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When the interview stops proving identity
Gartner expects one in four candidate profiles worldwide to be fake by 2028. The defence isn't better software — it's verification that doesn't run through the candidate.
Shubham Mittal · 12 August 2026
Job titles are a lossy compression of what people can do
Employers expect 39% of core skills to change by 2030. A title tells you where someone sat; it does not tell you what they can do next — and that gap is now the search problem.
Jatin Tyagi · 24 July 2026
What to look for when the job will change under them
Around half of senior hires fail within eighteen months — and almost none of them fail because they couldn't do the technical work. What predicts success is a different list entirely.
Ketan Raikar · 8 July 2026
Everyone says they hire for skills. Almost nobody does.
Four in five employers say they hire for skills, not degrees. Analysis of actual hires finds the change is close to a rounding error — and the reason is structural, not cynical.
Jatin Tyagi · 19 June 2026
India's leadership market has repriced, and the succession slates haven't caught up
India now hosts 2,117 GCCs employing 2.36 million people. The constraint is no longer capital or mandate — it is a thin layer of leaders who can operate between strategy and delivery.
Shubham Mittal · 30 May 2026
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