Staffbase's TA team had strong offer acceptance rates. But they saw something most high-performing teams miss: the gap between executing well and influencing strategically. They invested in strategic negotiation skills training. The result? 100% recommendation rate and immediate behavioural changes. Recruiters stopped saying 'I'll check with the team' and started positioning compensation from day one. Here's how they did it.

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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.

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