June 8-14, 2026:
• Focusing on the wrong people: Fast Company offers “The talent war we aren’t prepared for”;
• Using job sites for a different kind of recruiting: U.S. and intelligence allies warn about China;
• Resetting the value prop: LaRocque says “The Job Board isn’t Dead. The Business Model is”;
• Drinking from a fire hydrant: Greenhouse finds recruiter headcount down, workload way up;
• Putting the kibosh on fraudulent job ads: New York passes a bill aimed at halting ‘ghost jobs’.
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Today’s companies are hiring for the wrong skills. The conversation about AI talent focuses on engineers, data scientists, and machine learning specialists. Those roles matter, but they aren’t where the real shortage will hit. The scarcest talent in an AI-driven economy will be humans who can lead digital workers. Let me say it again: It’s not enough to just build digital workers. We need human workers to lead them, and almost no one is recruiting for that role.
The United States and other nations in the Five Eyes intelligence partnership on Wednesday took the unusual step of issuing a joint warning that China is using LinkedIn and other job platforms to pry secret information from security professionals worldwide.
For years, job board marketplaces topped every capital flow ranking in the WorkTech dataset. Then the market shifted. Now it is moving fast. Where the gravity has gone, and what CHROs, Talent Acquisition Leaders, investors, and platforms need to do about it, starts here. Job boards are not dead yet. But the model underneath them is dying, and the CHROs, Talent Acquisition Leaders, investors, and platforms still allocating spend the old way are paying for a vehicle that is losing value every quarter.
Recruiter headcount is down 56%. Hires per recruiter are up 122%. Let that sit for a second. Fewer recruiters doing 122% more hiring. And somewhere in a leadership meeting this quarter, someone is looking at that number and calling it a win. Chris Farr regarding (Greenhouse 2026 Hiring Benchmarks — https://lnkd.in/eF6R-hpZ )
A bill passed June 2 by New York state lawmakers aims to crack down on “ghost jobs” — jobs that don’t exist or aren’t intended to be filled — by requiring employers with 100 or more employees and third-party job posting platforms to disclose if, and when, hiring is expected.
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