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AI Foundations for HR Teams

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How AI Screening Tools Actually Rank Candidates, and Where the Bias Creeps In

A look under the hood at match scores, embeddings, and knockout logic — and the specific points where a screening model quietly learns the wrong lesson.

Theo Brandt, a former talent-acquisition lead who now trains HR teams on AI · 9 min read

What NYC Local Law 144 and the EU AI Act Mean for Your Automated Hiring Tools

Two very different regulatory regimes now govern the AI in your recruiting stack — here's what each actually requires of you, in plain terms.

Theo Brandt, a former talent-acquisition lead who now trains HR teams on AI · 9 min read

A Practical Checklist for Vetting Any AI Feature Your HR Vendor Just Shipped

Your ATS pushed an update with a new 'AI assistant' toggle — here's how to evaluate it before you turn it on for real candidates.

Theo Brandt, a former talent-acquisition lead who now trains HR teams on AI · 8 min read

Recruiting Chatbots and Assistants

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Setting Up a Candidate-Screening Chatbot Without Scaring Off Good Applicants

How to use a screening bot to filter for real fit while keeping strong candidates engaged instead of driving them away.

Aisha Nwosu, a conversational-AI product manager for HR platforms · 8 min read

Building an Internal HR Helpdesk Assistant Grounded in Your Own Policy Docs

A practical guide to building an employee-facing HR assistant that answers from your real policies instead of making things up.

Aisha Nwosu, a conversational-AI product manager for HR platforms · 9 min read

Interview-Scheduling Bots: What Saves Time and What Annoys Candidates

An honest look at where scheduling automation earns its keep and where it quietly damages your candidate experience.

Aisha Nwosu, a conversational-AI product manager for HR platforms · 7 min read

AI Writing for Hiring and HR

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Writing Job Descriptions With AI That Attract Candidates Instead of Repelling Them

How to use AI to draft job posts that read like a real team wrote them, not a legal department and a keyword scraper.

Gwen Sato, an employer-brand copy chief · 8 min read

Personalizing Sourcing Outreach at Scale Without Sounding Like a Mail Merge

AI can write a hundred cold recruiting messages an hour. Here is how to make them read like one recruiter wrote each one on purpose.

Gwen Sato, an employer-brand copy chief · 8 min read

Drafting HR Policies and Review Comments With AI While Keeping a Human on Final

AI can accelerate the writing of HR policies and performance feedback, but the accountability, and the final read, has to stay with a person.

Gwen Sato, an employer-brand copy chief · 9 min read

Employer Brand Visuals

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Generating Careers-Page and Job-Ad Visuals That Actually Look Like Your Workplace

How to use AI image tools for recruiting visuals without ending up with the same fake open-plan office everyone else posts.

Luca Fenwick, an employer-branding creative director · 8 min read

AI Headshots and Team Photos: Consent, Accuracy, and When Not to Fake It

AI headshot tools are good enough to use for real people now, which is exactly why the consent and accuracy rules matter more.

Luca Fenwick, an employer-branding creative director · 8 min read

Turning Employee Stories Into Short Recruiting Videos With AI Editing Tools

A realistic 2026 workflow for turning one messy interview clip into scroll-stopping recruiting videos, using AI editing without faking the human part.

Luca Fenwick, an employer-branding creative director · 9 min read

Automating People Ops

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Automating Candidate Handoffs Between Your ATS and HRIS With No-Code Tools

A field guide to moving a hired candidate from your ATS into your HRIS cleanly, without a data engineer or copy-paste errors.

Devon Ramachandran, a people-ops automation engineer · 8 min read

Building an AI Resume-Parsing Workflow a Recruiter Can Actually Audit

How to extract structured data from resumes with an LLM while keeping every field traceable, reviewable, and defensible.

Devon Ramachandran, a people-ops automation engineer · 9 min read

Auto-Generating Onboarding Checklists and Reminders From Your Offer Pipeline

Turn an accepted offer into a role-specific onboarding plan and a reminder schedule automatically, without a coordinator building it by hand each time.

Devon Ramachandran, a people-ops automation engineer · 8 min read

The HR AI Business Case

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Calculating Real Cost-Per-Hire Savings Before You Buy an AI Recruiting Suite

A working method for modeling what an AI recruiting suite will actually save you, so your business case survives contact with finance.

Nadia Kowalczyk, a workforce-analytics and HR strategy consultant · 9 min read

How to Run a Vendor Bake-Off for AI Hiring Tools Without the Vendor Spin

A structured evaluation that uses your own reqs, your own data, and blind scoring to see past the demo and pick the tool that actually performs.

Nadia Kowalczyk, a workforce-analytics and HR strategy consultant · 9 min read

Presenting AI Adoption and Its Risks to Leadership Without Overpromising

How to make the case for AI in recruiting to your executive team in a way that earns trust, funds the work, and survives the first bad month.

Nadia Kowalczyk, a workforce-analytics and HR strategy consultant · 8 min read
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