End of naive optimism, shrinking TA team size, the job applicant flood, candidate experience crisis + ghost job mythology, quiet AI-enablement of recruitment teams, geographical dispersal of remote-able jobs, crisis in early careers hiring, maturation of the debate on Skills Based Hiring, the rebrand of A player Hiring (talent density), consolidation of recruitment tech stack, stabilisation of WFH / Remote work, rise of freelance / fractional TA, devolution and revolution of job boards into staffing agencies, Atlantic divergence on DEI, TikTok lay off livestreams, war on middle managers, mainstreaming of the discourse on demographic & immigration, verticalisation of AI and LinkedIn Copilot. Writing about all this in a series of four essays, final part to come tomorrow: read Parts
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