Writing
- 15 October 2026
How would you know if a candidate can use AI?
Recruiters are starting to ask for AI skills. How do you assess them when they're self-taught, and who gets the chance to build them?
- 7 October 2026
The tutor that fixes the textbook
An afternoon building an AI tutor that fixes its own textbook got me thinking about onboarding, interviewer training, and what a business would need to get right before trying either.
- 28 September 2026
Why do you have AI?
A panel on hiring and AI, and a debate about existential risk in the same week, kept circling the same missing question: boards and companies can't always say why they have AI at all.
- 15 September 2026
The gap nobody is measuring
AI adoption is opening a gap inside organisations along lines of function and job type, and almost nobody is measuring it.
- 9 September 2026
Nobody was there
The first interview for a senior role was a video I recorded on my own. Three questions, three minutes each, and nobody on the other end.
- 1 September 2026
Two audiences, two objections
The textbook says secure sponsorship, then implement. Building a hiring function from almost nothing taught me it can run the other way round, and that the people using a service are never won over by the same evidence as the people paying for it.
- 25 August 2026
Still evaluating candidates
Hiring in 2026 still runs through the CV, even though applying has become almost free. Having spent five months on the applicant side of a process I used to design, I don't think the document is the problem.