Smarter by the Minute

Most JDs are historical artifacts dressed up as hiring tools. Someone leaves, you dust off their description, tweak a few bullets, and post. I've seen the same job description recycled across three companies over twenty years. Same role. Different decade. Here's the downstream damage: your sourcing targets the wrong profile. Your screening filters out the right candidates. Your interview questions...

Every candidate you’re interviewing has been coached by ChatGPT. That changes everything about how you should be interviewing. Is your process still giving you signal — or just measuring AI prep quality? Here’s the uncomfortable reality: behavioral interview frameworks like STAR were designed for a world where candidates answered off the cuff. That world no longer exists.   Most candidates heading...

The conversation discusses the impact of toxic team members on company culture and the interviewing process. It also introduces an interview question to identify ownership and blame-shifting tendencies in candidates. Takeaways Toxic team members externalize blame, while owners internalize and take ownership. Interview question: Tell me about a time a project didn't go as planned. Listen for I vs....

According to research, the average knowledge worker saves 12 articles per week but reads fewer than 2. If you're a senior leader, that ratio is even worse. You're triaging constantly—meetings, decisions, fires to put out. Deep reading time? It's the first thing to go. But staying current in your field isn't optional. The executive who falls behind on industry trends, competitor moves, and emerging...