Why Recruiting Tech is (Still) Not Helping Candidates and How to Fix It

About this episode

In this episode, Charles Handler and Doug Berg discuss the shortcomings of current recruiting technology and propose a candidate-centered approach to hiring.

“There’s this massive imbalance between the employer side of the recruiting equation where they’ve got all the tech, they’ve got all the weapons… Candidates don’t have anything.” –Doug Berg In this episode, I’m joined by Doug Berg , head matcher and big kahuna at Match2 , a longtime builder and operator in the talent technology/recruitment space and the only guy I know that wears flip flops to HR Tech.. Doug has lived and hacked nearly every iteration of online hiring — from fax machines and early internet job fairs to today’s AI-powered recruiting chaos. Doug and I have lived parallel lives in some sense. We have both been on the scene as recruitment went on-line and have continued to wage war against the barriers that are blocking successful hiring. But Doug’s unique experience building recruiting focused tech helps us take a very well rounded perspective. Doug and I trace the psychology of hiring systems , why most recruiting technology still fails both candidates and employers, and how efficiency-driven design has quietly stripped humanity out of the process. We talk about what broke, why AI is making some problems worse before it makes them better, and what a…

People in this episode

Host: Charles Handler

Guest: Doug Berg

Topics covered

• recruiting technology
• candidate experience
• psychology of hiring
• AI in recruitment
• efficiency-driven design
• candidate-centered future

Keywords

• recruiting
• technology
• candidates
• AI
• hiring process
• efficiency
• psychology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Match2

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