David Pollard
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Joined November 2018
I have a pebble in my shoe. I have been unable to reconcile 4% Unemployment with 40MM citizens on SNAP food assistance.... Something ain't right and the numbers are not telling the whole story. A story nobody really wants to talk about. I wonder what the underemployment rate
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Saturday Morning Coffee..... Memo to Big Tech. The primary purpose for the formation of a company is to create jobs. To bring together smart and hard working people to solve serious problems facing humanity. The biggest problem facing humanity is the availability of work and
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It has never before in the history of the world been more important to buy and hire local.
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I think we can carry and process two thoughts at once related to A.I. adoption. It is very early so these somewhat half-baked arguments are subject to refinement over time, but..... Thought One: We can accept the fact that A.I. has already delivered amazing personal
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It is time to take Leaders at their word. Words like: "Let then eat cake" come to mind. More recently: Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic): “AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to 10–20% in the next one to five years.” Geoffrey
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If you are counting on the Enterprise for your career, you will be disappointed. Invest in you!
Recent Layoff Announcements: 1. UPS: 48,000 employees 2. Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees 3. Intel: 24,000 employees 4. Nestle: 16,000 employees 5. Accenture: 11,000 employees 6. Ford: 11,000 employees 7. Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees 8. Microsoft: 7,000 employees 9. PwC: 5,600
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I have two pieces of advice for Recruiters and Talent Acquisition Professionals. 1) Learn and optimize Outplacement and Offboarding Services. 2) Learn the Workflow of Work. Next Thursday, Nov. 6th at 1PM, we will dive into these pearls of wisdom as well as the Superworker
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Saturday Morning Coffee. Buy Local. Live Local. Hire Local. I have always considered these ideas impractical. I confused impractical with inconvenient. Given exploding concentrations of faraway power and business, I have done a 180 on this one and now feel that rallying cry to
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Amazon cutting 600k employees for automation. We are going to have no choice but to consider UBI. Which should make all Free Market zealots sick to their stomach. Like I am.
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When will somebody come up with a better alternative to LinkedIn?
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With great power comes great responsibility....
@Jason AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store.
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We will soon find out how much of society is held together by work. Remove the work.....even if more efficient and effective....and we remove a major adhesive to the fragile construct of society. Unglued societies are highly unpredictable and even volatile. And work is the
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AI Rant for the Day: There is not enough friction in the machine right now. We are incapable of understanding the end game and need time to process.
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You cannot auto tune life. Just a quick reminder that all this AI gear can only look back. Only Humans can actually look forward and imagine. The Human imperfections that come from exploring the unknown are the music that make Human endeavor so precious. And innovative. I
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We are simply not that important and regardless of how important we think we are this thing here does not revolve around us but rather the other way around.
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Memo to AI developers from Tommy Edison: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" His message is a reminder that jumping the shark from ideation to creation is to circumvent the perspiration part and therefore is not genius.
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Hey Recruiters.....I am confused by something. Does not take much. But, I keep seeing strong arguments being made by Recruiters that AI-enabled ATS systems are NOT filtering, stack ranking or making decisions on candidate dispositioning. Got to help me out here because that
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Part Two - ChatGPT definition of Candidate Dispositioning - "Did not meet minimum qualifications: The applicant was screened out early in the process." If that "early in the process piece" is being accomplished by an AI Agent then the AI Agent is dispositioning candidates.
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A little Malcolm Gladwell type exercise here... Recruiters - on your next Req that gets overpopulated with candidates, interview the top 5 recommended candidates delivered to you by the AI Agent in your ATS, and then go below the water line into candidates you would never ever
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