Recruiting

When candidates vanish: What HR needs to do next

05/11/2026

Ghosting rarely happens in a vacuum. Often, it’s a symptom of deeper issues in the hiring and onboarding process.

AI in hiring and promotion: Where efficiency creates legal risk

04/20/2026

For organizations that receive hundreds or even thousands of applicants per role, AI tools promise efficiency: faster résumé screening, automated candidate ranking and data-driven recommendations. But efficiency does not eliminate legal risk. In some cases, it redistributes it.

Second-chance job fairs gain traction

04/06/2026

While state “block the box” laws that defer questions about one’s criminal past until a conditional job offer has been made have increased the number of former prisoners who are hired, another approach is also taking hold. That’s the second-chance job fair, where employers know immediately that applicants have a criminal past.

Consider recruiting white-collar workers for blue-collar jobs

03/30/2026

In adversity, there is opportunity—in this case, for employers that rely on blue-collar workers to operate their businesses. If that describes your company, the new white-collar insecurity represents an opportunity to recruit, train and deploy blue-collar workers coming from white-collar jobs.

Your next hire may have had a little help from Mom and Dad

03/23/2026

Zety’s new Career Co-Piloting Report reveals that today’s young job seekers are bringing the whole family along for the ride.

Job market stumbles in February as federal cuts drag down payrolls

03/16/2026

The unemployment rate held steady at 4.4 percent, with 7.6 million Americans out of work.

Secret overseas workers? Tax and other problems abound

03/16/2026

You may think an employee is sending work and videoconferencing in from a known location, but your staff may be operating from anywhere in the world. And that can create tax and other problems for those workers and the company that employs them.

How to close the AI gap in hiring before it widens

03/02/2026

A new survey from talent solutions firm AMS cuts through the noise on AI in hiring and lands on an uncomfortable truth: Most organizations believe AI is mission-critical for talent acquisition, yet nearly half can’t agree internally on how to use it.

January jobs surge tempered by sharp downward revisions

02/17/2026

Employers added 130,000 jobs in January, exceeding expectations and marking the strongest monthly gain since December 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report released Feb. 11. The unemployment rate declined to 4.3%, down from 4.4% in December.

Fraud topples talent scarcity as hiring’s biggest threat