#60: On the Frontline – How AI is Shaping the Future of High Volume Recruiting

The Changing State of Talent Acquisition

#60: On the Frontline – How AI is Shaping the Future of High Volume Recruiting

This week we welcome Sean Behr to the podcast. Sean is a successful entrepreneur spanning multiple industries, including e-commerce, advertising and automotive. Before joining Fountain as an investor and CEO, Sean held a number of founding and senior leadership roles at STRATIM, Adap.tv, and Shopping.com. He is also an active investor and advisor for numerous early stage companies, including Nana, AntHill, and Kinectic Eye, among others.

Topics include: the unique challenges and opportunities of frontline recruiting, the limitations of applying recruiting tactics and technologies designed for corporate roles to frontline roles, how the labor market is forcing organizations to consider new approaches to frontline recruiting, technological innovation in recruiting as an agent for (and impediment to) change, the increasing demands for efficiency in HR/TA, strategy vs. technology, task-based automation vs. goal-based automation, and the iterative nature of advances in artificial intelligence
Sean Behr
CEO, Fountain

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Chapters

1. Transforming Talent Acquisition Landscape (00:00:00)

2. Rapid Technological Change in HR (00:13:29)

3. AI's Impact on Strategic Decision-Making (00:26:10)