Your employer could be making you obsolete while paying you well. As AI reshapes work, the best employee benefit may not be salary, perks, or remote work. It may be an employer that makes you more valuable with every passing year. Listen in to hear why that matters. This episode Continue Reading
The Jim Stroud Podcast
The Rot You Can’t See on a Resume
What happens when AI makes you more productive—but less capable? Jim Stroud explores the hidden “cognitive debt” of outsourcing your thinking, the growing divide between AI-fluent workers and passive dependents, and why recruiters can no longer trust polished resumes as proof of real ability. The new hiring challenge: finding candidates Continue Reading
Nobody owns the decision that costs you rent
A model spends 300 milliseconds on your resume and the decision follows you for years. Courtrooms are fighting over whether hiring algorithms tilt toward some candidates or against others, and both sides are arguing about the wrong thing. This episode makes the case that the real scandal is not the Continue Reading
Time Travelers in Your Pipeline
In this episode: One in five LinkedIn users has rewritten a job they already left. A new Stanford study caught “time travelers” adding AI skills to old roles, deleting DEI, and letting chatbots ghostwrite their pasts. What the edits reveal, and why a freshly polished old job is the loudest Continue Reading
We Have AI. Do We Still Need HR?
Jim Stroud speaks with Susan Anderson, Chief Services Officer for Mitratech’s HR Solutions Division, about why human judgment, accountability, and transparency still matter in an AI-powered workplace. They discuss AI-driven hiring decisions, workplace policies, employee productivity, algorithmic management, compensation, and whether AI agents should be treated like workers. Susan explains Continue Reading