Avoid Assuming the Role Is Already Yours
The worst is when they talk like the job is yours. “This is where you will be sitting...”Don’t do that.
Scale Without Losing Humanity: Automate Admin, Prioritize People
Scaling doesn't mean "corporate coldness." Factorial automates admin so you keep your people first. Stay human as you grow. 🤝 #HRTech #Factorial #CompanyCulture #HR #PeopleFirst Schedule a meeting with me: https://info.quaintbusiness. https://t.co/wosnC9rWCT
Trump Names James Murphy NLRB
As long expected, President Trump has named NLRB member James Murphy as the labor board's chairman, the agency just announced. In statement, Murphy says he looks forward to working with colleagues "to protect and advance the rights of American workers."
Zohran Mamdani Captured 84% of Young Graduates
You probably know that Zohran Mamdani won over a lot of young college grads last fall. But do you know exactly what portion? 84%! I have a story up today that tries to explain why. https://t.co/9JbOLH1zIK
Hiring Builders Who Automate, Prototype, and Ship Daily
We only hire builders (and we’re on a hiring spree)! Reply with something you've built. I'll read them personally. We’re interviewing the best ones. You’ll be a good fit if you: - work best without permission - default to “how could I automate this” -...
College Grads' Anger Stems From Deep Sense Of Betrayal
I have a story up today about why young college grads are feeling so angry: It’s more than just rising unemployment and the threat of AI. It’s a deep sense of betrayal. 1/ https://t.co/9JbOLH1zIK
Future Work Prioritizes Human‑Centric Design Over AI
The Future of Work Isn’t About AI - It’s About How We Redesign Work Around People https://t.co/Pz1Spyoe3Q https://t.co/ppjRCOLezi
Hiring Gap: Expectations vs Reality of Talent Availability
Question : There are good companies who want good talent and good people who are qualified. But then we hear : “Good help is hard to find” Where do you think the disconnect is?
Emotional Fulfillment Beats Pay in Talent Retention
"Emotional needs, such as feeling valued and supported, mattered more than functional needs like pay, benefits, and hours in retaining and supporting talent." https://t.co/xLzSKDM6Fz < we all crave joy and appreciation in our work
Higher Ed Staff Salaries Still Below Pre‑COVID Levels
"Across all groups, after adjusting for inflation, higher ed employees are still earning less than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic..." https://t.co/DeNRZxnPx7
Leadership Takes Over 9% of FY25 Free Cash
The total 2025 leadership team compensation in FY25 adds up to around >$70 million (relative to roughly $740 million in FCF). They are all VERY handsomely paid ... $FICO
Mentorship Thrives Beyond Formal Programs: Value Casual Guidance
5 lessons about mentorship in Medtech: (1/5) Mentors don’t have to be formal. Casual guidance and advice can be just as valuable as structured programs. Look for insights in everyday interactions.
Diverse Teams Boost Decision Quality and ROI
The ROI of #Inclusion: How diverse teams drive better decisions and outcomes @PeopleMatters2 https://t.co/Ky8Un3u0Z9 #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Questioning Turnover: Why Did the Previous Employee Leave?
Every time someone posts a job on LinkedIn I’m commenting “why did the last person leave”
AI Coaching Democratizes Continuous, Data‑Driven Talent Development
JUST IN: Democratizing access to professional coaching could alter the talent development paradigm, shifting the focus from occasional, high‑cost interventions to continuous, data‑driven support. https://www.pulse.bot/human-potential/news/huckleberry-rolls-out-20permonth-ai-coach-to-democratize-employee-development-bea5b053-5434-4aeb-a827-679e88ecd41c/ SaaS
Monday Dread Costs Companies: Listen, Understand, Transform Culture
The Sunday Scaries Test: Why Your Employees Dread Monday Morning (And What It's Costing You) https://t.co/ev3fVBhSPX We explore blind spots leaders have abt #culture, the three-pillar framework for #employeeunderstanding, and why listening is the foundation of sustainable success https://t.co/KKyJKOKZCr
Apple Offers Huge Bonuses to Retain iPhone Designers
NEW: Apple this week gave its iPhone product design engineers out-of-cycle bonuses worth several hundred thousand dollars, looking to counter OpenAI, Hark and others aggressively poaching its engineers to build AI devices. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/apple-gives-iphone-designers-rare-bonuses-to-fight-openai-poaching
Nelson Hall Review Highlights Aptia’s U.S. Benefits Expansion
Aptia is focused on expanding its U.S. benefits administration business to enhance delivery capacity and support sustained long-term growth. A new #NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes its #BenefitsAdministration offerings and capabilities: https://t.co/skVuwkULyY #HRTech https://t.co/N7xAuZGt23
Open‑office Noise Hurts Analysis and Spikes Software Bugs
The background noise in open offices, in multiple experiments, decreases the ability to do analytical work, increase bugs in software, and decrease the ability to find bugs. Open floor plans are just a bad idea for any solo work. https://t.co/Y2KX5HjIEd
AI Benefits Evolve to Year‑Round Support with Guardrails
Contributor Spotlight: LaJoi McClendon — AI-powered benefits moving beyond enrollment to year-round support, with the right guardrails. Read LaJoi's take on p. 26 of our eBook. https://t.co/x6mbQ6zZKz #AI #Talent https://t.co/udEnGmVMon
Network Authentically: Ask Black Peers About Their Experience
If you're a Black person you should look to network with other Black people. If you reach out to Black professionals at companies you're targeting, skip the pitch. Lead with something real. Ask how their experience has been as a...
United Flight Attendants Secure $100‑plus Hourly Wage After 5.5‑year Freeze
United Flight Attendants Reach Deal — Top Pay Would Exceed $100 An Hour After 5.5 Years Without A Raise - View from the Wing https://t.co/kKjjYrMT4u
AI Is Redefining Hiring: Hire Engineers Already Obsessed
A candidate used AI to ace the coding test. The team couldn't tell the difference. This is the new hiring reality for SaaS founders 👇 On this week's SaasRise Mastermind, we broke down the biggest challenges SaaS CEOs are facing...
Use the PDP Test to Boost Team Performance
I call this the “PDP test”. Purpose, direction, and progress. One’smce you answer these for yourself, it’s good practice brings question to your whole team to pinpoint areas in need of improvement. if you want to read my full article on this...
AI‑Driven Benefits Platform Raises $30M to Transform HR
Origin Secures $30 Million Series A+ to Scale AI‑Powered Global Benefits Platform Origin’s financing highlights a growing consensus that AI can unlock efficiency in traditionally manual HR functions. By centralising disparate benefits data, the platform not only cuts costs but also...
Job Postings Come After, Not Before, Your Search
The Job Posting Is Often the Last Step — Not the First. https://t.co/8r2IEt8qUW #JobSearch #JobHunt #JobHunting #Career #Careers https://t.co/UaVR5YgZHq
HR Must Evolve Amid Accelerating Workforce Intensification
Workforce Transformation in the Age of Intensification @degreed https://t.co/cVaVY7zhCS #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Stretch Opportunities Often Mask Unfair Workload Overload
You're in your weekly 1:1. You're already stretched thin covering for the senior manager who abruptly quit last month. Your director slides their entire remaining project portfolio onto your plate and calls it a "stretch opportunity." Director: "I need you to...
Organizations Bear Responsibility for Hiring Unqualified Leaders
“When managers/executives get the leadership thing terribly wrong, the organization that put them in the role without ensuring their bandwidth and proficiency is as much at fault as the managers themselves—if not more so.” 🔗 https://t.co/gNw3MlEKqF #leadership #management #HR https://t.co/spRiN27VqG
Women Now Less Eager for Promotion than Men
"For the first time, women are less interested in being promoted than men, according to the Women in the Workplace December 2025 report"
Lack of Internship Guidance Widens Poverty Pay Gap
A lot of this comes down to poorer kids just not knowing what to do. I didn't know that I had to apply for an internship in the WINTER of my sophomore year to get a sophomore summer internship to...
Recruiters Decide Fast: What Truly Matters
Recruiters Decide Quickly. Here's What They're Actually Looking At. https://t.co/bVc5EoyVio #JobSearch #JobHunt #JobHunting #Career #Careers https://t.co/y04c1bYNLw
AI Transformation Accelerating Faster than Most Expect
It was a privilege sitting down with @servicenow's Chief People & AI Enablement Officer, Jacqui Canney, at Transform Monday. She shared real examples of what AI transformation and enablement look like at scale. My biggest takeaway from this and other...
AI “Efficiency” Excuses Mask Minimal Real Job Cuts
Callum Borchers, WSJ: "'It’s a wonderful way of looking like a genius when job cuts are something you might have to do for other operational reasons,” Peter Bell says. “It’s great smoke cover if you just need to goose your...
Boston FP&A Managers Wanted for Top Tech CFO Projects
🚨 Attention Boston network Mostly Talent is working on retained searches for BOSTON based FP&A Managers / Senior Managers These are roles where you get to collaborate directly with top tech CFOs and shape the direction of the org. Passively...
Ageism Resurges: Boomers Face Growing Online Vilification
I've been saying for years we will see a rise in ageism and I think it's finally started. Just read the comments.
Just 28% Say It’s a Good Time to Job Hunt
Gallup: Only 28% of US employees now say it is a good time to find a quality job. @soberlook https://t.co/EGLX7QmA3x https://t.co/u0BrFnPngN
Transparency Spectrum: From Secretive CEOs to Open‑Book Cultures
Someone in Hampton (1000+ founders) asked people if they share revenue and P&L with employees. Here's what they said: Founder A (bootstrapped, ~20 employees): "I share nothing. Not even with my COO. I've never been happier running a company." Founder B (also anti-transparency):...
Skills without Work Experience Are Meaningless to Recruiters
"If it's not in your work experience, it didn't happen." For example, let's say you list Python in your skills and summary. But nowhere in your work experience. Did you use it professionally or take a course? 1 year or 5? Recruiters aren't...
Federal Employee Satisfaction Halves, Signaling Systemic Collapse
Federal worker job satisfaction: 69% → 33% in one year. Willingness to recommend their workplace: 67% → 35%. "What we're seeing here is not a wobble or a rough patch or growing pains. It's a collapse." https://t.co/e0xnvkrd6c
Unlock High-Paying Jobs with the Briefcase Technique
This is The Briefcase Technique You can use it to land jobs far out of your normal reach. You can use it to land clients and charge 10x more. Thousands of my readers have used it to negotiate $$$ in salary...
Five Interviews Later, Role Filled Internally
“Thanks for interviewing 5 times and completing a project based on a real business need but we’re filling the role internally.” https://t.co/usN0WsWX4D
Big Salary, Bigger Cost: Bay Area Reality
300k Comp sounds nice until they tell you that you have to move to the Bay Area.
No Salary Pushback? Beware a Toxic Workplace
A Red Flag in an interview that's a bit hard to spot. If the company barely offers any pushback on your salary requests that should be a gigantic red flag and sign they're toxic. Especially if there's a LARGE gap...
Beast Industries Appoints Former Hulu, Riot Exec as Communications Chief
MrBeast’s Beast Industries Hires Hulu and Riot Games Alum Gaude Lydia Paez as Communications Chief https://t.co/MJLvnqJXMw via @variety
Dry Promotions Are Corporate Myths, Not Real Opportunities
The biggest lie corporate tells you about: 'The Dry Promotion'. They frame a new title without a pay raise as a massive opportunity. THE BLACK BOX REALITY:
Fragmented Recruiting Data Wastes Time, Demands Unified Workflow
We didn’t decide to build Collected because we wanted to launch another piece of recruiting software. We built it because we kept seeing the same operational problem show up in different forms. It came up working with our recruiting agency...
StartUp Health Seeks Head of Sponsorships & Partnerships
StartUp Health is hiring head of sponsorships / partnership sales... learn more and apply here: https://t.co/ffuKR75mgX
Politics, Not Performance, Drives Promotions Under “Culture Fit”
When management promotes based on office politics instead of leadership capability.... They usually justify it as 'rewarding culture fit'... THE REALITY:
Leaders Overlook How Employee Experience Drives Customer Experience
Why Leaders Miss the Link Between Employee Experience and Customer Experience - CX Journey™ https://t.co/13fzqkzjA7 #employeeexperience #customerexperience https://t.co/vcKtgd4B0h