by Jonathan Palombo | Aug 10, 2026 | Hiring Trends, Market Insights, Professional Services
I had the pleasure of joining several leaders at the Agentic SOC Forum: From SOC Cacophony to Agentic Neural SOC Symphony. The experience of the leaders I joined on stage spanned national cyber defense, enterprise security, healthcare, cloud data, public-sector... 
by Robert Bouchard | Jun 15, 2026 | Hiring Trends, Market Insights, Professional Services
The staffing industry is at a turning point. Going into the 2026 TALiNT Partners Staffing and Talent Solutions Conference, I expected to hear about AI. I expected to hear about speed and efficiency. As you might have guessed, we did talk a lot about how AI is... 
by Tier4 Group | May 8, 2026 | Hiring Trends, Market Insights, Professional Services
Candidate fraud is on the rise, and it has a new look. Candidate fraud has been around for as long as… well, for as long as competitive hiring has been in place. For decades, it involved small embellishments. Resume & Credential Fraud Skills... 
by Robert Bouchard | May 8, 2026 | Hiring Trends, Market Insights, Professional Services
The future of talent acquisition is not fully automated; it is intentionally orchestrated by humans. That theme came into sharp focus for me at the Recruiting Innovation Summit, run by ERE Media, May 4-6 in Atlanta. Joining hundreds of talent acquisition and staffing... 
by Robert Bouchard | Apr 14, 2026 | Hiring Trends, Market Insights, Professional Services
The volume game is over. That was the clear message circulating at the SIA Executive Forum in Austin, Texas. The staffing and talent industry is entering a post-volume era where repeatability, disciplined transformation, and value creation determine winners. Leaders... 
by Robert Bouchard | Mar 10, 2026 | Hiring Trends, Market Insights, Professional Services
And we all thought ghosting was bad. Enter enhanced hiring and workforce risks driven in large part by generative AI, remote work models, and increasingly organized fraud networks. What was once a largely trust-based recruiting process is now a high-risk, end-to-end...