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From the research desk.
Research notes on the talent market, recruiting technology, and AI in hiring. The open companion to AIRecruiter.co's reports and market maps, with a verifiable source under every number.
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Skills-Based Hiring: The 2026 Operator Playbook
Roughly 70 to 85 percent of employers claim skills-based hiring, but fewer than 1 in 700 hires were actually affected. A first-principles operator guide.
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Pay Transparency and Comp Intelligence 2026
The EU Pay Transparency Directive just flipped two hiring norms at once. A first-principles guide to the comp-intelligence stack it forces on every employer.
Jul 13, 202660 min read
Agentic AI Recruiters: The 2026 Deep Guide
A first-principles guide to autonomous AI recruiting agents in 2026: what they actually automate, the real players and funding, honest ROI, and where they break.
Jul 13, 202660 min read
Hiring Fraud and the Verification Stack 2026
Hiring became a security problem in 2026. Inside the deepfake threat, the DPRK IT-worker pipeline, and the identity verification stack built in one quarter.
Jun 15, 202667 min read
The Entry-Level Hiring Collapse: AI and 2026
Entry-level hiring did not collapse uniformly in 2026. It split along an AI-exposure seam. A first-principles guide to the data, mechanism, and playbook.
Jun 15, 202664 min read
AI Hiring Liability After Mobley v. Workday
Mobley v. Workday turns thousands of employer defendants into one nationwide vendor. How AI hiring liability migrated from buyer to builder, and what to do.
Jun 15, 202668 min read
The Talent Acquisition Tech Market Map: 2026
A research-grade map of the recruiting technology landscape across ten categories, the consolidation wave reshaping it, the funding behind it, and a framework buyers can use to navigate it without overpaying or overbuying.
Jun 1, 202650 min read
The State of AI in Recruiting: 2026
AI adoption in recruiting nearly doubled in a year, with 43% of organizations now using it and 52% of talent leaders planning to add autonomous agents. This is a data-driven look at what is working, what is hype, and what talent leaders should do next.
Jun 1, 202650 min read
Staffing and Agency Tech: 2026 Outlook
How staffing firms and recruiting agencies are adopting AI, and where contingent demand is shifting.
May 21, 202647 min read
The Sourcing Tools Landscape: 2026 Buyer Guide
A side-by-side analysis of sourcing and candidate-discovery platforms, with selection criteria for in-house and agency teams.
May 14, 202654 min read
Interview Intelligence: Category Deep Dive
A deep dive on the fastest-consolidating assessment category and what it means for interview quality and fairness.
May 7, 202646 min read
Hiring Effort Benchmarks by Function
Interview load, time to fill, and applications per hire across engineering, product, data, sales, and support.
Apr 30, 202647 min read
ATS Market Structure and Buyer Sentiment 2026
The leaders, the challengers, and the consolidation reshaping the applicant-tracking system market.
Mar 30, 202647 min read
Talent Marketplaces and AI-Native Hiring: Sizing to 2028
Market sizing and a forecast for freelance, contingent, employer-of-record, and AI-data-labor platforms.
Mar 12, 202646 min read