief human‑resources officer Ali Bebo says AI should augment, not replace, workers. The company’s DEEP framework—Diagnose, Embed, Evaluate, Prioritize—maps tasks to skills, embeds learning directly into daily workflows, and measures real‑time usage. A flagship example is the AI‑powered Communication...
AWS Moves Further Into Enterprise Applications with Quick, Connect Talent, Connect Decisions and Connect Health
AWS’s recent "What’s next with AWS" event unveiled a suite of AI‑driven enterprise tools, beginning with Amazon Quick, a copilot‑style platform that self‑optimizes models while enforcing corporate guardrails. The Connect family was rebranded and expanded to include Connect Decisions for...
Florida Monetized Test Scores
The Curve Weekly highlights four major shifts shaping K‑12 markets. Florida enacted HB 1279 and SB 1296, converting advanced‑course assessment results into teacher payroll incentives and tightening union‑dues rules. Houston ISD introduced a $500 per‑student academic‑need subsidy while centralizing budget control, signaling...
UKG Makes AI a Cost Lever as Southwest and Nike Reset the Economics of Workforce Investment
UKG announced a restructuring that eliminates about 950 roles, roughly 5% of its workforce, and attributes the cuts to AI‑driven productivity gains, positioning L&D efficiency as a CFO metric ahead of Q2 budgeting. Southwest Airlines reported a 4.6% operating margin,...
The Severance Problem: ICIMS and the Identity Crisis Every Legacy ATS Is About to Face
iCIMS used its AI Executive Summit to showcase a rebranded, AI‑first platform called Coalesce AI and a new integration framework aimed at modernizing its legacy applicant tracking system. The company highlighted a "crawl, walk, run" roadmap, but most of its...
Startup Profile: Meld
Meld is an AI‑powered career development platform designed for the next generation of women leaders. Positioned in the Future of Work and HR‑Tech space, it combines personalized skill assessments, mentorship matching, and salary benchmarking to accelerate professional growth. The startup...
Your AI CV Just Got You Rejected
A federal court in California authorized a collective‑action notice allowing anyone over 40 who applied through Workday’s AI hiring platform since September 2020 to join a class‑action lawsuit. The case, Mobley v. Workday, alleges that the AI system systematically down‑weights older,...
How to Improve the Candidate Experience During AI Video Interviews
AI video interviews promise up to 50% faster hires and 40% lower costs, yet many candidates feel anxious, confused, and disengaged. The article argues that the technology alone isn’t enough; the candidate experience determines whether efficiency gains translate into better...
Workday's $2B+ AI Shopping Spree: What It Means for HR Tech Buyers
Workday has spent more than $2 billion acquiring six AI‑focused HR startups—HiredScore, Evisort, Paradox, Flowise, Sana and Pipedream—within two years, mirroring similar moves by SAP and Oracle. The acquisitions aim to plug gaps in Workday’s recruiting, learning and employee‑experience suites, but...
The Death of Employee Loyalty: How AI Rewrote the Workplace Contract
The rise of AI is reshaping the employee‑employer contract. Companies now use AI to cut headcount and redefine high performance, while workers leverage AI to accelerate learning and build side income, eroding traditional loyalty. The article proposes a new contract...
Live Event: How a Real CHRO Uses Claude in HR
On May 7, Vidyard CHRO Sarika Lamont will host a private Insider live session demonstrating how she leverages Anthropic’s Claude AI across her HR function. The walkthrough will cover career frameworks, performance‑review calibration, manager coaching, and board‑level communication, highlighting prompt design,...
Workday Bets on Recognition Retaining Employees in an AI-Driven Market
Workday announced a partnership with Achievers to power a new employee‑recognition product, replacing traditional cash bonuses with a points‑based rewards system. The platform lets staff earn points for peer‑recognition and redeem them for travel, merchandise, or experiences. Workday’s SVP of...
American Airlines Flight Attendants Are Now Raising Serious Concerns Over New Performance Tracking Measures… A New Dispute in the Making
American Airlines introduced a new performance‑tracking platform called “Me@Work,” which assigns each flight attendant an aggregate score based on metrics such as customer satisfaction, attendance, and safety reports. The rollout occurred without meaningful input from the Association of Professional Flight...
Responsible AI Governance Starts With Ownership
The article asserts that responsibility for workplace AI systems rests with the organization that deploys them, not the vendors. It highlights the need for cross‑functional ownership—HR, legal, compliance, security, and business leaders must be involved before any AI goes live....
Move Fast and Track Employees
Meta announced its Model Capability Initiative, a program that will install tracking software on U.S. employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and screenshots. The data is intended to train AI agents that can perform routine knowledge‑work tasks, and...
AI Now Sits on Both Sides of Hiring, Global Survey Finds
A new HireVue global survey shows AI now powers most stages of hiring, with 77% of HR teams using it regularly and 71% of candidates leveraging AI to craft resumes. While adoption has doubled and 85% of HR departments plan...
Four Mindset Shifts Every Sourcer Needs in the Age of AI
The article outlines four mindset shifts that sourcers must adopt as AI reshapes recruiting. First, they should start with broad candidate pools in tools like Clay and filter later, rather than building tight Boolean strings. Second, AI engines such as...
Aon Identifies Gap Between AI Ambition and Workforce Investment in Human Capital Trends Study
Aon’s inaugural Human Capital Trends Study reveals a widening gap between AI ambition and workforce investment. While 88% of employers anticipate new skill requirements and 73% have deployed or piloted AI, only 18% report that most of their staff have...
8 Applicant Tracking System Courses to Master ATS Proficiency
The article reviews eight top Applicant Tracking System (ATS) courses, ranging from broad HR certifications like the HRCI PHR prep to platform‑specific trainings for Greenhouse, Zoho Recruit, and iCIMS, as well as platform‑agnostic options such as Elevify and beginner‑focused programs...
Amazon Launches AI-Led ‘Connect Talent’ To Automate Interviews, Speed Mass Hiring
Amazon unveiled Connect Talent, an AI‑driven platform that automates interview scheduling, conducts 24/7 virtual interviews and drafts recruiter notes, aiming to accelerate the hiring of seasonal workers. The service embodies Amazon’s new "humorphism" design philosophy, which seeks to make AI...
Ludi Announces Ludi Boost™: New AI-Powered Operating Model & Strategic Services Offering for Provider Workforce Management
Ludi, Inc. unveiled Ludi Boost™, an AI‑enabled compensation platform that bundles advanced technology with a strategic services team of more than 80 experts. The solution consolidates compensation data, governance and administration into a single system of record, promising faster program execution,...
What Do Most Recruiting Leaders Miss when Hiring High Volume?
In a recent interview, Adam Godson—former Paradox CEO now leading talent products at Workday—argues that most companies overcomplicate frontline hiring. He urges firms to strip applications down to three questions: can the candidate work, will they show up, and can...
Why AI Resume Screeners Are Creating Blind Spots in Technical Hiring
AI‑driven resume screeners, built on white‑collar hiring data, are systematically filtering out qualified supply‑chain and manufacturing talent. A Harvard Business School study found 88% of employers admit their automated tools reject good candidates, excluding roughly 27 million U.S. workers. The algorithms...
Future-Proofing Global Compliance Policies
Compliance leaders must abandon static, document‑first policies and adopt a data‑first, living compliance system that embeds rules directly into the tools employees use. Rapid AI adoption and a patchwork of U.S., EU and state privacy and AI regulations have made...
6 Words the Greatest Leaders NEVER Use
The post identifies six words and phrases—“just,” “always/never/everyone,” “sorry,” “does that make sense?,” “I don’t mind,” and “hopefully”—that undermine leadership credibility and team engagement. It explains how each term subtly signals doubt, absolution, or lack of authority, and offers concrete...
Visier Outsmart Event: Community, Talent Decisions, and Workforce AI
Visier’s Outsmart event highlighted a shift in HR technology toward AI‑powered decision‑making rather than mere efficiency gains. Speakers emphasized moving from static insights to actionable recommendations embedded in continuous decision loops. The conference also warned of a “SaaS‑pocalypse,” where evolving...
How to Optimize Your Career Site for the AI Ecosystem
Candidates now rely on large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to locate jobs, forcing employers to rethink SEO for career sites. James Ellis advises companies to treat their career domain as a distinct entity, provide auditable claims, and...
‘Digital Me’ Is Turning Human Capability Into Corporate Assets. HR Must Push Back
The article warns that the emerging "Digital Me"—AI‑driven replicas of an employee’s knowledge, judgment and decision‑making—is turning individual capability into a reusable corporate asset. As these digital twins can generate value long after a worker leaves, traditional contracts that treat...
20,000 Workers. 30 Years. 2.3 Million Stones. .
Last week the Manpower CEO and leadership team visited Egypt to pilot AI agents across their staffing and recruiting operations. The experience of standing before the pyramids sparked a lesson: massive projects succeed through orchestrated work systems, not isolated tools....
Purpose, Experimentation and Second-Order Thinking: HR’s AI Blueprint for Redesigning Work
Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor, warned HR leaders at UNLEASH America 2026 that AI is a general‑purpose technology demanding a purpose‑driven redesign of work, not just a productivity tool. He urged experimentation, risk‑taking, and second‑order thinking to anticipate long‑term impacts....
Five Ideas for Leading with AI From Gloria Steinem's Living Room
A recent "talking circle" held in Gloria Steinem’s living room gathered top women leaders to distill five practical ideas for leading with AI. The discussion emphasized mapping employee AI readiness, creating safe peer‑learning environments, confronting workflow discomfort, protecting time for AI...
Let’s Talk About How We Talk About AI
Howard Pyle, founder of XF, introduced a personal AI toolkit at HR Brew’s Talent 2030 event, aiming to move AI training from technical instruction to self‑knowledge. The tool asks users to articulate values and current AI use, then translates those...
Your Employees Have AI Brain Fry & It’s Affecting Your Business: BCG on Fixing the Problem
Boston Consulting Group’s new study of 1,500 U.S. employees finds that 14% suffer from "AI brain fry," a form of mental fatigue caused by excessive interaction with AI tools. Affected workers show 33% higher decision fatigue, 11% more minor errors...
Delete Every LinkedIn Skill Today. Start at Zero.
The post urges senior executives to delete all existing LinkedIn skills and rebuild the section with 100 hard‑keyword entries. It explains that recruiters rely on the Skills field for Boolean searches, and most executives leave 88 slots empty or fill...
AI Requires Recruitment Teams to Rethink Skills and Their Value in the Hiring Process
AI is reshaping talent acquisition by moving hiring away from static résumé keywords toward dynamic skill assessments. CodeSignal’s CEO Tigran Sloyan argues that AI can reverse‑engineer roles from actual work tasks, creating a three‑tier skill model of essential, foundational and...
The Workforce Learning Platform That Doesn’t Exist Yet
The workforce learning market is rapidly consolidating as vendors acquire complementary tools and rebrand them as unified platforms. However, most of these platform narratives describe future architectures; actual technical integration typically takes 18‑24 months. L&D leaders who purchase now may...
The Biggest Announcement of My Life
After five months of development, the founder announced Custard, a professional‑grade AI platform designed to transform managers into high‑impact leaders. The tool gathers anonymous weekly pulse surveys in under 30 seconds, then delivers personalized dashboards with actionable recommendations drawn from...