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When Recruiters Themselves Become the Bias Factor – Gender Effects in Hiring
End at the door: Biased Recruiter. Recruiting presents numerous challenges, including talent shortages, rising candidate expectations,...
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Oct 5, 20253 min read
Portfolio Careers on the Rise: How This Is Changing the Job Search
For decades, a career meant completing an apprenticeship or degree, joining a company, advancing for years, and eventually retiring. That...
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Oct 4, 20254 min read
ATS Market 2025: The SAP-SmartRecruiters deal is reshaping HR tech—here’s what recruiters in small and mid-sized companies need to know.
In August 2025, SAP acquired SmartRecruiters, marking a significant disruption in the HR tech market. For many DACH companies, the ATS...
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Oct 1, 20253 min read
Leading with Confidence in Crisis: Why Empathy and Decisiveness Are Essential Leadership Traits
The world reels from conflict, economies slide into turmoil, and the prevailing mood is one of tension. Uncertainty permeates every team...
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Sep 28, 20254 min read
Enough with the Perfect Smile: Why Transparency in Employer Branding Matters More than Polished Messages
Yes, every company claims to be amazing—offering fantastic work culture, outstanding training opportunities, and unbeatable working...
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Sep 26, 20254 min read
AI in Recruiting: Minimizing Bias with the Right Preparation
AI in recruiting promises efficiency, better matching, and more transparency. But the algorithms often mirror hiring managers' biases,...
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Sep 26, 20253 min read
OpenAI’s Jobs Platform: How Jobseekers Can Prepare Today
he news spread quickly across HR media: OpenAI plans to launch its own jobs platform in 2026 – powered by AI-driven matching and...
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Sep 23, 20252 min read
OpenAI Jobs Platform: Challenge and Opportunity – How Companies Can Prepare Now
OpenAI’s announcement that it will launch its own jobs platform in 2026, complete with AI fluency certifications, raises pressing...
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Sep 21, 20254 min read
Gender Gap Beyond Pay: Men Use AI Job Tools More Often Than Women
When discussing gender inequality in the labor market, pay gaps often dominate the conversation. However, a new, quieter divide is...
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Sep 18, 20254 min read
AI beats Recruiters: Candidates prefer being interviewed by a robot.
Hard to take results of a study, published by the universities of Chicago and Rotterdam. I stumbled across it via a blog post at the...
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Sep 15, 20251 min read
A closer look: Lindy.ai – A Fast Track into AI for Job Seekers, Recruiters, and HR
Artificial Intelligence is transforming recruiting and HR at a rapid pace. Yet many tools remain siloed: one ATS here, an interview bot...
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Sep 12, 20253 min read
Quo Vadis Recruiting in the Age of AI? Will GPTs Soon Be Talking Only to Each Other?
The conversation around artificial intelligence is accelerating: automated résumé parsers, matching algorithms, chatbots, generative...
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Sep 11, 20254 min read
Recruiting: Everyone’s Hyping AI – But 9 Out of 10 Companies Don’t Even Have the Basics Right
Go to any HR conference today and you’ll hear about artificial intelligence in recruiting: resume-screening bots, predictive analytics,...
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Sep 9, 20254 min read
Recruiting in Times of Crisis: Why Now Is the Best Moment to Optimize Your Processes
The headlines are clear. Trump tariffs are disrupting global trade. W ar risks are heightening geopolitical uncertainty. Many companies...
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Sep 7, 20253 min read
Employer Branding in Times of Crisis: Essential or Expendable?
The headlines speak for themselves: renewed Trump tariffs are shaking global trade, war risks in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are...
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Sep 5, 20253 min read
"Beyond the Résumé" - State of Work Today - Podcast Appearance
Some weeks ago, I spoke with Tim Glowa, Host of the "State of Work Today" HR-Podcast and founder of HRbrain.ai , about why authenticity,...
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May 10, 20251 min read
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