The AI Boomerang
By Brett Dyess
There's an interesting trend emerging in the AI economy. Companies invest in artificial intelligence to automate work, eliminate positions, and improve productivity. Then something unexpected happens.
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Featured in Talent Signal: AI and the Human Side of Recruiting
By Brett Dyess
Talent Signal recently featured my perspective on AI in recruiting and the independent workflows I’ve been building and testing.
Read the essayThe Future of Recruiting Isn't Another AI Tool. It's a Different Way of Working.
By Brett Dyess
Oracle, Cielo and Dayforce point toward a different recruiting operating model—one that connects intelligence, AI workflows, human judgment and accountable action.
Read the essayTalent Advisor 2.0
By Brett Dyess
The requisition may be the last talent signal you see. Talent Advisor 2.0 connects business signals, recruiting conversations and human judgment to earlier workforce decisions.
Read the essayThe Future of Workforce Planning Isn’t Headcount. It’s Orchestration.
By Brett Dyess
For decades, workforce planning has started with a simple question: how many people do we need? As work is increasingly performed by a mix of employees, AI agents, automation, and external partners, the better starting point may become what work needs to happen.
Read the essay89% of CEOs Expect to Hire More People. So Why Is Everyone Talking About AI Replacing Jobs?
By Brett Dyess
KPMG’s 2026 U.S. CEO Outlook found 89% of surveyed CEOs expect to grow headcount over the next three years — while redesigning roles for human-AI collaboration. The story is more complicated than “AI is taking jobs.”
Read the essayWhat I Did With My Sourcing Agent Today
By Brett Dyess
Today I gave my sourcing agent a real recruiting problem. From job description to a completed candidate slate and email ready to send: 14 minutes.
Read the essayYour AI Agent Has a Job Description. Does It Have a Supervisor?
By Brett Dyess
As AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, an AI agent being capable of doing something does not mean it should have the authority to do it.
Read the essayGoogle Gave Its AI an Email Address. Jarvina Already Had One.
By Brett Dyess
Google announced AI coworker agents with their own email addresses. I gave Jarvina an inbox last week. The timing made me laugh. The implications for work deserve a closer look.
Read the essayThe ATS Has the Record. But Does It Have the Conversation?
By Brett Dyess
I’ve used Google Voice for recruiting calls and texts for about fifteen years. The more interesting question is where the candidate conversation lives.
Read the essayThe Job Title May Be Losing Its Power in Hiring
By Brett Dyess
What if we’ve been searching for talent in the wrong order? Start with the work, look for capability, and use job titles as context.
Read the essayThe Application Funnel May Be Breaking
By Brett Dyess
The next recruiting breakthrough may be less about screening more applications and more about understanding capability before the funnel fills up.
Read the essayWhy Don’t You Have a Custom AI Yet? — Short Version
By Brett Dyess
Most people are still using AI like a chatbot. What happens when you stop starting over? The short take on building a custom AI — and seven levels of customization.
Read the essayWhy Don’t You Have a Custom AI Yet? — Long Version
By Brett Dyess
I use AI every day. But most people are still using it like a chatbot — and dramatically underestimating what happens when you start building your own AI.
Read the essayYour Workforce Is Bigger Than Your Org Chart
By Brett Dyess
The people who make a business strategy possible do not necessarily work for that business. Workforce planning needs to follow the capability beyond the org chart.
Read the essayThe Next AI Talent War May Be for Experts, Not Engineers.
By Brett Dyess
For years, the AI talent conversation has focused on the obvious people. The next AI talent shortage may have surprisingly little to do with building models.
Read the essayI Stopped Using AI Like a Chatbot. Everything Changed.
By Brett Dyess
For a while, I thought I was pretty good at using AI. Then I realized I was still treating one of the most transformative technologies I've encountered like a really sophisticated search box.
Read the essaySo Apparently AI Might Kill Us All.
By Brett Dyess
Apparently, I may have been thinking too small about AI, work, and the future of human civilization.
Read the essayAI Can Scale the Hiring Decision. It Can Also Scale the Mistake.
By Brett Dyess
One recruiter can mistakenly reject a qualified candidate. An algorithm can potentially make the same mistake thousands of times.
Read the essayShould We Hire the Skill — or Build It?
By Brett Dyess
When the business needs a new capability, do we need to hire it — or can we build it? AI is making that question increasingly important.
Read the essayThe Rise of the Talent Advisor in the Age of AI
By Brett Dyess
Recruiting's transactional model is disappearing. In the AI era, the recruiter is evolving into a Talent Advisor — part workforce strategist, part market analyst, part AI-enabled talent architect.
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