July 11, 2026 Stop hiring for the résumé. Start hiring for obsession BY Anushk Mittal Over the past four years, I’ve interviewed thousands of candidates and extended offers to about 40 people. I’m 27 years old and to this day, I have never been on the other side of the job interview. Instead, I’ve started two … Continue reading Stop hiring for the résumé. Start hiring for obsession
June 28, 2026 The new rules of executive hiring BY Tammy Perkins For years, executive hiring rewarded visibility, experience, and momentum. Then the market changed all at once. Today, many qualified leaders experience the same thing: Recruiter outreach has slowed, interview processes stall without explanation, roles disappear midsearch, and applications vanish into silence. After unanswered … Continue reading The new rules of executive hiring
May 27, 2026 The hiring market has an honesty problem BY Houman Akhavan As 7.4 million Americans sit unemployed, the path to employment has completely changed. Amid fake listings, AI filtering of candidates and widening talent pools, job seekers believe that they’re competing against a hiring ecosystem that penalizes honesty and rewards perception. The result? A … Continue reading The hiring market has an honesty problem
January 19, 2026 Why small businesses are saying they aren’t planning on hiring many recent grads in 2026
Agencies relied on entry-level talent for execution. Now, AI is doing that work — and fast. Mike Pastore on October 24, 2025 MarTechCharts regularly highlights data of interest to marketers and marketing operations professionals. Marketing agencies are in a period of transformation, thanks in part to AI, and they’re using the opportunity to think … Continue reading AI is changing the hiring practices of marketing agencies
September 19, 2025 Stop hiring product managers like project managers There’s a quiet disaster happening in product organizations right now. Companies are hiring armies of people with “product manager” on their business cards, but they’re treating them like project management with better vocabulary. Frankly I see it a lot with enterprise clients. Teams are drowning … Continue reading Stop hiring product managers like project managers
July 03, 2025 Jobs report: U.S. labor market beats expectations with healthy rate of hiring in June BY Associated Press U.S. employers added 147,000 jobs in June as the American labor market continues to show surprising resilience despite uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s economic policies. The unemployment rate ticked down 4.1% from 4.2% in May, the … Continue reading Jobs report: U.S. labor market beats expectations with healthy rate of hiring in June
February 05, 2025 How do I get a hiring manager to respond to me? It’s frustrating to send your résumé into the void and hear nothing back. Here’s how to follow up about an open job. BY Kathleen Davis Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way … Continue reading How do I get a hiring manager to respond to me?
Laid-off employees will reportedly be able to apply for other positions. The company is also adding 2,000 sales positions because of demand for AI products, Constantine von Hoffman on February 4, 2025 Salesforce is cutting 1,000 employees while it is in the middle of hiring 2,000 new ones. The layoff of more than 1% … Continue reading Salesforce laying off 1,000 during hiring push
October 31, 2024 70% of companies will use AI for hiring in 2025, says new study According to a new survey from Resume Builder, companies are increasingly relying on AI tools to conduct interviews, with 24% saying they currently use AI for the ‘entire interview process.’ BY Pavithra Mohan When recruiters are tasked with wading through … Continue reading 70% of companies will use AI for hiring in 2025, says new study
