Field notes on AI screening and high-volume hiring
How AI screening actually works in production: resume scoring, voice interviews, and high-volume hiring, written from live pilots.
Manufacturing's 40-45% Attrition Nobody Screens For
Manufacturing hiring in India is surging, but shop-floor attrition is running 40-45% in several clusters. Most of that gets treated as a wage problem.
India's Hotels Need 150,000 Workers. Most Are Talk Jobs.
India's hospitality sector needs 100,000-150,000 skilled workers a year through 2029, against roughly 12,600 formal training seats.
Ontario's AI Hiring Law Has No Definitions Yet
Ontario now requires employers to disclose AI use in job postings, but never defines screen, assess or select. What that ambiguity means.
Candidates Don't Apply on a 9-to-5 Schedule
A recruiting team works business hours. The candidates you most need to screen fast — shift workers, tier-2 freshers — mostly are not free then.
Last Festive Hiring Surge Was 25%. This One's Bigger.
Adecco India clocked festive gig and logistics hiring up 25% last season, with delivery roles up 35-40%, and forecast another 18-20% growth ahead.
For BPO Hiring, the Voice Screen Is the Job Test
In most hiring a voice interview stands in for judgment about a candidate. In BPO hiring it is the job, which changes how screening should work.
India's Gig Hiring Surge Is About to Hit a Wall
India's gig and quick-commerce workforce adds roughly a million workers in 2026 — the same application flood campus hiring already solved for.
New Jersey: Your Old Discrimination Law Already Applies
New Jersey's AG guidance says the state's 80-year-old anti-discrimination law already covers algorithmic hiring tools — no new statute needed.
UK Regulator: 'Rubber Stamp' Reviews Aren't Oversight
The ICO reviewed 30+ UK employers' AI hiring tools and found human review was often a rubber stamp, not a real check. What counts instead.
Naukri AI REX Explained: What It Does (and Its Limits)
What is Naukri AI REX? See how it automates candidate sourcing, where it falls short for high-volume hiring, and how AI screening fills the gap.
No Federal AI Hiring Law, Four State Theories
The US has no federal AI hiring law in 2026 — the EEOC pulled its guidance in Jan 2025. Four states filled the gap with four different legal theories.
New York's AI Labor Law Tests If You Can Explain Hiring
New York's AI Labor Information Act does not regulate disclosure. It requires employers to report annually how AI changed who actually got hired.