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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…
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Candidates are worried about “beating the AI.” That’s the wrong fight.
Read more: Candidates are worried about “beating the AI.” That’s the wrong fight.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…
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I Expected to Learn About AI. Instead, I Learned How Recruiters Need to Think Differently
Read more: I Expected to Learn About AI. Instead, I Learned How Recruiters Need to Think DifferentlyI 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…






