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Insights, outlooks, and inspiration for talent winners
From Stage Fright to Blackout: Anxiety in Hiring Processes – and What Recruiters and Candidates Can Do About It
As a recruiter, you typically conduct interviews, moderate assessment centers, and evaluate job candidates through tests. It’s easy to...
Recruiting of Portfolio Profiles: Opportunity for Talent Acquisition
Work is evolving rapidly. Digitalization, shifting lifestyles, talent shortages, and demand for flexibility are sidelining traditional...
When Recruiters Themselves Become the Bias Factor – Gender Effects in Hiring
End at the door: Biased Recruiter. Recruiting presents numerous challenges, including talent shortages, rising candidate expectations,...
Portfolio Careers on the Rise: How This Is Changing the Job Search
For decades, a career meant completing an apprenticeship or degree, joining a company, advancing for years, and eventually retiring. That...
ATS Market 2025: The SAP-SmartRecruiters deal is reshaping HR tech—here’s what recruiters in small and mid-sized companies need to know.
In August 2025, SAP acquired SmartRecruiters, marking a significant disruption in the HR tech market. For many DACH companies, the ATS...
Leading with Confidence in Crisis: Why Empathy and Decisiveness Are Essential Leadership Traits
The world reels from conflict, economies slide into turmoil, and the prevailing mood is one of tension. Uncertainty permeates every team...
Enough with the Perfect Smile: Why Transparency in Employer Branding Matters More than Polished Messages
Yes, every company claims to be amazing—offering fantastic work culture, outstanding training opportunities, and unbeatable working...
AI in Recruiting: Minimizing Bias with the Right Preparation
AI in recruiting promises efficiency, better matching, and more transparency. But the algorithms often mirror hiring managers' biases,...
OpenAI’s Jobs Platform: How Jobseekers Can Prepare Today
he news spread quickly across HR media: OpenAI plans to launch its own jobs platform in 2026 – powered by AI-driven matching and...
OpenAI Jobs Platform: Challenge and Opportunity – How Companies Can Prepare Now
OpenAI’s announcement that it will launch its own jobs platform in 2026, complete with AI fluency certifications, raises pressing...
Gender Gap Beyond Pay: Men Use AI Job Tools More Often Than Women
When discussing gender inequality in the labor market, pay gaps often dominate the conversation. However, a new, quieter divide is...
AI beats Recruiters: Candidates prefer being interviewed by a robot.
Hard to take results of a study, published by the universities of Chicago and Rotterdam. I stumbled across it via a blog post at the...
A closer look: Lindy.ai – A Fast Track into AI for Job Seekers, Recruiters, and HR
Artificial Intelligence is transforming recruiting and HR at a rapid pace. Yet many tools remain siloed: one ATS here, an interview bot...
Quo Vadis Recruiting in the Age of AI? Will GPTs Soon Be Talking Only to Each Other?
The conversation around artificial intelligence is accelerating: automated résumé parsers, matching algorithms, chatbots, generative...
Recruiting: Everyone’s Hyping AI – But 9 Out of 10 Companies Don’t Even Have the Basics Right
Go to any HR conference today and you’ll hear about artificial intelligence in recruiting: resume-screening bots, predictive analytics,...
Recruiting in Times of Crisis: Why Now Is the Best Moment to Optimize Your Processes
The headlines are clear. Trump tariffs are disrupting global trade. W ar risks are heightening geopolitical uncertainty. Many companies...
Employer Branding in Times of Crisis: Essential or Expendable?
The headlines speak for themselves: renewed Trump tariffs are shaking global trade, war risks in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are...
"Beyond the Résumé" - State of Work Today - Podcast Appearance
Some weeks ago, I spoke with Tim Glowa, Host of the "State of Work Today" HR-Podcast and founder of HRbrain.ai , about why authenticity,...
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