Your Talent Strategy Has to Keep Up with Your AI Transformation

“Julie,” the CHRO of a mid-sized media organization, made a decision she called “practically unavoidable.” Facing board pressure to cut costs and show ROI on AI investments, she eliminated her firm’s 200-person analyst associate program—the entry-level cohort that had, for decades, been the company’s primary pipeline for mid-level talent. The savings were immediate. The consequences were not.