Hey everyone, I hope your week is amazing—or at least good. It's Wednesday, and here I am with the 15th issue of this newsletter. In the next few weeks, my focus will be on creating content for my Excel for HR course. I hope to launch it this year. If you want to join the waiting list, subscribe here: excelforhr.com.
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Here are some of the best links I read in the last week:
#FAVORITES
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025) - great resource for sourcers/recruiters looking for technical people
Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?
Apple shareholders just rejected a proposal to end DEI efforts -- comments
The Job Market Is Frozen (theatlantic.com) -- comments
The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office -- comments
“I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, wrote in a memo. He added that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.” -- comments
The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay (thetimes.com) -- comments
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working (economist.com) -- comments
Gen Zs Are Sharing Why They're Ghosting Job Offers, and It's Eye-Opening -- comments
#HACKERNEWS
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025)
India: A billion people have no real money to spend, says report (bbc.com) -- comments
2025 Hiring Pause (cornell.edu) -- comments
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office (twitter.com/ethanevansvp) -- comments
Ask HN: Are you a 40-year old software engineer without a job for > 1 year?
Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees (techcrunch.com) -- comments
The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here (manidoraisamy.com) -- comments
AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data (elenaverna.com) -- comments
I'm starting to suspect my work is incompatible with a full-time academic job (humprog.org) -- comments
Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?
Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US (bloomberg.com) -- comments
Economic and Market Data Signal a Recession Is Coming (forbes.com/sites/mayrarodriguezvalladare...) -- comments
MBA grads struggling to find work -- comments
This is our job market folks… [n/a] -- /r/humanresources/
Delivering layoff message has got to be the worst part of my job. Is this something you eventually get used to? [N/A] -- /r/humanresources/
HR employee complaining about his own comp when other employees get increases [N/A] -- /r/humanresources/
Boss wants AI in HR [N/A] -- /r/humanresources/
Candidate quit within the first week -- /r/recruiting/
Any other recruiting technology folks in here? -- /r/recruiting/
3 days in to doing sales instead of recruiting, and I’m happier with my job now than I have been in years. -- /r/recruiting/
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