I extended my last job offer of 2023 yesterday. It was signed today. 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳Recruiting is one of those jobs where the highs are very high, and the lows are very low.10 years in, I still dance around and celebrate joyfully when a match is made. 💃

Not because I get something directly in return - it's a long-term embedded client contract with no "contingency" aka success fee.

But because there's nothing like hearing the excitement and joy of someone who is so excited to join a new company, team, and start the new chapter of their career. 🥹

‍AI will undoubtedly change recruitment.

That is a fact and our opinions of it are quite irrelevant.

But I'm honestly not scared, because I am all for automation of everything we possibly can to make our jobs easier and faster.

I want to use technology and be ahead of the curve.

I am interested in doing the work that machines cannot do.

The work that makes us human.

And as long as humans are hiring other humans to work with, it will be an emotional, aka human process.

The reason I have stayed in recruiting for a decade now is because I like to be a part of this emotional process:

- listening to hiring managers' and teams needs, pain points and goals

- listening to job applicants' experiences and career goals

- finding and convincing candidates who may not be actively looking, but I think would be a great match for my hiring manager's needs to consider an interview- connecting hiring managers and qualified candidates to each other

- communicating through the process, having difficult and emotional conversations with clients as well as candidates who are or aren't moving forward in the process

- ... and after often many months, navigating through the offer process.

2024 will be about making the hiring processes more efficient - without sacrificing what is human.