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Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring?

Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring?

Ep 800: Will AI Break Recruiting?

Recruiting Future with Matt Alder - What's Next For Talent Acquisition, HR & Hiring? · Jun 12, 2026 · 46:32

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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




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