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Staffing: How One Sales Rep Built His Own AI Stack to Kill Manual Admin Work
Read more: Staffing: How One Sales Rep Built His Own AI Stack to Kill Manual Admin WorkMost sales reps did not sign up for data entry. I know I didn’t. And yet, a huge chunk of the job still comes down to writing notes, updating a CRM, and trying to remember what a prospect said three calls ago and when to follow-up. For reps who manage a large book of business,…
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You Don’t Need to Be an Engineer to Build Better Recruiting Systems
Read more: You Don’t Need to Be an Engineer to Build Better Recruiting SystemsOne of my favorite parts about recruiting isn’t just filling jobs. It’s talking to people who solve problems. This week I had a conversation with Catia, a technical recruiter who’s spent the last decade sourcing engineering talent. We started talking about GitHub sourcing, and within a few minutes she casually mentioned she’d built her own…
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Recruiters Are Sleeping on Claude Design (And Why They Shouldn’t Be)
Read more: Recruiters Are Sleeping on Claude Design (And Why They Shouldn’t Be)A recap of Promptmates Live, featuring Jamie Lyons (The Rec Lab) and Matt Parker (Move) If you’ve spent any time building with AI over the last year, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: the outputs work, but they look like AI made them. Clunky HTML files. Generic dashboards. Candidate outreach that’s functionally solid but visually forgettable.…
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Skills to Steal: Notetaker In, Priorities Out
Read more: Skills to Steal: Notetaker In, Priorities OutI’ve been running my own version of this setup for a while now, using Fireflies to capture meetings and Cowork to turn the mess of transcripts, calendar invites, and follow-ups into something actually usable. It’s saved me hours every week. So when I saw a post in PromptMates breaking down a similiar system, I knew…
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Being “Out of Work” Is Not the Signal You Think It Is
Read more: Being “Out of Work” Is Not the Signal You Think It IsIt’s time we retire the mentality that someone who has been out of work for three months to two years is somehow weaker than a candidate with “better tenure.” Honestly, if I had five bucks for every candidate I came across with great tenure who turned out to be a C player, I could retire.…
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Two Builds That Caught My Attention from the PromptMates Community
Read more: Two Builds That Caught My Attention from the PromptMates CommunityThe PM slack channel is off the chain! Every week I come across builds that make me stop and think, “That’s a clever way to solve that problem.” Here are two that stood out to me this week: 1. Stub Skills + Source Skills This concept, shared by Dan, tackles a problem that anyone building…
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Inside PromptMates: Three AI Builds Solving Real Recruiting Problems
Read more: Inside PromptMates: Three AI Builds Solving Real Recruiting ProblemsThe PromptMates community keeps proving that some of the most useful AI tooling isn’t coming out of big product teams. It’s coming from practitioners who got tired of a specific, everyday problem and decided to fix it themselves. Three recent shares from the community are great examples of that. One rethinks how sourcing tools score…
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I Thought Vibe Coding Wasn’t For Me. Then I Built Something
Read more: I Thought Vibe Coding Wasn’t For Me. Then I Built SomethingI’ll admit: When I first started hearing people talk about “vibe coding,” I wasn’t convinced it was for me. My thought is, if I can’t read the code, how can I trust what I’m building? I’ve always believed technical fundamentals matter. Understanding architecture matters. Knowing how systems connect matters. So instead of jumping straight into…
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You’re Probably Doing More Than “Manual Testing”
Read more: You’re Probably Doing More Than “Manual Testing”Lessons from a QA professional navigating the job market for the first time in 12 years. When you’ve spent 12 years at the same company, you don’t expect your next challenge to be writing a resume. But that was the reality for Rebekah. After spending more than a decade helping build and grow the QA…
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AI Doesn’t Fail Because of the Technology
Read more: AI Doesn’t Fail Because of the TechnologyI’ve been thinking a lot about the gap between seeing what AI can do and actually getting people to use it. Because the demos are everywhere. Someone builds an impressive workflow. The automation works. Everyone gets excited about the possibilities. Then reality hits. The workflow doesn’t get adopted. The team doesn’t change how they work.…
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Let’s Not Roll the Dice on a $130K Engineering Seat
Read more: Let’s Not Roll the Dice on a $130K Engineering SeatHere’s a scenario every recruiter knows: you run a clean, professional interview loop. Everyone feels good about it. And at the end, your managers can’t decide or agree which candidate is the better fit and the decision comes down to….a feeling. That’s what happened here. A friend of mine, an SDET with a strong track…
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The Recruiter Who Isn’t Letting AI Make the Final Call
Read more: The Recruiter Who Isn’t Letting AI Make the Final CallOne of the questions I keep hearing from Talent Acquisition leaders is: “Where does AI actually fit into recruiting?” Where is it saving time? Where is it improving workflows? And where does human judgment still matter? So I sat down with Cameron Black, a Sr TA Partner in Charlotte, to talk through how she approaches…


