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There’s 2 reasons why recruitment tech sucks:
1. Most of it is made by non-recruiters. People who have no idea what the actual problems are. But try to solve them anyway.
When I look at the new recruiting tech, it’s always a little off the mark.
Cool gadget. Costs a fortune. Doesn’t really solve anything.
I call it the Thanksgiving problem. You talk to your family over the holidays and they have no idea what you do. But they chime in anyway. Things they didn’t like about their last job search. How they’d fix it. You nod your head and smile because it’s always 3 levels removed from the root cause. And football’s on.
Recruiters work in a space that few understand. Yet everyone thinks they do and love to chime in.
And sometimes they build tech.
2. Recruiters are (needlessly) terrified of making themselves obsolete.
Google the 20 biggest companies of the year 2000. It’s a hysterical list of dinosaurs who got disrupted out of their own space doing things they could have done themselves.
Self-disruption is hard. “If it ain’t broke” mentality meets the fear of making yourself obsolete.
But it’s flawed thinking. If part of your job can be automated by AI sourcing or turned into a self-service recruiting platform: let it.
The human element isn’t going away. It should be focused on solving the next problem. Or the parts of the recruitment process that could use more human touch.
There’s a lot of those. Don’t be AOL…
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There’s 2 reasons why recruitment tech sucks