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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…

I’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.…

Here’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…

One 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…

Every week, I hear the same question from job seekers: How do I beat the AI screening my resume? It has become almost as common as asking how to beat the ATS. I had absorbed some of that thinking myself, so I spoke with talent acquisition leader Leandro Gomes da Silva. I came away believing…

I spoke with a TA manager who built an AI-powered recruiting workflow inside Claude Cowork. Rather than using AI as another chatbot, she designed a system that helps guide recruiters from a rough job description all the way through candidate outreach. It includes workflows for intake meetings, job description enhancement, interview planning, candidate validation, competitor…

Whenever I talk with engineers about AI in recruiting, I usually get the same question. “So…how are recruiters using AI to source candidates and review resumes?” Fair question. Sourcing and resume review get most of the attention because they’re obvious pain points. But after spending time talking with talent leaders who are actually building with…

I asked a Principal Engineer what’s the most important part of programming… It wasn’t: His Answer? Organization That was….unexpected. I asked him to explain: ⏩Code is read far more than it’s written: Good organization makes navigating old code fast instead of turning every bug fix into a scavenger hunt ⏩It’s what lets a codebase scale…

I was talking with a group of Quality Engineers recently when someone asked me a question I couldn’t answer. “How do you quantify your experience if you don’t have percentages?” My immediate reaction was, “How do you not have percentages?” They said, “I don’t have access to those numbers. I know I improved things, but…

When I see the same job pop up over and over again on LinkedIn, my mind immediately goes to one of four places. First, they’re collecting resumes. Second, they’re building a pipeline even though they aren’t ready to hire. Third, the business and IT can’t get aligned on what they’re actually looking for, so the…

I sat down with a TA leader from PromptMates whose career has evolved from agency recruiting into helping early-stage companies build hiring functions, recruiting operations, and AI-enabled recruiting workflows. Since much of his work revolves around building pipeline from scratch, I asked him a simple question: If you walked back into Robert Half tomorrow, were…

One of my favorite parts about interviewing Talent Acquisition folks inside the PromptMates community is realizing how often I walk into a conversation expecting one thing and leave thinking about something completely different. I thought my conversation with Jess was going to be about Claude Skills, Plugins, and Change Management. And I mean…it was. But…