AI can support Recruiters, but it should never lead.

There’s a slowly growing narrative that AI is the future of hiring and recruitment. That machines can somehow sift through CVs, assess culture fits, and identify top talent better than humans.

Our stance is clear: recruitment is not just data points and keywords. It’s a human process, and handing it over to algorithms risks losing what makes it effective in the first place.

AI lacks context, nuance, and most importantly, emotional intelligence. All essential for a efficient and effective hiring process. A CV might get flagged for missing a keyword, but how does an algorithm recognise work ethic, adaptability, or genuine passion? It can't and it doesn’t. So what are we really automating here? A faster way to repeat the same mistakes?

The very real issues within AI systems is that it's trained on historical data that reflect human prejudice. Automating problems, not solving them. Replacing recruiters with algorithms doesn't just strip out the human element, we believe it undermines trust. Beyond that, what message are we sending to job seekers when their first interaction with a company is through a faceless algorithm? That they’re not worth a conversation? That a machine knows better than a person whether they belong? That’s not innovation.

Hiring isn’t always about filling roles quickly; it’s about building teams, relationships, and long-term success. AI can support Recruiters, but it should never lead. Recruitment should be a human process involving humans at every step, not outsourced to an algorithm.

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