by Doug Patten | 2025-09-21 | Compliance, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
The announcement hit mid-sized tech companies like a seismic shift: a one-time $100,000 fee per new H-1B petition. For businesses that have relied on international talent to fuel growth and innovation, this represents far more than a simple fee increase –...
by Doug Patten | 2025-08-24 | Compliance, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
A fast-rising wave of state and local policy is reshaping how organizations use AI in people decisions, and small to medium-sized businesses need to pay attention now. California’s proposed “No Robo Bosses Act” (SB 7) would curb over-reliance on...
by Doug Patten | 2025-08-17 | Enterprise Solutions, Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
If it feels like work has gotten messier, you’re not imagining it. Most companies – especially small and mid-sized ones – are juggling higher customer expectations, tighter budgets, and a nonstop stream of “must-do” tasks that crowd out real progress. The...
by Doug Patten | 2025-08-10 | Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs
The conversation around AI in HR often gets stuck in a false choice — replace people with machines or risk falling behind. But that framing misses a critical reality: the organizations seeing the biggest long-term benefits aren’t automating humans out of the...
by Doug Patten | 2025-08-04 | Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
In today’s labor-tight, regulation-heavy, and resource-constrained environment, organizations — especially small and mid-sized ones — are being asked to do more with less. Nowhere is this reality more crushing than in HR departments, where one or two people are...
by Doug Patten | 2025-07-06 | Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
Your HR team just wrapped up another exhausting week of screening candidates. Between the 200 applications for that marketing role and the dozens of phone interviews, you’re feeling cautiously optimistic about a few promising prospects. But here’s a...
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