Notes on hiring tech, HR strategy, and the future of work.
Weekly. From practitioners. No SEO listicles, no AI-generated filler, no quoted "thought leaders" you have to Google.
Source Unlimited is now SourceHire
When we started Source Unlimited, the name described the ambition: limit nothing about who gets seen. Two years in, the team uses that ambition to mean something narrower and sharper — sourcing, but done in a way that respects the human on the other side.
- AIEthics
AI in hiring: the 2026 line between helpful and creepy
There is a version of AI-assisted hiring that helps both sides — speeds up the boring parts, surfaces qualified people who would have gone unseen, and gives candidates faster, fairer answers. There is also a version that scrapes social media for vibes and rejects you because of a sentence in your cover letter. Same technology, different choices.
Apr 18, 20269 min - ReskillingResourcesCandidates
Free career-reskilling resources, 2026 edition
Every week recruiters tell us the gap between the candidates they meet and the work they need done is widening. Every week candidates tell us they'd learn the missing thing if they knew which thing to learn. So here is the working list, refreshed for 2026, of the free programs we trust.
Apr 15, 202611 min - HRLeadership
Why HR is the most strategic function of 2026
For thirty years, HR was treated as a back-office function — payroll, compliance, the people you call when something's gone wrong. In 2026, that arrangement is breaking. Here's why, and what the smartest companies are doing about it.
Apr 8, 20268 min - ATSProduct
The post-resume ATS
A candidate sent us a perfectly-tailored resume in October — every bullet point keyword-matched to the JD, the formatting was clean, the experience read coherently. They had used an AI rewriter. So had the next 200 candidates.
Apr 1, 20267 min - CompensationCompliance
Pay transparency: the cost of not posting the range
There is a recruiting team somewhere right now arguing about whether to post the salary range. The argument is over. The data has been clear for two years.
Mar 25, 20266 min - InterviewsProcess
Asynchronous interviewing, done right
Async interviewing was sold as the alternative to brutal scheduling cycles. In practice it often makes the experience worse — candidates record into the void, get no feedback, hear nothing for weeks. The good version is harder than the bad version. It is also better.
Mar 18, 20268 min - ProcessEquity
Skills-based hiring (finally, actually) works
The skills-based-hiring movement spent three years as a deck and a slogan. Then a few large employers actually did it. The retention numbers are in.
Mar 11, 20267 min - RetentionProcess
Internal mobility: the cheapest senior hire you already have
External senior hires fail at the highest rate of any kind of hiring — somewhere between 40 and 60 percent depending on whose data you trust. Internal moves succeed at twice the rate. The math is uncomfortable for retained-search firms but unambiguous for everyone else.
Mar 4, 20266 min - CandidatesBrand
Candidate experience is not a nice-to-have
A candidate who has a bad experience tells eleven people, on average. A candidate who is rejected gracefully often tells more. Brand is built mostly by the people you don't hire.
Feb 25, 20265 min
