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There’s a scene in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times where he’s working on an assembly line, trying desperately to keep up with everything coming at him. The assembly line keeps moving… The post How...

I went to New York to meet a few of our customers, and while I was there I recorded a couple new episodes of people actually. And as I was… The post People Actually Recap: What We Learned from...

What do a recent college graduate and someone five years from retirement have in common? They’re both applying for jobs in the same hiring market. But here’s the catch: their… The post One Size...

TL;DR: AI is officially on both sides of the interview table. Candidates are using AI to find jobs, improve resumes, prepare for interviews, and even generate answers in real time.… The post Bots...

What are candidates really thinking?  How are they responding to today’s job market? What makes them accept one offer over another? And what does it take to earn their trust?… The post 7 Job...

What are candidates really thinking?  How are they responding to today’s job market? What makes them accept one offer over another? And what does it take to earn their trust?… The post 7 Job...

Imagine you’re in an executive meeting, and your CEO turns to you and asks, “How is hiring impacting the business?”   How do you answer?    If your first instinct is to pull up your latest...

When we introduced the concept of the “Great Pause” in this year’s Job Seeker Nation Report, the obvious takeaway was that fewer people were looking for jobs. In plain terms,… The post The Great...

Since joining Employ and spending my days talking with recruiters, TA pros, and HR leaders, I’ve found myself reflecting a lot on my own hiring philosophy.  So much of it comes from my… The post...

Think back to the last time you applied for a job…  For years, hiring teams focused their attention on creating the kind of candidate experience that checks all those boxes and… The post The...

Five years ago, recruiters didn’t spend much (if any) of their time questioning whether a resume was authentic. And candidates? Generally assumed there was a real person reviewing their...

When I started the people actually podcast back in March, my vision was to simply highlight the unsung heroes behind every company—the TA and HR pros. Because people power your business, and these...

TL; DR  Hiring isn’t resume-led anymore—and in truth, it can’t be.  Thanks to the rise of AI, all a candidate has to do is pop a job description into their LLM of choice and out comes… The post...

Baby Boomers first started entering the job market in the 1960s.  Gen Z? They’re entering the job market as we speak.  Today’s workforce is made up of four very distinct, and often, very...

You heard it here first: The “Great Stay” is officially over. Welcome to what we’ve coined at Employ as “The Great Pause.”   For the past few years, our Job Seeker Nation data showed a consistent...

TL;DR: AI didn’t just change the hiring game—it completely rewrote the rules. But with new benefits came new challenges. Specifically: candidate fraud.   Almost overnight, TA pros were left...

TL; DR Peak season doesn’t sneak up—but somehow the hiring scramble always does.  One minute you’re fully staffed. The next? Open shifts, long lines, and “we’re hiring” signs everywhere. ...

Buzzwords? Polished decks? Surface-level trends?   Let’s just say… those weren’t in the room at Employ’s recent Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting.   What was in the room? Honest conversations...

Time to hire. Offer acceptance rate. Candidate experience score.   In today’s recruiting world, tracking these metrics is table stakes. But the real question is: How do you know if your results...