When Every Resume Looks Elite, Screening Shifts To Verifying The Human Behind Them
Four in ten hiring pros now battle AI-misrepresented candidates. Empower Pharmacy TA Partner Frank Strick on rebuilding trust the resume no longer carries.
Growth & Strategy
Growth strategy news on hiring decisions, including the true cost of a bad hire, skills-based hiring's mixed results, and how to define the role right.
Flattening Management Layers Succeeds On The Capability Built Underneath
Stephanie Crook, Principal at PKC Group and a former Intel executive, explains what a leaner structure asks of the managers who remain.
In Minnesota, Discovery Hiring Replaces Applicant Rankings With Short Interviews That Test Job Skills
Bloomington, Minnesota’s HR manager interviews every qualified applicant, one skill per round, and says it fills jobs faster than ranking candidates.
HR Trends 2027: 8 Shifts HR Leaders Need to Plan For
The 8 HR trends for 2027: leaner teams, AI accountability, overwhelmed managers and more, drawing on Gartner’s new CHRO priorities and Criteria research.
Mapping The Shadow Org Chart Covers What Succession Planning Misses
Global talent acquisition and transformation executive Philippe Bernimolin describes the record a company needs before its next restructuring.
How to Evaluate AI Hiring Tools: 8 Questions to Ask Vendors
How to evaluate AI hiring tools, with the eight questions to ask vendors about accuracy, bias audits, explainability and compliance before you buy.
Fixing The Pipeline Problem Starts With Killing The 'Talent Surplus' Mindset
Michael Peterson, Sr. Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Edwards Lifesciences, on why the pipeline problem is a mindset problem before it's a sourcing one.
Hiring Trends 2027: What 1,000+ Hiring Professionals Expect Next Year
Hiring trends for 2027 from Criteria's survey of 1,027 hiring professionals: harder hiring, AI candidate fraud, entry-level shifts and Gen Z readiness.
Net Hires Shows The Difference Between Meeting Hiring Targets And Growing The Workforce
Corrian Nwankwo, Founder of CROWNE, draws on two decades in hospital HR to show how hiring and turnover data reveal where workforce losses begin.
Contingent Workforce Programs Overcome Resistance With Escalation Power From The Top
Contingent workforce leader Eric Osterhout says the software is rarely the problem with a broken program. Executive sponsorship and patience are what actually drive success.
How Compressing Training With AI Fills Seats Faster While True Expertise Still Requires Real-World Experience In The Role
Jason Bell, Business Analyst and Transformation Lead at Providence Health Plan, sat down and did his team's job himself. The number he came back with was hours, where the plan said weeks.
Spending More Time With Candidates Recovers The Signal AI-Polished Resumes Took Away
Andre Amyot, VP of Talent & Culture at Laurentide, explains why in-person meetings reveal what a polished application can hide.
Protecting the Budget for Flexible Talent Keeps Teams Ready When Workloads Spike
Amy Spencer, founder and Chief Matchmaker at Evo Communications, on blending permanent staff with vetted independents so a team can add depth without hiring year round.
The Resume Rewards Presentation. Better Hiring Rewards What Candidates Can Actually Do.
Susan Newman, Executive Director of school2life, on the upside of a hiring process built to surface what a candidate has actually done.
Stop Hiring for Experience. Start Building Knowledge the Business Can Scale.
David Jacobs of Industrial Solutions Network explains why hiring, training and retention all depend on making expertise transferable.
Hiring Has a Signal Problem. That's Why Criteria Is Launching 'Talent Signal News'
Talent Signal News is Criteria's newsroom, and it does not cover Criteria. Here's what we're building, who pays for it, and what we owe the people reading it.
When The Job Keeps Changing, Adaptability Becomes The Signal That Holds
Josh Millet, founder and CEO of Criteria, makes the case for hiring on durable skills and growth trajectory over static credentials and gut-feel rapport.
Dropping Degree Requirements Changed Fewer Than One Hire in 700
Johnny C. Taylor Jr., President and CEO of SHRM, argues the skills-first movement stalled because employers dropped the degree requirement without building a structured way to measure skill, which sends hiring right back to the familiar resume.
The Hire Who Looked Perfect on Paper, and the Hole They Left in the Team
A résumé-clean, fast-tracked hire can still crater the team it joins. The bill that follows isn't the replacement cost everyone quotes. It's the good people who leave once the wrong hire is inside.
Skills-Based Hiring Won the Press Release But Got Lost the Shuffle
The skills-first movement won the press cycle, but funnel data shows most employers replaced the diploma with proxies that select the same people.
The Best Hiring Decisions Happen Before the First Candidate Applies
Bad hires get blamed on moving too fast. Scott Bonacorsi, chief people officer at Rehmann, argues the real failure comes earlier: posting a role no one agreed on how to judge.