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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. 
Are AI Recruiters Taking Over Hiring in China?
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Are AI Recruiters Taking Over Hiring in China?

The landscape of talent acquisition in China is undergoing a profound and rapid transformation, driven not by a single new methodology but by the pervasive integration of artificial intelligence into the very core of human resources. This technological evolution has moved beyond theoretical discussions and niche applications to become a consensus trend, fundamentally redefining how companies discover, assess, and onboard

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Does This Viral Rejection Reveal a Hiring Crisis?
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Does This Viral Rejection Reveal a Hiring Crisis?

A single, brutally honest rejection email recently accomplished what years of think pieces and HR seminars could not: it forced a raw, nationwide conversation about the state of hiring. From a Single Reddit Post to a Nationwide Conversation The email that captivated the internet was anything but typical. Shared by a job seeker on Reddit, it rejected a highly qualified

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How to Rebuild Trust with Post-Layoff Re-Onboarding
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How to Rebuild Trust with Post-Layoff Re-Onboarding

In today’s volatile business landscape, layoffs have become an unfortunate reality. But what happens after the dust settles? We’re joined by Ling-yi Tsai, an HRTech expert with decades of experience helping organizations navigate change. She specializes in leveraging technology and data to rebuild stronger, more resilient teams. Today, we’ll explore the critical, yet often overlooked, process of “re-onboarding” the employees

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How to Build an Onboarding Program That Retains Talent?
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How to Build an Onboarding Program That Retains Talent?

The first ninety days of employment are a critical probationary period, not just for the new hire, but for the company proving it is a place worth staying. Too often, this crucial window is reduced to a whirlwind of compliance paperwork and procedural briefings, a transactional exchange that misses the profound opportunity to forge a lasting connection. A truly strategic

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What Is the True Cost of a Slow Hiring Process?
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What Is the True Cost of a Slow Hiring Process?

The Ticking Clock: More Than Just a Vacant Desk In today’s competitive business landscape, an open position on an organizational chart is more than just an empty space; it is a ticking clock whose reverberations are felt long after the vacancy is filled. While most leaders understand the need to fill roles, many underestimate the profound and compounding costs of

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US Labor Market Cools as Firms Adopt Strategic Hiring
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US Labor Market Cools as Firms Adopt Strategic Hiring

A Paradigm Shift: From Hiring Frenzy to Strategic Foresight The once-feverish pace of the U.S. labor market is giving way to a period of deliberate cooling, as companies pivot from rapid expansion to a more strategic and measured approach to talent acquisition. This shift marks a significant recalibration, where the focus is no longer on filling roles quickly but on

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U.S. Job Market Cools, Ending an Era of Worker Leverage
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U.S. Job Market Cools, Ending an Era of Worker Leverage

The undeniable roar of the post-pandemic hiring engine has quieted to a low hum, signaling a profound shift in the American economic landscape that demands immediate attention. The period of unprecedented job growth and significant worker leverage has definitively ended. The U.S. labor market now flashes a yellow light, indicating a period of significant cooling and mounting uncertainty that demands

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Early Data Suggests AI Is Driving Job and Wage Growth
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Early Data Suggests AI Is Driving Job and Wage Growth

Contrary to the widespread anxiety that artificial intelligence will trigger a wave of mass unemployment, initial economic indicators are painting a surprisingly different and more optimistic picture of the technology’s impact on the labor market. The prevailing narrative of machines rendering human jobs obsolete is being challenged by fresh evidence suggesting that, at least in its early stages, AI adoption

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AI Is Driving Faster Growth in Jobs and Wages
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AI Is Driving Faster Growth in Jobs and Wages

Contrary to the pervasive narrative of mass job displacement driven by automation, emerging data from the labor market presents a compelling and unexpected counternarrative. Instead of widespread layoffs, the initial integration of artificial intelligence into the corporate world appears to be fueling a significant surge in both employment opportunities and wage growth, particularly within the very sectors most exposed to

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Resilience Becomes the New Velocity for DevOps in 2026
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Resilience Becomes the New Velocity for DevOps in 2026

With extensive expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain, Dominic Jainy has a unique perspective on the forces reshaping modern software delivery. As AI-driven development accelerates release cycles to unprecedented speeds, he argues that the industry is at a critical inflection point. The conversation has shifted from a singular focus on velocity to a more nuanced understanding of system

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US Hiring Slows Sharply as Uncertainty Mounts
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US Hiring Slows Sharply as Uncertainty Mounts

With decades of experience helping organizations navigate change through technology, HRTech expert Ling-yi Tsai joins us to dissect the latest, perplexing signals from the U.S. labor market. Today, we’ll explore the dramatic volatility between public and private sector jobs, the growing divergence in industry growth, and the immense pressure on American households. We will also delve into how corporate hesitation,

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Hiring Halts as Uncertainty Grips the US Economy
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Hiring Halts as Uncertainty Grips the US Economy

From Boom to Brake: The Sudden Halt in America’s Hiring Engine After years of robust, post-pandemic expansion that saw the U.S. labor market add jobs at a torrid pace, the nation’s hiring engine has hit a formidable wall, with momentum screeching to a near-halt. The once-celebrated recovery has given way to a period of profound apprehension as businesses grapple with

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