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A Substack newsletter on hiring trends and job market conditions written from inside recruiting, with posts on how employers screen and select candidates. Free posts are available to read and subscribe to by email.
Workday's customer case study describes Southern Rock Restaurants using conversational AI to automate recruiting. Savings, turnover and advertising figures are vendor/customer-reported, not independent findings.
A free-to-browse job board for recruiters, sourcers, coordinators, and talent-acquisition leaders. The site describes employer-sourced listings updated several times a day; application requirements vary by employer.
Job-search portal from staffing firm Akraya, with filters for location and roles including software engineering, AI, design and marketing. Job seekers can browse openings and submit a resume for recruiter consideration.
TestGorilla's 2026 survey of more than 1,000 talent professionals on how recruiting has changed, finding that sourcing candidates is easier while judging who can do the job is harder.
An HR guide to planning for skills gaps and talent shortages before they hit, covering whether to build, buy, or borrow talent. It cites ManpowerGroup data that 72% of employers still struggle to fill roles, and contrasts industries with shortages against job seekers sending hundreds of applications. A guest contribution from Global Verification Network, updated April 7, 2026.
Why I recommend it: A practical employer-side view of the skills-gap problem — pairs well with resources written for job seekers navigating the same market.
A web tool from Performance-based Hiring ("Moneyball for HR") that estimates the odds a candidate will exceed a job's performance objectives at the one-year mark, using evidence of past performance instead of interview impressions. Includes a sample report.
Business Chief reports Indeed CEO Hisayuki Idekoba calling the hiring market 'vicious' as AI-generated applications and a 111% surge in applicants per role overwhelm recruiters.
Free online courses from recruiting-software company Ashby on hiring analytics, recruiting practices and talent trends. A free account is required; much of the material is written for Ashby users.
A recruiting and career-services firm; its site shares job openings and career advice.
Why I recommend it: Recruiters are paid by employers, not you — never pay a recruiter to place you.
Chicago Booth Review on a study of 70,000 job applicants comparing machine screening with human recruiters.
Why I recommend it: Free article summarising academic research. Results come from one hiring setting and may not apply everywhere.
Peterson Technology Partners on AI-written resumes meeting AI screening, and what that does to hiring.
Why I recommend it: Written by a staffing firm that sells recruiting services.
Hiring guides, salary context and role descriptions for data positions, published by a data-focused staffing firm.
From the site: As data science recruiters, we love share our insights on the process. Here's a collection of our best resources and tips for recruiters.
Why I recommend it: This is written for recruiters, not candidates — read it that way. It shows you how data roles get scoped and screened before you ever see the posting.
A free conversation with Veronica Salcido of GrowthAssistant on hiring for durable skills that outlast specific tools, and what that means for how candidates present themselves.
Why I recommend it: Hear how a hiring leader actually judges candidates, then mirror that language in your applications.
A free-forever resume builder from former tech recruiter Tejal Rives that teaches the CAFE method (Cause, Action, Findings, Effect) for writing stronger bullets instead of just generating them, plus a job application tracker.
Why I recommend it: The teaching part is the point. Learn the CAFE structure here once and you can write good bullets anywhere, with or without the tool.
Research from Specific Resume on what really happens to resumes at high-volume job openings — most are never opened by a human, and the true gatekeeper is a time-starved recruiter rather than the applicant tracking system everyone fears.
Why I recommend it: Read this before you spend another weekend keyword-stuffing for the ATS. The takeaway is to make the top third of page one obviously relevant to one specific role, and to find a human path in alongside the application.
A practical walkthrough from career ghostwriter area|Talent on searching LinkedIn effectively — Boolean and filter tactics, how semantic search and AI recruiting agents read your profile, and what to fix so recruiters can find you.
Why I recommend it: Do the profile fixes before you do the searching. Being findable pays off longer than any single search you run today.
A curated list of recruiting and job-search resources from Knak Digital, covering career coaches, resume services, job boards, and hiring guidance for both candidates and employers.
Why I recommend it: A useful index if you are looking for vetted career coaches, resume writers, or recruiting partners; browse both the job-seeker and employer sections.
A connected-candidate recruiting platform that matches job seekers with employers based on skills and fit, with tools for both candidates and hiring teams.
Why I recommend it: A niche job-matching option worth testing alongside the larger boards; set up a profile and see what roles it surfaces for your skills.
A September 2026 working paper by Brian Jabarian (Carnegie Mellon) and Luca Henkel (Erasmus Rotterdam) reporting a field experiment with 70,000 real applicants randomly assigned to be interviewed by a human recruiter or an AI voice agent. Applicants interviewed by AI were 12% more likely to receive an offer, with higher job starts and retention and no drop in on-the-job productivity. Transcript analysis traces the gain to more structured, consistent interviews that still adapt to each applicant.
Why I recommend it: If you have been told AI interviews are stacked against you, this is the largest piece of real evidence so far and it points the other way: consistent, structured questions helped candidates more than a tired recruiter on their eleventh call did. Prepare for them like any structured interview, with clear, specific answers.
Created by Brian Jabarian and Luca Henkel
Career and job-search insights from Bryan Creely, a corporate recruiter of 25 years, covering layoffs, resumes, interviews and how hiring decisions actually get made.
Why I recommend it: Recruiter-side perspective on why applications get rejected. The free articles and videos are the useful part.
Recruiting and talent-operations blog covering hiring processes, applicant tracking systems, and how recruiters actually evaluate candidates.
Why I recommend it: Reading recruiter-facing blogs tells you what happens after you hit submit. That context changes how you write applications.
Blog on recruiting automation, candidate screening, and conversational AI in hiring, from a recruiting-technology company.
Why I recommend it: Learn how AI screening works so you can write applications that survive it.
A free browser-based practice aid that walks through a recruiter phone screen question by question, so you can rehearse the opening conversation most candidates wing.
Why I recommend it: The recruiter screen is the round people prepare for least and get cut in most. Run through this once out loud before your next call.
