Hirewell’s Founder and CEO joined tastytrade’s Bootstrapping in America to discuss what the company is doing differently, staying ahead of the recruiting curve, Chicago tech salaries plus much more.
Be careful what you wish for.
We’ve long said recruitment technology is comically behind the times. (Feel free to go way back and watch episode 6, “Why Does HR Technology Suck?“) Historically, it’s the last place for new innovation when there’s more money to be made creating sales or marketing tech.
But if you work in recruiting and you looked at your inbox over the last year, you probably noticed the steady increase in spam pitches. New RecruitTech is popping up left and right. Maybe AI made it cheaper to create. Maybe buyers in recruiting are finally the low-hanging fruit.
But the real question: is any of it any good? Jeff Smith and James Hornick. will tackle that in the The 10 Minute Talent Rant, episode 101, “The RecruitTech Hellscape Is Here”
Episode 101
