Hiring

From waving at your webcam to proving your IP address matches your resume, job interviewers are running a whole new kind of background check.

Companies that hire and develop systems thinkers will build stronger workflows, create more leverage and raise the standard for performance.

Plus: 10 rules for employees who are also relatives

A new study analyzed 9,700 resumes and found one type of skill correlated with a higher rate of hire.

You don't have a hiring problem. You have a labor allocation problem.

Amazon says they were just hiring some talented execs. Warner Bros. Discovery hired lawyers.

You didn't hire the wrong person because you're a bad judge of character. You hired them because you gave yourself nothing to judge against.

Think an AI algorithms automatically reject resumes? The real reason candidates are going invisible in modern hiring is much worse, and it’s entirely within an employer's control to fix.

Hiring managers look beyond resumes and cover letters when hiring freelancers.

Most companies are still hiring for yesterday's skills. Here's what they should be screening for instead.

Italian startup Bending Spoons received 800,000 job applications last year. It hired only 286 people.

Research shows that AI startups are forming smaller teams with less hierarchy.

Here's how to find the talent that puts your company over the top.

Here's why revenue teams need a "Marketing Engineer" — a systems designer who orchestrates agentic AI workflows — and how to hire and structure the role.

A new Federal Reserve study finds that one factor is hurting young workers more than AI.

The best hires aren't the ones with the most impressive credentials — they're the ones who move toward hard problems, own real outcomes, and are honest about being wrong fast enough to fix it.

Most companies respond to slowing growth by hiring, but the real constraint is often hiding elsewhere in the business.

Founders often focus on product and fundraising, but long-term companies are built by putting the right people in the right roles and addressing misalignment early.

AI tools can speed up processes, but the trick is to hire people who are willing to oversee their output, rather than cede control.

Growing a bootstrapped business offers maximum independence, but it comes with a unique set of challenges. Here are three strategies to overcome them.

Here's why your startup's engineering gap is costing you more than you think.