A business consultant recounts advising a company that kept adding staff and creating new roles to offset the disruption caused by one employee whose poor behavior drove colleagues away, rather than directly addressing her conduct. Despite multiple rounds of hiring, the underlying tension never eased, prompting leadership to eventually question why headcount growth wasn't solving the problem. The consultant concludes the company's issue was accountability, not staffing levels.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-19
A new survey finds that 86% of job candidates report having come across job postings they suspected were not tied to any actual open position. These 'ghost jobs' appear live on job boards despite the role not actively being filled, leaving many applicants submitting resumes into a void.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-19
In an opinion piece for Entrepreneur, the founder of Infragistics describes how he grew the company from a 10-person startup to a global organization with hundreds of employees across six countries. He argues that founders must make three changes to scale successfully: stop being the sole decision-maker, hire people who want to learn rather than just execute, and give employees enough trust to take initiative.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-17
Satirical creator Graham Zip posted a YouTube video in which he had a personal AI chatbot named Victor join him on a video call with an employer's AI interviewer. The two AI systems repeatedly talked over each other and exaggerated Graham's qualifications, prompting him to interrupt and correct his own bot's claims about his job title.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-17
A dossier compiled by search firm Korn Ferry, made public through unsealing, outlines how recruiters evaluate candidates for top NFL jobs. The document reportedly includes candid and controversial assessments of contenders.
wsj.com
· 2026-10-16
A new KPMG survey of CEOs at major U.S. corporations found that 89% expect to increase overall headcount over the next three years, even as their companies adopt artificial intelligence. The survey suggests executives are treating AI more as a tool to integrate into existing workflows than as a straightforward way to cut staff costs.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-15
A Nature reader column features an anonymous academic with over two decades of engineering research experience in Latin America, who reports repeated rejection from faculty positions in North America and Europe. A colleague who served on a hiring committee told the applicant that the deciding factor was the lack of principal-investigator grants from the destination country's national funding system, despite strong scientific credentials. Experts including ecologist César Marín and MetaDocencia co-director Laura Ación respond, confirming that national funding experience often functions as an unofficial hiring criterion.
nature.com
· 2026-10-14
A federal judge ruled that Apple can obtain expedited access to OpenAI's interview materials for former Apple employees who applied to its consumer hardware and robotics teams. OpenAI must turn over already-collected documents within five days and remaining materials within 14 days. The judge also granted Apple access to private LINE messages between individuals named in the case, though he denied some of Apple's other document requests.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-13
Kickresume analyzed nearly 97,000 Indeed listings across six industries for signs of so-called ghost jobs—postings companies never intend to fill. It found 36% of U.S. listings, and 43% in tech, had been live for more than 30 days, while exact reposts and 'urgent hiring' ads without deadlines each made up just 0.1% of postings.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-13
New data indicates that the long-running growth in college administrative staffing may be reversing. At Louisiana State University, an incoming president announced the layoff of 25 administrators, some in senior roles, redirecting the resulting savings toward faculty hiring and research.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-13
An Entrepreneur contributor argues many startups make a hiring mistake that resembles success: bringing in a senior marketing leader before the company has the infrastructure to support them. The piece contrasts this with WHOOP's July hire of ex-Nike CMO Dirk-Jan van Hameren, who joined a company already at a $10.1 billion valuation with 3 million members, cash-flow positive, and a 65-person marketing team already built.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-12
Indeed Hiring Lab data shows U.S. software-development job postings have risen nearly 15% since February 2025, even as overall job postings declined and AI tools write an increasing share of code. GitHub reported that AI agents are now involved in one in three pull requests, up from fewer than one in ten a year earlier.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-11
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