The Tables Have Turned: Why Candidates Are Ghosting Your Recruiters
From "ghosting" to skyrocketing candidate expectations, filling open roles has never been harder. Here is a look at why recruiters are struggling—and how to fix it.
From "ghosting" to skyrocketing candidate expectations, filling open roles has never been harder. Here is a look at why recruiters are struggling—and how to fix it.
The Fear Around AI in Recruitment Every time AI enters an industry, the first question people ask is ‘Will humans lose their jobs?’ I’ve noticed this concern not only among professionals in hiring but also among freshers and job seekers who feel the hiring process is becoming more robotic
From storing numbers in arrays to playing with words using strings, this part is fun and super practical.
Becoming an AI engineer isn’t about learning every tool. It’s about mastering the fundamentals, building real projects, and showing that you can solve real-world problems.
I used to dread technical interviews. The algorithms, the pressure, the whiteboard. But after doing open source, something shifted.
If you’re still in school or just starting out, you have an advantage: you can be intentional from the beginning.
But intensity comes with a cost. Long hours, stress around funding milestones, and blurred boundaries between work and personal time are common.
In the tech world, change is always there. It does not matter whether you are learning in a conference room, your home office, a café, or a coworking spot; the essential thing is that you are participating in learning.
So stop stressing about what you don’t have. Focus on building things, learning publicly, and showing what you’re capable of. Make your lack of traditional experience irrelevant by proving you can ship code and solve problems anyway.
Trust me when I say that once you work on these tasks, you will end up with a portfolio that you can display proudly when meeting potential employers. In fact, you may even end up having fun.
When I look back on my early professional life, there are decisions I’ve made that make me blush. Like many new college graduates, I’ve been eager, naive, and just looking for that first paycheck.
Once you start using Git seriously, even for small projects, it stops feeling optional. It becomes part of how you think as a developer.
Quality of Hire
They won’t comment on variable names unless the name is misleading. They won’t disagree about code formatting issues unless the team has infrastructure for that already in place. They won’t hinder a Pull Request based on personal preference in the name of “best practices.”
Campus Hiring & Bulk Recruitment
The process of getting your environment configured is similar to getting your workspace organised. Make those folders. Download those dependencies. Give meaningful names to your files.
Campus Hiring & Bulk Recruitment
In modern development, networking is no longer optional knowledge. Whether you are building APIs, deploying cloud applications, or debugging production issues, these concepts show up everywhere.
Campus Hiring & Bulk Recruitment
You are familiar with it. The startup begins operations. The product is inexpensive or free. It expands. Tiers are then introduced.
Campus Hiring & Bulk Recruitment
Some teams use multiple clouds. That can help in specific cases, but it’s also easy to end up with double the complexity and no real benefit. Multi-cloud is best when there’s a clear reason (regional constraints, redundancy requirements, or a specific product advantage).
Campus Hiring & Bulk Recruitment
Sometimes the sign is faded. Sometimes it’s partly hidden behind a tree. Sometimes it’s covered in dust. Sometimes it’s night and there’s glare from headlights. And sometimes it’s just placed oddly.
AI in Recruitment
Another interviewer told me that they have recommended candidates to be hired even when they have failed the technical questions…As long as the candidate was able to discuss why their solution was wrong.
AI in Recruitment
That conversation used to happen in month three of a failed search. Now it happens on day one. The hiring manager thinks I’m smarter. I’m not. I just have the data I didn’t have before.
AI in Recruitment
You know, the eight thousand tiny indignities that make up most of a recruiting day. The 200-resume screening sprint before standup.
AI in Recruitment
For most of the last two years, the discourse around AI in recruitment has been split into two camps that are equally unhelpful.
AI in Recruitment
Think about how we’ve been learning for hundreds of years. Everyone gets the same lesson, at the same speed, in the same way. It’s like buying shoes in only one size and expecting everyone to wear them comfortably.