Stories, insights, and investigations into the hiring practices that leave candidates in the dark.
Microsoft retired Skype and moved its users to Teams. LinkedIn is thriving as a business — but the Skype playbook suggests a successful acquisition can still become a worse product. The question is whether a professional network can decay under good management.
I joined Mark Lane on the Ghosted by the Machine podcast to discuss the growing disconnect between hiring systems and the people forced to navigate them — and why silence has become normalized.
A surprising number of jobs on LinkedIn aren't taking you to the employer. They're taking you somewhere else. And it's worth asking why.
Today's hiring infrastructure supports a peculiar equilibrium. Employers fund repeated job promotion to cut through overwhelming applicant volume, while candidates pay for visibility and signals that promise relevance.
If you've spent any time job hunting on LinkedIn lately, you've probably scrolled past the exact same job again and wondered: is this really a new role? We've taken it upon ourselves to dig into what's really going on, and we'd like to share what we've learned with you.
Ontario has introduced something pretty remarkable in 2026. New anti-ghosting hiring rules that require many employers to actually close the loop with candidates they've interviewed. Interview a human → tell them the outcome → within a defined time frame → and prove you did it.
