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How a Seed-Stage Startup Hired Their Founding Engineer and Built a Scalable Hiring Engine
A Berlin seed-stage PropTech startup needed their first Founding Engineer fast. With no hiring infrastructure in place, I built a complete recruitment engine, from role definition and market positioning to technical evaluation and candidate experience. The result: a quality hire in 8 weeks and a plug-and-play system to scale from 1 to 15+ engineers.
Aug 95 min read
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44 Advanced AI and Automation Tools for Talent Acquisition: Assessment, Automation & Forecasting
These 44 AI tools help talent teams assess skills, generate content, automate workflows, and plan ahead. They’re practical, often overlooked, and built for real-world use across the full recruitment process.
Jul 298 min read
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AI for Senior Recruiters in 2025: What Gets Automated, What Stays Human - 2
Discover how AI for Senior Recruiters transforms talent acquisition. The Principal Recruiter explains which tasks are automated, which require uniquely human skills, and which AI tools drive results. Strategic use of AI not only improves sourcing and data analysis but also elevates the recruiter’s role to insight-driven leadership. Human judgment remains essential in candidate assessment and stakeholder management.
Jul 217 min read
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Your AI-Ready Recruitment Framework
Most companies rush into AI without fixing broken hiring. This post shows why AI-Ready Recruitment matters, the true costs of bad processes and legal risks, and offers a clear framework to build strong foundations that deliver real results. Stop plugging gaps with tech and start creating sustainable, compliant hiring systems your team can trust.
Jul 74 min read
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Applying Software Evolution Paradigms to Talent Acquisition
Discover how Andrej Karpathy's software evolution framework reveals a very important transformation for talent acquisition approaches. Learn the 3 paradigms reshaping recruitment: from manual processes to AI-powered hiring. Master prompt-driven recruiting, partial autonomy apps, and human-AI collaboration strategies that give early adopters a competitive edge.
Jun 247 min read
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AI for Recruiters in 2025: What Gets Automated, What Stays Human
AI in Recruitment: What Changes for You: From Recruiter to Principal In short: here’s what matters - human skills are still very much...
May 266 min read
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How to Build and Scale Communities: 5 Field-Tested Strategies from 3000+ Members
Want to build a thriving community? After growing Talent Crunch Berlin to 3,300+ members, I'm sharing the real strategies that work - from v
Feb 115 min read
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85 Problems with AI Recruitment today: A Principal Recruiter's Reality Check of Josh Bersin's AI Revolution
A Principal Recruiter analyses Josh Bersin's AI recruitment vision, revealing 85 crucial gaps and practical solutions for modern hiring team
Dec 18, 20248 min read
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The Allocation Economy - The Future of Talent Acquisition 2025: AI Agents, Skills-Based Hiring & Blended Workforce
The allocation economy transforms talent acquisition through AI agents and skills-based hiring. Prepare your organisation for 2025.
Dec 15, 20244 min read
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16 Recruitment Inefficiencies Draining Your Budget and 14 Solutions to Fix Them
Stop wasting money on inefficient recruitment. Discover 16 hidden costs and 14 solutions to transform your talent acquisition processes.
Oct 26, 20246 min read
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The Importance of a Principal Recruiter Career Path - for Talent Executives and Individual Contributors
Discover the impact of a Principal Recruiter: key skills, frameworks, and career paths redefining talent acquisition beyond senior recruiter
Sep 23, 20238 min read
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