Ep 800: Will AI Break Recruiting?

Ep 800: Will AI Break Recruiting?

June 12, 2026 · 47 min · Episode 800

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In this episode, Matt Alder explores the impact of AI on recruiting and the potential risks and benefits it brings to the industry.

Recruiting has always had an innovation problem, and the AI revolution has brought it to a fork in the road. Will AI facilitate a revolution in hiring that drives more value than we have seen in 200 years or will it finally break recruiting as we’ve always known it. In this special 800th episode of Recruiting Future, Matt Alder tells a story that brings together Cornish Tin miners migrating to Mexico in the 1820, a letter Leonardo Da Vinci wrote to the Duke of Milan in 1492, the rise of AI and long-standing problems with have with innovating how we recruit talent. How can we use AI to solve age old problems, what are the risk involved and how should TA Leaders be preparing their teams? In the episode Matt discusses: How modern-day recruiting has been inherited and never designed The similarities between recruiting today and recruiting 200 years ago Case studies illustrating the huge amount of value AI can bring in hiring Three big risks The fork in the road AI has brought us to A framework for AI Readiness Winding roads and jagged frontiers How we can build the future Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts. Follow this podcast on Spotify.

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