🎙️ New episode of Strategic Shift is now live.

Host Christy Honeycutt sits down with Huw Newton-Hill to discuss how digital twins and simulation are changing workforce readiness—validating skills before day one.

🎧 Watch now:

Workforce problems rarely start when you notice them.

They start months earlier—in skills you didn’t track, roles you couldn’t forecast and budgets made without real workforce data.

pepelwerk helps organizations see those gaps early, plan with confidence and turn talent

It’s time money worked for citizens, not just companies. 💼 ➡️ 👶
Our collaboration with DOL and @usedgov with program management is just one component of evolving how citizens can yield more value from our Tax dollars.
Today, Trump has announced the Trump Accounts marking

Everyone’s asking what skills matter next.

Coming this Friday Huw Newton-Hill shares a different take with Christy Honeycutt on Strategic Shift.
🎙️ Sneak peek 👀
#podcast #StrategicShift #wednesdaymotivation

Organizations keep telling workers to “upskill.”

Meanwhile, hiring systems still reward pedigree over capability, speed over alignment and volume over fit.

That’s not a talent problem.
It’s a system design problem.

-The Unemployment Society
https://www.unemploymentsociety.com/

I just watched a career fair scene that nailed the chaos: laminated resumes, “dress for success,” packed booths, long lines and the quiet wait to hear back. 😱

That’s what most career fairs still look like.

pepelwerk hiring match events flip the model:
Pre-matched candidates,

🎙️ New Strategic Shift episode is live: From Invisible to In-Demand: Owning Your Personal Brand
Tune in for Christy Honeycutt and Stacey Cohen on career visibility, personal branding and standing out in today’s job market.

🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-invisible-to-in-demand-owning-your-personal-brand/id1819098668?i=1000746347219
Spotify:

If AI was actually plug-and-play, teams wouldn’t be spending hours supervising it. 🤖 👀

The problem lies when an organization rolls out AI without changing the system around it.

More tools ≠ more productivity.
More clarity does.

AI should reduce uncertainty, not add another

Big news 🎉
Kim Kelley, CEO of pepelwerk, has been named a finalist for Dallas HR Stars' AI Innovator of the Year. Proud to see bold, human-centered innovation recognized! 🌟 Congratulations @the1KimKelley!
Full announcement: https://hubs.ly/Q03_QdrD0

This week on Strategic Shift, we’re joined by Stacey Cohen for a conversation on mindset, resilience and what today’s traditional job market is really doing to confidence.

🎙️ Full episode drops this Friday.
Catch up on previous Strategic Shift episodes here:

Davos is full of conversations about the future of work.

The real question is who’s actually building it. 🤔

While leaders debate skills, AI, talent shortages and workforce resilience, pepelwerk is actively turning those conversations into reality, connecting skills to real

When companies roll out an AI tool and call it innovation…🤨

But don’t train the employees
Don’t set expectations
Don’t teach the AI what good looks like

That’s not efficiency. That’s chaos.

More from The Unemployment Society:

How can we deploy innovation at scale and responsibly? 🤔
One of The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (Jan 19–23) key themes is posing this question.
We believe innovation in workforce development starts with skills-based hiring and upskilling tools, creating career pathways

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