Tools and selection
Evaluating AI recruiting tools without the hype
A vendor-neutral way to test AI recruiting technology against your stack, your workflows, and your risk position, before a pilot turns into a contract.
Insights
Notes from the work.
Writing on how AI is actually landing inside talent acquisition: regulation, tool selection, recruiter enablement, and governance that a small team can maintain.
- AI Act and regulation
- Tools and selection
- Recruiter enablement
- Governance
Featured · AI Act and regulation
The EU AI Act compliance deadline moved. The business risk didn't.
The EU AI Act classifies AI used in recruitment and employment decisions as high-risk. It does not make hiring AI illegal, it regulates it, and employer obligations apply from 2 December 2027. This piece walks through what that means in practice: where AI sits in your process, who owns oversight, and what documentation you are expected to hold. In the UK, the ICO examined the automated hiring practices of thirty employers in spring 2026 and found most of them falling short of what the law already asks.
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In preparation
Recruiter enablement
Teaching recruiters to use AI well
Most AI tools in hiring are being used at a fraction of their value because nobody was trained. What a useful enablement programme looks like.
Governance
Governance documentation that actually gets used
The AI policy, use-case register, and oversight procedure that a talent function can maintain without a compliance department.
AI Act and regulation
Who owns AI compliance in hiring?
Legal assumes talent has it. Talent assumes IT has it. How teams are settling ownership before a regulator settles it for them.
Tools and selection
Talent intelligence, and what the data can honestly tell you
Market intelligence tooling promises a great deal. What holds up under scrutiny, and what to do with the rest.
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