This week on TRF we cover:

• Will resumes disappear in the next 5 years? Shelley is confident they will, Serge sees things differently.

• No FOMO here. As our friends all head to the land of bedbugs and baguettes, we are kind of glad we didn't go to Unleash World in Paris.

In the News

• LinkedIn does some right sizing with laying off 668 positions, including more in talent acquisition. 

• Stack Overflow hired too many sales people with no direction, at least thats our conclusion with their lay off announcement.

• AI for headshot, the jury is out.

Tip of The Week

• Book recommendations: The Talent Fix by Tim Sackett, Hiring Humans by Craig Fisher, Full Stack Recruiter by Jan Tegze and our all time favorite The Robot Proof Recruiter by Katrina Collier.

Recruiting Insights

• By the year 2030 staffing agencies are expected to increase their market size by 12.7%, doing the math, thats $1778.29 Billion. Let’s unpack how and why that might be.

• Moonhub’s claim of 1 billion public profiles sounds a bit of an exaggeration. We’d like a demo please!

• Candidate experience platforms seem a bit optimistic when their success is hinged on hiring managers are tasked with designing the experience. A chatbot wont solve the problem!

• When designing your campus recruitment program get clarity on what new grads say they ideally want vs what they end up accepting as their first job out of school.