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Faith Smith

Faith Smith provides IT-related expertise in the fields of Recruitment and Onboarding, as well as DevOps. Faith's unique combination of knowledge and skills provides insights into IT-driven recruitment practices, which makes her work popular among HR executives. Concise, efficient, and effective, are just some of the words used to describe Faith's work. 
Rethinking What Makes a Good Outside Hire
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Rethinking What Makes a Good Outside Hire

When a company faces turbulent markets and uncertain futures, the board’s instinct is often to seek a savior from the outside, a seasoned generalist whose sprawling résumé promises a wealth of diverse experience to navigate the storm. This impulse to hire for the broadest possible background is a deeply ingrained piece of corporate wisdom. However, recent evidence suggests this strategy

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Trend Analysis: Personalized Candidate Feedback
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Trend Analysis: Personalized Candidate Feedback

A single, unusually blunt rejection letter shared on Reddit has thrown the often-impersonal world of corporate hiring into the spotlight, sparking a fierce debate over the unwritten rules of candidate communication. This incident sharply illustrates the clash between a growing demand for transparency from job seekers and the entrenched corporate standard of generic, risk-averse communication. This analysis dissects the current

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Are You Just a Runner-Up in the Hiring Game?
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Are You Just a Runner-Up in the Hiring Game?

The modern job search has cultivated a particularly cruel form of whiplash, where a candidate can go from being lauded as the perfect fit to being dismissed as a close second in the span of a single email. This experience has become a common narrative in professional forums, exemplified recently by a viral post detailing an exhaustive four-stage interview process

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Trend Analysis: Deceptive Recruiting Tactics
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Trend Analysis: Deceptive Recruiting Tactics

The feeling of being the perfect candidate for a job, navigating multiple interviews with increasing confidence, only to be met with a cold rejection at the finish line has become an all-too-common narrative in today’s professional landscape. What was once an unfortunate but isolated experience is now emblematic of a larger, more troubling trend in corporate hiring. A recent viral

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Trend Analysis: Private Sector Hiring Slowdown
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Trend Analysis: Private Sector Hiring Slowdown

January’s private sector employment report delivered a stark and unexpected reality check to economists and job seekers alike, revealing a near-stagnant growth that fell dramatically short of already modest expectations. The health of private sector hiring serves as a primary barometer of the nation’s economic vitality, directly influencing the financial stability of workers, the confidence of consumers, and the strategic

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Employee Finds His Job Advertised for $20K More
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Employee Finds His Job Advertised for $20K More

Ling-yi Tsai, our HRTech expert, brings decades of experience assisting organizations in driving change through technology. She specializes in HR analytics tools and the integration of technology across recruitment, onboarding, and talent management processes. Today, she unpacks the explosive issue of pay discrepancies between long-serving employees and new hires, a scenario that recently left a three-year logistics coordinator feeling utterly

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DianaHR Launches Autonomous AI for Employee Onboarding
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DianaHR Launches Autonomous AI for Employee Onboarding

With decades of experience helping organizations navigate change through technology, HRTech expert Ling-Yi Tsai is at the forefront of the AI revolution in human resources. Today, she joins us to discuss a groundbreaking development from DianaHR: a production-grade AI agent that automates the entire employee onboarding process. We’ll explore how this agent “thinks,” the synergy between AI and human specialists,

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How Automation Drives DevOps Market Leadership
DevOps
How Automation Drives DevOps Market Leadership

In the fiercely competitive digital marketplace, the ability to rapidly deploy high-quality, reliable code has transcended being a mere competitive advantage and has become the fundamental prerequisite for corporate survival and market dominance. This capability is not born from isolated improvements but from a holistic transformation toward a unified Quality Engineering model. This paradigm dismantles the outdated, siloed workflows where

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Trend Analysis: Predictive Hiring Analytics
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Trend Analysis: Predictive Hiring Analytics

Navigating an increasingly volatile labor market has become one of the most significant challenges for modern organizations, where the financial and cultural cost of a single bad hire can reverberate for months. In this complex environment, predictive hiring analytics has emerged as a transformative strategic solution, converting recruitment from a reactive, gut-feel process into a proactive, data-driven function. This analysis

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One Identity Manager 10.0 Adds AI-Driven Threat Response
Cyber Security
One Identity Manager 10.0 Adds AI-Driven Threat Response

In a digital landscape where the human identity has become the most targeted and fragile layer of enterprise security, the traditional tools designed for governance are struggling to keep up with the velocity of modern cyberattacks. One Identity, a prominent leader in identity security, announced a landmark upgrade to its flagship Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solution on January 20,

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Trend Analysis: AI in Small Business Hiring
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Trend Analysis: AI in Small Business Hiring

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept discussed in corporate boardrooms but a present-day reality for small businesses grappling with the immense challenge of finding top talent in an increasingly competitive job market. With limited resources and intense pressure to perform, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly turning to AI to level the playing field, streamline hiring processes,

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Human Hire vs. AI Assistant: A Comparative Analysis
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Human Hire vs. AI Assistant: A Comparative Analysis

The traditional playbook for business growth dictates that expansion requires headcount, a costly and time-consuming assumption that is now being fundamentally challenged by a far more affordable counterpart. For generations, the process of filling a role has involved job listings, interviews, and offers, a system heavily reliant on intuition and established norms. Business owners rarely pause to ask if a

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