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AI Agents in HR: What They Can Actually Do Today
An AI agent in HR is software that chooses its own next step and acts on your systems without a person approving…
AI in Payroll: The Risks, the Benefits, and Where the Line Sits
Here is the division of labour I would defend to any payroll manager: AI belongs in detection and explanation, and it does…
How to Build a Skills Taxonomy for a Mid-Size Company (Without Consultants)
The method fits in four steps: adopt a public taxonomy, cut it down to your roles, add behavioural proficiency levels, and name…
Verify Candidate Skills in the AI Era: Designing Assessments People Can’t Fake
A recruiter told me last spring that candidates were pasting her assessment questions into ChatGPT, and asked what she could do to…
Skills-Based Hiring Implementation: What the Companies That Made It Work Did Differently
Eighty-two percent of hiring stakeholders say their organization is shifting toward a skills-based approach. Fifty-three percent of employers say they have no…
Screening AI-Generated Job Applications: The Employer Playbook
Assume every application in your pile was written with AI. Not most of them. All of them. That assumption is wrong often…
Building in Public: What We’ll Claim and What We Won’t
The standard we hold our own marketing to — and an invitation to hold us to it.
Why Every AI Action Should Need a Human Yes
Plan, preview, approve: the governance pattern we refuse to ship without.
Skills Are the New Currency of Business
Why capability, not headcount, is the number that predicts performance.
The Hidden Tax of Workforce Complexity
Where 20–30% of HR capacity typically goes — and how to see it in your own team.
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