Recruit Differently Podcast

A pair of luxury Italian shoes can cost many thousands of dollars.   The best ones are handmade, of course. Using old world techniques and custom materials.  The most expensive cars in the world routinely eclipse the $3M mark.   And they too are not made on a high speed assembly line.  They’re made one at a time.  By hand.And yet here we are -- the recruiting industry -- racing to remove hands from an entirely human experience, the hiring process. We’ve been told that we must automate our low-value, administrative tasks that no one wants to do. But wait...who told us that?   Candidates? Did they beg for more automation?  Do they want less human interaction?Probably not.    It was the RecTech marketers who convinced us that we needed to automate.  But consider this. When you optimize for speed and automation (efficiency), you end up attracting the middle (or lowest) part of a market. The same way you do when you make cars on a high spe