How RecruitMilitary Uses AI to Transform Veteran Hiring

About this episode

Tim Best discusses how RecruitMilitary uses AI to enhance veteran hiring by providing a comprehensive view of candidates beyond their resumes.

What does it take to bridge one of the most persistent translation problems in talent acquisition – getting a Fortune 500 recruiter to see why a Little Bird attack helicopter pilot from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is the perfect candidate for their open role? Tim Best, CEO of RecruitMilitary and former active duty Army officer, gives us a mission-driven and practical answer: go beyond the resume. Resumes and job descriptions flatten people. And for veterans, who enter the civilian workforce carrying hundreds of thousands of skills and attributes that don’t map to corporate job architectures, that flatness is the enemy. The technology RecruitMilitary built with Findem, the Veteran Talent Source, solves this by giving recruiters a three-dimensional view of who a candidate actually is: not just what they did, but what they’ve continuously become. Because profiles are enriched in real time, the candidate in someone’s ATS today is not the candidate from 25 years ago – and the AI knows the difference. The results are outstanding. In 2025, RecruitMilitary created over 600,000 connections between employers and military community job…

People in this episode

Host: Josh Bersin

Guest: Tim Best

Topics covered

• veteran hiring
• AI in recruitment
• talent acquisition
• job market
• military skills

Keywords

• veteran hiring
• AI
• RecruitMilitary
• talent acquisition
• job descriptions
• military skills
• recruitment technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RecruitMilitary, Findem, Fortune 500

Places: 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment

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