What Do Brainfooders Think?

RECRUITMENT OPERATIONS
Issue #450
1 Oct 2025
50% are AI Optimists - and we absolutely need you to stay that way! Our linear perspective of time means we often misunderstand the nature of what we mean by ‘the future’ - it’s not a fixed point that we must inevitably reach but a rhetorical construct which shapes the present. We need to stay ‘credibly optimistic’ and help make a future which works for all us. Thanks for all who voted - make sure you scroll to the bottom of the newsletter and vote on this week’s poll.
Brainfood Live On Air - Ep310 - Hiring Efficiency: How Staffing Agencies, RPO and In-house are using AI?, Fri 30th May, 2pm BSTAre Staffing agencies ahead of Corporate in using AI? How do RPO’s juggle data privacy issues when using AI? What can we learn from each other in how to experiment and implement artificial intelligence into our workflows? We’re comparing how different types of recruiter use AI, this Friday 30th May, 2pm BST -register here!
The Brainfood
1. The Future of Human Resources: Organizational Engineering AI-enablement is moving from ROI justifications to top down directives from CEO’s frustrated at the lack of pace of adoption. Important line in this exceptional piece from brainfooder Toby Culshaw is paraphrased from Josh Bersin, which I will re-paraphrase here: if we don’t AI enable, somebody is just going to cut our headcount. We need a framework that we can use and Toby has provided one here - Cyborg, Robot or Android? Must read folks.