Why is HR allowed to operate the only enterprise process where a 99.5% defect rate is considered normal — and then celebrate AI for making it faster? Now let me prove the shocking claim. First we just pulsed the major media market reviewing published reports for the...
The "Win-Win" Performance-based Hiring Articles, Insights and Podcasts
Directions to the Hidden Talent Market
By automating the labor-intensive aspects of high-touch hiring while preserving its relationship-centered core, AI makes it possible to extend these best practices across the entire talent acquisition function. In today's competitive hiring landscape, two distinct...
Convert Your Overloaded HR Tech Stack into a Strategic Hiring Weapon
Let’s be frank. HR tech stacks look impressive on paper and in the demo, but are a money and resource pit in practice. Companies have all of the tools: ATS, CRM, sourcing platforms, assessments, interview schedulers… but still can’t seem to hire better, faster, or...
Let’s Break Some HR Rules: Using AI and First Principles to Reshape Hiring
First Principles thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves breaking down complex issues into their most basic, foundational elements. Rather than relying on existing assumptions or conventional wisdom, this method encourages questioning every component until the simplest truths are uncovered. When this approach is applied to hiring something unique emerges and it’s not what 95% of companies are doing today.
Developing a Personal SWOT to Ace the Interview
This newsletter has been created for job seekers, recruiters and hiring managers who want to learn how to conduct an objective performance-based interview. This specific article is designed to help candidates prepare for this type of interview which involves having candidates describe major accomplishments most comparable to the performance needs of the job. Here’s the short course for those who want to understand the background underlying this methodology.
Converting Jobs into Careers
Using a single sentence prompt I asked ChatGPT to convert this LinkedIn Learning course on embedding post-hire success into the pre-hire process into a compelling super short story. It follows below. Send us a link to one of your open job descriptions and we’ll show you how to make Amelia’s story yours.






