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Leigh Daniels - our AI Community Assistant - has been hanging around CXR for a while now, learning about our Community and helping members track down the resources and answers to key challenges. Last month, we decided it was time to put them in the spotlight and give them a little more personality. You voted and weighed in on what Leigh should sound like and look like. Some of us even wondered how Leigh might fit in at a Community Dinner with a nice glass of wine (no promises on that one). We're not sharing everything yet, but one choice came through loud and clear: Leigh's voice and tone. Most of you blended options rather than picking just one, and the Community ...

by Mark Feffer DISCLOSURE: The views or comments shared by Mark Feffer within this headline reflect their own experience and opinion. Several startups and community organizations in the U.S. have launched job boards specifically targeting laid-off workers. Many of them are doing more than targeting a particular group of candidates by combining functions that have traditionally been separated, including direct-from-employer listings, continuous vacancy monitoring, application management, referrals and community support. The latest example is Orlando, Fla.-based JobBeacon , which describes itself as a free service helping laid-off workers organize their ...

Who in Your Network Belongs Here? In a world that celebrates independence and self-building, life can start to feel lonely. It's hard to do life alone, so we build in support systems everywhere else; family, friend groups, neighborhoods, teams. Why do we so often treat work like it's supposed to be a solo act? It isn't, and it was never supposed to be. That's the idea behind our referral campaign, and honestly, it's the idea behind CXR itself. The Pull Towards "Your People" There's a specific feeling when you find a group where you fit in. Where the way you think, work, and show up actually makes sense to the people around you. That feeling ...

For the last week of the panel, I asked everyone to show their receipts. What have you actually changed in the last year because of fraud risk, what did it cost you, and what would you tell a peer who hasn't made that move yet. A quick frame first, as we do, because this runs on our public site and not everyone reading it was inside the panel. CXR runs research panels a few times a year. Small group, closed forum, four weeks of structured async discussion on one topic, then a closing call. This one we've been working on is candidate fraud in hiring, with a couple dozen TA leaders and heads of talent in the room and a handful of identity and verification specialists ...

by Bill Boorman DISCLOSURE: The views or comments shared by Bill Boorman within this headline reflect their own experience and opinion. Ten U.S. states have begun designing the technology and procurement plans for publicly backed employment marketplaces combining verified candidate records, job-description generation and AI matching. An Aug. 20 update from the Connecting Talent to Opportunity Challenge said the state teams were mapping existing systems, identifying gaps and developing common approaches to privacy, governance and data exchange. The proposed marketplaces cover job discovery, candidate identity, skills verification and applications. They could ...

If you're trying to plan hiring for the rest of 2026, the second quarter didn't make it easy on you. The government's numbers looked soft. The actual demand employers are putting into the market looked fine, even good in places. AI is quietly rewriting which roles are worth opening. And pay transparency is spreading well beyond the states that actually require it. Here's what the data says, pulled from our own Q2 job posting data alongside the latest federal releases, so you can see how our numbers line up with the bigger picture. The payroll story keeps getting worse in the rearview mirror The headline number for June was weak: just 57,000 jobs added, ...

Same frame as the last two recaps before we get into it, because this is running on our public site and not everyone reading it is inside the panel. CXR runs research panels a few times a year that is run as a small group with a closed forum over several weeks of structured async discussion on one topic, then wrapped with a closing call. This one is on candidate fraud in hiring - roughly two dozen TA leaders and heads of talent, plus a handful of identity and verification specialists to keep us honest on the tech side. Co-facilitating with me is CXR member @Alex Murphy , CEO of JobSync, who has shaped the weekly prompts alongside me from the start. Full ...

Quality of Hire: A Short History of a Metric We Still Can't Agree On By Gerry Crispin I've told this joke before, so forgive me if you've heard it: Quality of Hire is a question that resurfaces every two years like clockwork, roughly on schedule since the dawn of time – or at least since Frederick Winslow Taylor published The Principles of Scientific Management in 1912 and gave us the first serious argument that hiring the right person for the right task was a measurable, engineerable problem. Taylor was talking about pig iron and shovels. We're still arguing about the same basic question 114 years later, just with better shovels. I want to walk through ...

Same frame as last time before we get into it, because this is running on our public site and not everyone reading it is inside the panel. CXR runs research panels a few times a year. Small group, closed forum, several weeks of structured async discussion on one topic, then a closing call. This one is on candidate fraud in hiring - roughly two dozen TA leaders and heads of talent, plus a handful of identity and verification specialists to keep us honest on the tech side. Co-facilitating with me is CXR member @Alex Murphy , CEO of JobSync, and his fingerprints are on this week's prompts as much as mine. Full disclosure, same as always: Alex and JobSync helped ...