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Tools nobody chose
AI features arrive through platform updates inside your ATS, your sourcing tools, your scheduling stack. No one signed off on them. They are already shaping shortlists.
AI Advisory · Talent Acquisition
Responsible AI
for Smarter
Hiring.
LaLonde Advisory works with talent acquisition teams at European technology scale-ups on how to implement, adopt, and refine AI in hiring, in ways that keep human judgment, company culture, and a high hiring bar intact.
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Strategy
A prioritised AI roadmap tied to the hiring plan
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Selection
Vendor-neutral evaluation, pilots, and integration
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Governance
Policies, oversight, and audit trails for the EU AI Act
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Enablement
Recruiter training that turns AI into daily practice
The problem
AI arrived in hiring before anyone was taught to use it.
Almost every talent team in Europe is now using AI somewhere in the process. Very few can say where, who approved it, or what it is doing to the quality of their hiring.
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No owner for AI in hiring
Legal assumes talent has it covered. Talent assumes IT has it covered. Nobody holds the documentation, the oversight steps, or the audit trail.
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No time to evaluate
Every vendor claims the same outcomes. Recruiters are at capacity. There is no room in the week to test what actually works and what quietly degrades quality.
Services
Four questions talent leaders are asking right now.
The work is organised around the questions themselves, not around a methodology. Most teams start with an AI Readiness Assessment and go from there.
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What should we do with AI?
AI Strategy
A prioritised roadmap for the talent function, tied to your hiring plan and your cost targets.
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Which tools should we use?
Selection and Implementation
Vendor-neutral evaluation, pilot design, and integration of AI sourcing and market-intelligence tooling into daily recruiting work.
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How do we use AI responsibly?
Governance and Readiness
AI Readiness Assessments, plus the policies, documentation, human-oversight procedures, and audit trails the EU AI Act asks of employers using high-risk hiring AI.
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How do we keep improving?
Optimisation and Advisory
Recruiter AI enablement training, and a Fractional AI Advisor retainer for teams that need ongoing guidance without a full-time hire.
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Vendor neutrality
LaLonde Advisory takes no commissions and no referral fees from any tool vendor. What gets recommended is what fits your stack, your team and your risk position.
This is an operational talent acquisition and responsible-AI implementation practice, not a law firm. Formal legal conclusions are referred to qualified counsel.
18 years
In technology recruiting and business development
9 years
Hiring engineers for high-growth companies in the US and Europe
Meta
Most recently, technical recruiting at Meta
Torc Robotics
Led European market entry from Stuttgart. Global MBA at EDHEC in Nice
Why LaLonde Advisory
Recruiting experience first, AI second.
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Recruiting experience first
Eighteen years in technology recruiting and business development, nine of them hiring engineers for high-growth companies in the US and Europe. Advice is written for the way recruiters actually work.
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Vendor neutral
LaLonde Advisory takes no commissions and no referral fees from any tool vendor. Recommendations are not shaped by who pays.
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Practical implementation
Every recommendation lands in a workflow, a policy, or a training session. Findings come with the sequence to act on them.
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Human judgment retained
AI takes the repetitive work. People keep the decisions, the culture, and the hiring bar.
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European regulatory perspective
Based in France, working across the UK, Germany, and the wider EU, with the EU AI Act treated as a design constraint rather than a late review.
Meet the Founder
A recruiter who works on AI, not the other way around.
Evelyn LaLonde has spent eighteen years in technology recruiting and business development, including nine years hiring engineers for high-growth companies in the US and Europe. Most recently at Meta, and before that leading European market entry for Torc Robotics from Stuttgart.
She is completing a Global MBA at EDHEC Business School in Nice and advises talent teams on bringing AI into hiring without giving up judgment, culture, or the hiring bar.
Practice
Talent Acquisition · AI Adoption · Governance
Education
EDHEC Business School, Global MBA
Insights
Notes from the work.
Contact
Start a conversation.
Thirty minutes on where AI already sits in your hiring, what it is doing, and what would need to be true to use it well. Introductory conversations are available.