Everyone thinks AI in recruiting is about speed and efficiency. I can screen 10,000 more resumes now. I can manage 10 or 12 roles without being the bottleneck. AI will do the work I don't have time for.

That’s the wrong path.

When you think like that, you’re trying to remove yourself from the process. You’re looking at AI like it’s there to screen resumes, surface the top candidates, and call it a day. That’s what every sourcing product does.

And you can see where that leads. Just look at Eightfold. They’re now facing a class action, and The New York Times wrote about it. Their AI turned into a black box that started discriminating against candidates.

A lot of teams bought it chasing speed, not quality.

The real value isn’t in getting through more resumes. It’s in learning from the ones you already have.

Where are you sourcing wrong? What makes a quality hire in your pipeline? Which filters are hurting you instead of helping?

AI can answer those questions if you use it the right way. Give it your data and ask for patterns, not shortcuts. Let it help you find strategies, not do your homework.

You can move fast all you want, but that doesn’t always mean you’re finding better people.