The end of the pandemic coincided with rising interest rates and the latest AI revolution. All three created massive impacts on the state of hiring.

Research recently published in the Harvard Business Review highlighted the reduction in posts for “automation-prone jobs” (e.g. software development) compared to manual intensive jobs (e.g. office management) since ChatGPT launched in 2022. A similar decline was observed amongst postings for multimedia creation-related jobs after the introduction of DALL-E and other AI-powered image generation tools.

As you read through our analysis and reviews, be careful not to limit your organization to how you do things today. Reflect on how your own processes can and should evolve in this new economic reality and with the right tooling. It might be that you can optimize certain steps significantly more than you have in the past.