The Sonderling Doctrine.
Happy Friday, Job Board Doctor friends. I want to start today with a note about what you are about to read. I want you to know what I am writing is highly personal. I met Keith Sonderling during the pandemic…
If AI Eats the Application, What Is Left of Recruiting?
JBD Note: Guest essay by Martin Lenz, CEO of Jobiqo, on why the infrastructure behind recruiting may matter more as the interfaces in front of it may matter less. “There are only two ways to make money in business: bundling…
The Groove Was Real. The AI Story Behind It Wasn’t So Clean.
The Q2 2026 recap covered the headline recovery: postings up 3.7% YoY, white-collar and tech-adjacent metros leading, AI Specialist postings up 94.8%. We asked our data partner Aspen Tech Labs to go back into that same Q2 JobMarketPulse dataset and…
The AI Bias Audit Industry Has a Fake Candidate Problem
Happy Friday Job Board Doctor friends! If you haven’t checked it out yet: Maki People answered every question I sent them, on the record and in full, and that exchange is on the site. Last week, I wrote about disability…
AI Hiring Assessments and Disability Bias: What Maki People’s Answer Reveals
AI hiring assessments are almost never tested for disability bias. Maki People answered our questions about the Mochi assessment on the record and in full, and their answer on adverse impact analysis by disability and veteran status shows exactly how…
Maki People On The Record: 9 Full Text Responses
The Full Maki People Q&A: Nine Questions on the Bias Audit, Disability Testing, and What Mochi Actually Measures Maki People answered nine questions from the Job Board Doctor about Mochi, its AI voice interviewer. This companion piece publishes the full…
Maki Responds, Adzuna Acquires, Indeed 2027
Happy Friday Job Board Doctor friends! What a week it has been. What's on tap this week? Three updates and a rumor. Maki People responds to the Doc. Dennis Van Allemeersch joins Jobiqo's advisory board Adzuna lifts Joblift off the…
The Human Makes the Final Call, After the Machine Decides Who Gets One: Recruitics, Maki People, and the Pre-Apply Screen
(Note: This article was updated on July 17th, 2026 following information received from Maki People. See updates below.) Happy Friday Job Board Doctor friends! Thanks again to Lou and the Jobiqo team for wrangling the weekly last week. If you…
Colorado Gutted Its AI (Hiring) Law. Washington Didn’t.
Happy Thursday, Job Board Doctor friends! Two stories this week that, read together, tell you something uncomfortable about where worker protections actually come from. Both are happening at the state level, because the federal level is not happening at all,…
Job Slop and the Golden Opportunity Indeed is Giving
Happy Friday, Job Board Doctor friends. If you listened to Chad and Cheese last week, outside of my Job.com update, Chad hit on a term we have affectionately coined as "job slop." Job slop is the low-quality sludge filling our…