Jim Stroud

Career & workforce intelligence.
Clarity on what’s happening now and next in the world of work.

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Are we becoming less human?🤔

Jim Stroud talks with Victor Cho, CEO and founder of Emovid and former CEO of Evite, about empathy, leadership, automation, and building AI that amplifies people instead of replacing them.

Learn more at https://t.co/3ACnlcycSS.

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Hong Kong to debut first robot-run convenience store https://t.co/5TcOXcGF8r

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A TALE OF 2 RESUMES - After months of rejections, a 58-year-old man decides to test the system. He submits two nearly identical job applications to the same company. One gets an immediate rejection. The other gets a callback. 😯

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[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

9 hard truths I learned about money from people more successful than me:

1. Rich people aren’t smarter than you. They just move faster, take more risk, and work way harder than you think.
2. Being likable will make you more money than being smart 9/10 times.
3. Your fear of losing money is exactly why you don’t have any.
4. How you look changes what people think you’re worth. People who dress and look better make more money.
5. You’ll never make money if you can't read a P&L. Get fluent in how cash actually moves: debt, EBITDA, and how businesses make profit.
6. The faster you move the more money you make.
7. Raw data is worthless. The ability to package it into a story other people can understand is priceless.
8. The best way to get ahead is doing one thing for years. The ability to handle monotony is where all the money is.
9. 90% of financial advice is worthless. The best you can do is become more valuable and charge more because of it.

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#America is aging into more medical need just as many physicians are aging out of the workforce. #Healthcare recruiting cannot keep waiting for open reqs, #job posts, and active applicants. The waiting room is filling faster than the pipeline. https://t.co/Y397UskbIN #recruiting

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A TALE OF 2 RESUMES - After months of rejections, a 58-year-old man decides to test the system. He submits two nearly identical job applications to the same company. One gets an immediate rejection. The other gets a callback. 😯

Brought to you by: https://t.co/mHWgwqZQOB

[CNN @CNN]

Federal authorities have seized over a dozen websites they say were used by suspected Chinese agents to recruit former and current American officials with security clearances. https://t.co/NGYJQ5gJhP

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Whether the market is good or bad, you should pursue the dreams that make economic sense for you. Thoughts?

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

The job market is so bad that you can only pursue your dreams now

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@godofprompt_new ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude

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🚨 GIVEAWAY
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I wrote the fix: the Anti-Slop AI Content Guide for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. We launch it today for 27$ on our web.

Giving 100 copies away FOR FREE, for X community only:

1. Like + repost
2. Reply with the AI you'll use it on
3. Follow me so I can DM it after

Winners and DMs go out by June 20

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Are there really jobs out there, or just openings nobody plans to fill?

In this episode, Jim Stroud breaks down the strange, tangled reality of today’s labor market, where job postings are up, hiring feels frozen, recruiters are stuck in limbo, and job seekers are losing trust in the system. The market is not booming. It is not collapsing. It is entangled.

This episode brought to you by: The Recruiting Life & Career Intelligence Weekly. Find both newsletters at https://t.co/vTpz3eKWaJ

[ProvenBase @ProvenBase]

🧵 Teach a recruiter to search
one database —

You source for a day.

Give them Deep Search —

You source forever.

Here's why that's not
just a clever line.

It's a structural argument
about how sourcing actually works.

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Hmmm… who can help me identify this person from #HRWest? I think it’s Debbie McGrath of https://t.co/PBbMY8IHD5

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At #hrwest and learning that some employees feel closer to AI than to their coworkers

[Jim Stroud @jimstroud]

Are there really jobs out there, or just openings nobody plans to fill?

In this episode, Jim Stroud breaks down the strange, tangled reality of today’s labor market, where job postings are up, hiring feels frozen, recruiters are stuck in limbo, and job seekers are losing trust in the system. The market is not booming. It is not collapsing. It is entangled.

This episode brought to you by: The Recruiting Life & Career Intelligence Weekly. Find both newsletters at https://t.co/vTpz3eKWaJ

[ProvenBase @ProvenBase]

The talent pipeline isn’t shrinking.
It’s fracturing.
U.S. undergrad enrollment: 18.1M peak (2010) → 15.4M (2022). Down ~15%.
HS grads projected to drop another 13% by 2041.
Traditional college pipelines are cracking.

https://t.co/9RCl9rg6DB

[ProvenBase @ProvenBase]

Most retention strategies fail because they’re reactive.
The winners run continuous talent mapping + rapid counter-offer protocols.
They know their people’s market value before the competitor DMs land.
Proactive beats reactive every time.
Proof: https://t.co/Pt4VtHbei0

[ProvenBase @ProvenBase]

Friday Recruiting Starter Pack 😂
☕ 7 cups of coffee 💻 42 browser tabs open🔍 Endless Boolean strings 😵 “Can we have candidates by Monday?”
🔥 One #recruiter holding the entire hiring pipeline together. Then enters...ProvenBase.com
“Relax… I already found them.” 😎🚀 #TA

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#AI may not replace your whole #job. It may just make your employer ask: “If 10 people with AI can do what 15 people used to do, why are we still paying 15?”

Reports cited in this podcast: https://t.co/17W23Oc2nV

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