He Didn’t Leave for More Money

Empty desks visible through office windows at dusk

A controller resigned at seven months. Not for a raise, but for less volatility nobody had asked him about. What skills screening keeps missing.

The New Rules of the Game

Hire Intelligence · September 2026 Your hiring process is not broken. It is running a playbook written for a market that stopped existing about eighteen months ago. Same steps. Twice the time. Worse candidates. Most teams have concluded the market is bad. The market is not bad. The board changed. The landscape in five numbers […]

The AI Hiring Paradox

Companies and candidates are both using AI to hire and get hired. Neither trusts the other with it. What twenty years in recruiting says about navigating the shift.