TA leaders have to keep delivering for the business while they use AI to transform how hiring works. At RecFest USA in Nashville, AI was the main topic of conversation, although the people I spoke to talked about much more than the technology. So where should TA leaders be focusing their attention?
I recorded seven short interviews at the event, and they fall into three themes. Those themes are the value that talent acquisition brings to the business, the risks that employers now have to manage, and what comes next for hiring.
My guests are Jamie Leonard, Founder of RecFest; Stef Nikitas, Director of Talent Acquisition at Ace Hardware; Julia Levy, a former Fortune 500 talent acquisition executive; Jim Stroud, Head of Market Strategy and Industry Engagement at ProvenBase; Lorna Erickson, Co-Founder of Expert Interviewers; Mark Chaffey, Co-Founder and CEO of hackajob, the company behind Archer; and Ben Russell, Co-Founder and CCO of SonicJobs. In our conversations, they discuss who should own quality of hire, how employers are responding to legal risk and candidate fraud, and how AI is changing the way candidates and employers find each other.
In the interview, we discuss:
The growing conversation about how TA aligns with business goals
Who should own quality of hire and how should it be measured?
The compliance and legal pitfalls around AI and pay transparency
How to check for candidate fraud without making the process harder for real candidates
The lack of trust between candidates and recruiters
How job seekers are using large language models to look for work
What generative engine optimization means for employers
Is agent-to-agent hiring the future of talent acquisition?
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