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Will Kelly

@willkelly.bsky.social

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Writer and content strategist focused on the cloud, DevOps, and enterprise AI. Learn more about me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willkelly. See my professional writing samples: https://authory.com/willkelly

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Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 2d

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Merrifield Garden Center: Last Holiday Season 🎄➡️💾 Gainesville’s beloved nursery is closing by Dec 31 after its 38-acre site sold for $160M (~$4.2M/acre) to a data center developer. Another big sign o...

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Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 2d

The real problem? The game rewards optics over experience. Until that flips, interviews stay theatre. #careeradvice #hiring #futureofwork

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 3d

Even if you ace it, working for someone with less lived experience rarely ends well. That's not mentorship—it's inertia. #leadershipfail #midcareer #careerrealities

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 3d

If your AI adoption plan is “run a training session,” congrats—you’ve built a theater program, not a strategy. #AI #TechLeadership #WorkplaceInnovation

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

Your AI trainer can nail a workshop. Cool. Can they fix a data mess or ship a prototype? Didn’t think so. #AI #DigitalTransformation #EnterpriseTech

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

Misaligned authority: when someone with less depth but more process control decides your "fit." #interviews #career #workplace

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

Final Post:
Hiring doesn’t need more AI or hoops. It needs more honesty.
Stop chasing rigor. Start restoring trust and context.
Because when the people who knew leave, the process that replaces them isn’t progress—it’s panic.
#FutureOfWork #Leadership #HiringCulture

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

🔟 The Real Hiring Signal
Your strongest hiring signal? Whether anyone can explain why the last person left. Culture truth > AI screening tools.
#HiringReform #Leadership

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

9️⃣ Why Great Candidates Opt Out
Top candidates don’t ghost—they sense disorganization. Clarity beats perks. Coherence beats chaos.
#CandidateExperience #TeamCulture

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

8️⃣ The “We’re Still Hiring” Paradox
Lay off talent, rename the same jobs, rehire cheaper—and call it “strategy.” That’s not agility. That’s amnesia.
#CorporateCulture #Layoffs

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

7️⃣ Process as a Cover Story
When teams don’t know what good looks like, they build process instead. More steps ≠ better hires.
#LeadershipCulture #DecisionMaking

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

6️⃣ The Hidden Cost of Layoffs
Layoffs create invisible debt: lost context, forgotten decisions, erased wisdom. Knowledge management starts with retention, not wikis.
#KnowledgeManagement #Leadership

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

5️⃣ The “Perfect Candidate” Myth
Job posts wanting “strategic executors” & “hands-on visionaries”? That’s nostalgia for laid-off talent. Hire for precision, not perfection.
#OrgDesign #FutureOfWork

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

4️⃣ When Interviews Become Deliverables
If your best ideas come from candidates, you’re not hiring—you’re outsourcing thinking to the interview loop.
#HiringEthics #ProductStrategy

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

3️⃣ Take-Home Tests = Lost Knowledge
Take-home tests don’t prove skill—they signal confusion. If you need free labor to find direction, your org forgot what “good” looks like.
#HiringPractices #TeamCulture

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

2️⃣ The Rigor Mirage
Six rounds. Three projects. Endless panels. That’s not rigor—it’s fear of being wrong. True rigor = clarity, not bureaucracy.
#RecruitingReform #Leadership

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

1️⃣ Idea Extraction Interviews
Interviews have turned into idea-mining sessions. Lay off the experts, then ask candidates to rebuild what you erased. You can’t interview your way back to competence.
#HiringCulture #KnowledgeManagement

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

Hiring used to build capability. Now it’s a mix of idea extraction, process theater, and risk aversion.
Here’s a 10-part thread on what’s really broken—and how we can fix it.👇
#HiringCulture #Leadership #FutureOfWork

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 4d

ILT as an integral part of AI enablement? That’s cosplay, not strategy. Slide decks don’t stop hallucinations or broken workflows. #AI #FutureOfWork #TechSnark

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 5d

Stop leading with classroom ILT skills in AI roles. Five-minute Looms do more than two-hour workshops. Focus on context, not slides. #AI #WorkplaceInnovation #DigitalTransformation

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 5d

We were promised meritocracy. What we got was politics, timing, and visibility dressed up as performance. #workculture #promotion #truth

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 5d

Most AI “enablement” training is theater. Real adoption comes from workflow redesign, governance, and prototypes. #AIAdoption #EnterpriseTech #Cloud

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 6d

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Microsoft Office’s icons just got curvy, colorful upgrades

It's the first time that the symbols have been updated since 2018—and the new designs are meant to help Microsoft usher in the AI era.

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Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 7d

ILT doesn’t necessarily drive AI adoption. Workshops won’t fix data pipelines or change workflows. Hire translators, not trainers. #AI #FutureOfWork #TechLeadership

Will Kelly @willkelly.bsky.social · 8d

The optics gap: when a VP or director still lists their college internship on LinkedIn, you're not seeing ambition—you're seeing signaling. #careers #management #optics