As of 2026, at least sixteen US states plus Washington DC require some form of pay range disclosure in job postings, and that number has grown almost every year since Colorado passed the first broad statewide law in 2021. If a recruiting team is still writing “salary commensurate with experience” on a job ad, there […]
An AI voice interview is a phone or voice call where an AI agent, not a human recruiter, asks candidates job related questions, listens to their spoken answers, and scores the conversation in real time. It is quickly becoming the default way many companies run first round screening, replacing the recruiter phone screen as the […]
Internal mobility beats external hiring on cost, speed, and retention in most measurable ways, but only when a company can actually see what its employees are capable of. Without verified skills data, an internal talent marketplace is just a job board with extra steps, and most stall out within a year of launch. The difference […]
Candidate ghosting is when a job applicant stops responding, skips a scheduled interview, or goes silent after accepting an offer, without any explanation to the employer. It is not a rare annoyance anymore. It is now a routine, recurring drain on recruiting operations, and it is getting worse heading into the second half of 2026. […]
AI hiring compliance in 2026 means two specific things for most global employers: passing an independent bias audit and posting the results under New York City’s Local Law 144 if you hire candidates who live in NYC, and treating your hiring AI as a high risk system under the EU AI Act if you use […]
Contingent worker identity verification is the practice of confirming that a freelancer, contractor, or gig worker is who they claim to be before they are onboarded, not just screened on paper. Most companies apply this scrutiny to full time employees and skip or shortcut it for contingent talent, which is exactly the gap fraud actors […]
A structured interview scorecard is a standardized form that lists the specific competencies a role requires, gives every interviewer the same rating scale to judge candidate answers against, and forces a written justification for each score. It exists to replace gut feeling with evidence, so five interviewers evaluating the same candidate land on comparable, defensible […]
Most nonexecutive roles are taking about 39 days to fill in 2026, down slightly from 44 days in 2025, according to SHRM’s most recent benchmark update. Executive roles average around 45 days. But that single number hides enormous variation. Retail and hospitality roles can close in two to three weeks, while software engineering, healthcare, and […]
Most employers now say they practice skills based hiring, and most job postings have quietly dropped the “bachelor’s degree required” line. But the data on actual hires tells a different story. Across multiple 2026 analyses, the share of new hires who are non degreed candidates has barely moved, even at companies that formally removed degree […]
Candidates are showing up to video interviews and coding tests with ChatGPT open on a second screen, running in voice mode through an earpiece, or feeding them answers through an invisible overlay window. This is ChatGPT interview cheating: real time AI assistance during a live interview, not identity fraud or a fake candidate. Here is […]
Yes, but only partially, and usually only if you already had reasonable verification controls in place before the loss happened. There is no single retail insurance product actually called “hiring fraud insurance.” Instead, coverage for the financial fallout of a fraudulent hire is scattered across several policies many companies already own: commercial crime insurance and […]
AI proctoring does not have to feel invasive to candidates. The friction candidates report almost never comes from the security measure itself, it comes from monitoring that is unexplained, disproportionate to the role, or reviewed without a human in the loop. Done well, AI proctoring protects assessment integrity while candidates barely notice it, because they […]
