HireQwikField 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.
Candidates Are Ghosting Recruiters at Record Rates
Candidate ghosting is now a recognised hiring-research category. What campus-hiring completion data shows about keeping candidates in the process.
Texas Wrote the Anti-Illinois AI Hiring Law
TRAIGA took effect January 1, 2026 with no AI-disclosure duty for private employers, the opposite of Illinois and Colorado.
Wipro Missed Its Fresher Target by 3,000 Seats
Wipro projected 10,000-12,000 freshers for FY26 and onboarded 7,500. The shortfall isn't a sourcing story. It's a screening-capacity story.
What an AI Voice Screen Actually Buys
A low price and good unit economics are not the same claim. Here is what a structured AI voice screen actually includes, and what it does not.
Why Your Phone Screen Can't Predict Performance
Unstructured phone screens predict job performance at r=.38. Structured ones hit r=.51. Here's what that gap means for hiring at scale.
California's AI Hiring Rules Have Been Live Since Oct
California's FEHA rules on automated hiring took effect October 2025: four-year retention, bias testing, and vendor liability that never shifts.
The 18-Hour Phone Screen: Where Recruiter Time Goes
18 hours to screen 3,000 campus applicants sounds like a scheduling problem. It is a math problem, and most of those hours are not evaluating.
Campus Hiring Starts With the July NQT, Not September
TCS NQT's July 2026 cycle closes July 19 and feeds 4,000+ companies' pipelines before September's official campus season even opens.
NYC's AI Hiring Law Isn't Being Enforced. That's Worse.
A December 2025 New York State Comptroller audit found NYC flagged just 1 compliance issue across 32 companies where independent auditors found 17.
The Real Cost of a Screening Bottleneck Is Turnover
HR leaders track time-to-hire when screening backs up. The number that actually predicts damage is how many recruiters quit the TA team within a year.
Voice AI Screening Isn't Just a Fresher-Hiring Tool
AI voice screening gets pitched as a campus-hiring fix.
Colorado Delayed Its AI Hiring Law Twice. Don't Wait.
Colorado's AI Act is delayed to January 2027 with a narrower scope. For Indian teams serving US clients, the slipping timeline is not the signal.