by Doug Patten | 2026-01-25 | HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
Even as overall hiring cools, one area of the labor market continues to grow quietly but steadily: contingent and project-based work. Across industries, small and mid-sized businesses are increasingly turning to freelancers, contractors, and part-time specialists to...
by Doug Patten | 2025-11-02 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition, Training
For years, artificial intelligence has promised to revolutionize workplace productivity, but for most small and mid-sized businesses, that revolution felt perpetually out of reach. Enterprise-grade AI tools carried enterprise-grade price tags. System integrations...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-26 | Compliance, Generative AI, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
Every HR leader knows the frustration of a broken promise in technology. Applicant Tracking Systems were supposed to revolutionize recruitment and save time, improve candidate quality, and making hiring decisions smarter and more objective. Instead, for many...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-19 | Compliance, HR, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
For most small and mid-sized businesses, recruiting represents a perpetual tension between urgency and capacity. A single open role can consume an entire HR team’s week – manually reviewing résumés, coordinating interview schedules, generating compliant...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-12 | HR, products, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
It’s late Friday afternoon, and your HR manager is still wading through hundreds of résumés while juggling onboarding tasks, policy questions, and compliance deadlines. For many small and mid-sized businesses, that scene represents an all-too-familiar drain on...
by Doug Patten | 2025-10-07 | Compliance, HR, overview, Recruitment, SMBs, Talent Acquisition
AI in the workplace has evolved from a futuristic concept to an everyday operational reality. But for small and medium-sized business leaders evaluating whether to adopt AI assistants, two fundamental questions still dominate the conversation: Can AI be trusted to...
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