Talent Insights

Today we met with Michelle Yu, the co-founder and CEO of Josie. We talked about her journey from management consulting to starting her own business, the ups and downs of parenting while working, and everything in between. Michelle shares how her own experience as a working parent inspired Josie, what she's learned from supporting other working parents, and why managers play such an important role during major life transitions. We also get into setting boundaries, building a strong support system, navigating the constant pivots of entrepreneurship, and finding ways to balance the demands of work and family.

What happens when both sides of the hiring process suddenly have AI?

Recruiters can source faster, research faster, and create content faster.

Candidates can optimize resumes, prepare interview answers, and apply to more jobs than ever.

So where does that leave the actual human part of recruiting?

The newest episode of Beyond the Offer is live, and Brittany Keller of Sphera joins Bill Gates and Rosanna Snediker to get into exactly that.

Brittany shares why her team still relies heavily on direct outreach, why relationships built years ago can turn into hires today, what she looks for when building recruiting teams, and why senior level hiring still requires real conversations with real people.

AI is useful. Judgment, adaptability, and relationships are still doing a lot of the heavy lifting.

In this episode of Stacked, Mark sits down with Phil Muldoon to talk about how Hirewell is helping private equity firms and their portfolio companies build more flexible, scalable hiring models.

They dig into why traditional one-off searches are not enough for PE-backed growth, how recruiting as a service creates consistency across portcos, and why specialized recruiting teams can improve both the hiring process and the candidate experience.

From standardized scorecards and ATS workflows to cost structure, delivery models, and long-term talent strategy, this episode breaks down what PE firms need from a modern recruiting partner.

This week, Sarah Sheridan talks with Lewis Krell from Happiest Baby, the company behind SNOO, to talk about sleep deprivation, employee benefits, paternity leave, and why the newborn stage is not just a home issue. It is a workplace issue too.

Because when parents come back exhausted, that shows up everywhere.

In retention. In burnout. In performance. In whether they feel supported enough to stay.

Industrial hiring is a different animal.

In this episode, Charlie Safro, Jeff Smith, and Shannon DiBenedetto dig into what companies get wrong when hiring for frontline, skilled trades, manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain roles.

They cover why internal teams get overwhelmed, why job postings alone are not enough, how hiring events can either crush or completely miss, and why temp labor can quietly become a very expensive Band-Aid.

They also talk through what the CS Recruiting and Hirewell partnership now makes possible: deeper industrial expertise, broader recruiting support, and a more flexible way to solve workforce problems across the business.

AI is changing tech hiring, but the job titles are still catching up.

AI engineer. AI agent engineer. Machine learning engineer. Data scientist. Forward deployed engineer.

Some of these roles are new. Some are old roles with new tools. And some get used interchangeably even when they should not.

In this episode of Stacked: Tech Hiring Insights, Matt Mulcahy breaks down what these AI and engineering roles actually mean, how companies are hiring for them, and where the market is headed.

Most hiring conversations focus on filling open roles.

This episode focuses on what happens after the hire is made.

Bill Gates and Rosanna Snediker sit down with Pat Sullivan, CFO of A-Rent Test Equipment , to talk about hiring inside growth-stage companies and why so many scaling problems actually trace back to people decisions.

The conversation gets into:

• hiring for adaptability instead of perfect experience

• the operational drag caused by bad hires

• why "my team feels busy" is not a hiring strategy

• how finance and HR should think about headcount together

• what scalable teams actually look like behind the scenes

A really solid conversation for leaders trying to grow without creating chaos in the process.

Watch it here: https://talentinsights.hirewell.com/topics/beyond-the-offer

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Hiring demand is back. But the playbook changed.

Companies still need talent. They just don't want to overhire, lay people off, and do it all over again.

So what are they doing instead?

In this episode of Stacked, we break down:

• The real reason RPO demand is gaining serious momentum again

• When to build internal TA vs bring in outside help

• Why AI is flooding pipelines with more noise, not better candidates

• How to actually build a hiring strategy that flexes with your business

If your hiring plans for 2026 feel uncertain, start here.

In this episode of Beyond the Offer, Penny Vamvakaris, Head of Talent Acquisition, North America at Weber Shandwick, breaks down what it really takes to build recruiting inside a performance-driven agency. From aligning hiring to revenue and future capability to using AI without losing judgment, Penny shares hard-earned lessons from 25+ years in consulting, startups, and global agencies. If you want recruiting to operate as a true business function, this conversation delivers.

AI isn't just changing how companies build.

It's changing who gets hired.

We're seeing a spike in fake candidates, AI-polished résumés, and hiring teams buried in noise. At the same time, demand for embedded RPO support is climbing fast.

In this episode, Matt Massucci and Mark Slocum talk about:

• Why community is a competitive edge again
• How curated founder and CIO events are driving real conversations
• What companies must do to separate signal from chaos

If you're hiring in tech right now, this one's for you.