By 2027, not knowing how to work with AI won’t get you fired — it’ll get you quietly excluded. In this episode, we unpack why AI literacy is no longer a skill, but a signal. A test of trust, judgment, and who gets a voice inside AI-mediated workplaces. This isn’t Continue Reading
In this episode of the Jim Stroud Podcast, host Jim Stroud sits down with Michelle Cass, global talent acquisition executive and author of Hired by Humanity, for a candid, deeply practical conversation about the real impact of AI on hiring, recruiters, and candidates. With more than 20 years of experience Continue Reading
Recruiting looks clean on a dashboard. A funnel. A workflow. A timestamp. But every resume you skim is attached to a nervous system. And when someone loses a job, the stress is not “a little disappointment.” On the classic life-events stress scale, being fired at work sits in the same Continue Reading
We’re in a moment of deep contradiction. Thousands of highly capable people are out of work—many with years of experience in healthcare, life sciences, biotech, manufacturing, and adjacent fields. Yet recruiting teams keep saying what they’ve said for years: “We can’t find qualified candidates.” Both things shouldn’t be true at Continue Reading
Happy new year to my (now) 10,000+ followers of my newsletter – “The Recruiting Life” which gives clarity to what’s happening now and next in the world of work. Yay! I could not have done it without you.
