The Future of Work and Staffing in an AI Era

Joel Cheesman (0:00)

Dude, it turns out that Winston, Smart Recruiter's first AI hiring sidekick, is taking all the grunt work out of Recruiter's Day.

Things like candidate screening, scheduling, all the admin garbage no one actually wants to touch. Winston can do it all.

Chad Sowash (0:17)

Man, you know I'm a fan of using new tech that takes the boring, repetitive crap out of a Recruiter's Day and allows them to have more time to connect with hiring managers and candidates.

Joel Cheesman (0:29)

Yep, Winston is doing the heavy lifting while Recruiter's kick back and do the actual hiring stuff. You know, like talking to people.

Chad Sowash (0:37)

I really dig that Smart Recruiter's is evolving out of the legacy ATS model and embracing cleaner processes using AI. With most ATS providers, it's like, hey, 2003 called and it wants its 30 minute application process back.

Joel Cheesman (0:53)

No doubt, it sounds like Rebecca and the team are using Winston to push Smart Recruiter's into the future while the ATS vendors are basically on an AOL dial-up modem with a dashboard.

Chad Sowash (1:05)

With Smart Recruiter's, Winston does the grind and the recruiters get the glory.

Joel Cheesman (1:11)

For more information on superhuman hiring with Winston, visit smartrecruiters.com. That's smartrecruiters.com.

Chad Sowash (1:19)

Start using Winston today or I guess you can stick with...

SPEAKER_3 (1:25)

Now we return you to our regular scheduled program, In Progress.

Chad Sowash (1:28)

How many of you felt like you wanted to be that guinea pig for the shaving robot? Anyone? Anyone?

Can you imagine the anxiety that that guy was going through? And you know this one is the first time.

Joel Cheesman (1:41)

I want to see the manscaping robot. I want to see that guy.

Chad Sowash (1:44)

You're going to be the guinea pig for that one, yes.

SPEAKER_3 (1:49)

What's up, Amsterdam?

Joel Cheesman (1:52)

Oh, yeah.

It's the podcast that dude at the Red Light District warned you about. We are the Chad & Cheese Podcast. I'm your co-host, Joel Cheesman. He's Chad Sowash. We are live at the E-Recruitment Congress in Amsterdam.

SPEAKER_3 (2:10)

And the music about.

Joel Cheesman (2:12)

All right. We have four very special guests for our show today.

On the show, we do what we call a Twitter bio. You could call it an elevator pitch. It's just a quick introduction to you. I think we know Rika, but some of our listeners, this is a live show, won't know you. So give us a bit about you and then we'll go down the line here before we get into the Q&A.

Rika Coppens (2:34)

So I'm Rika Coppens. I'm the CEO of House of HR.

We deliver all kinds of HR services across Europe. And I think one of our biggest quirks or what we're known for is that all of our employees are called happy rebels because we want to innovate, we want to do new and cool stuff. And when everyone zigs, we want to zag.

Joel Cheesman (2:55)

Love it.

Chad Sowash (2:58)

HR, happy rebels.

Joel Cheesman (3:00)

More for that than for us. That's kind of bullshit.

All right, next.

Chiara Riondino (3:04)

Hi, Chiara. I'm responsible for future work and youth employment at the European Commission. And I'm super excited to be here and already learned a lot in the first keynote. And so really excited.

Joel Cheesman (3:18)

It's pronounced Chiara?

Chiara Riondino (3:19)

Chiara, like with a K.

Joel Cheesman (3:21)

I learn so much when I come to Europe.

Minna Melleri (3:23)

Hi, everyone. I'm Minna. I'm executive director of World Employment Confederation. So we are the global voice of the workforce solutions industry globally since 59 years. Wow. And we have members like the House of HR, the big workforce solutions companies globally, and also a great network of national federations across the world.

Joel Cheesman (3:45)

They put the LinkedIn guy closer to me because you're a little bit scary.

Glenn Bloxham-Mundy (3:48)

It's a friendly space.

Joel Cheesman (3:50)

Great to have you here, Glenn.

Glenn Bloxham-Mundy (3:52)

Great to be here. Thank you. Been at LinkedIn for 10 years.

Currently leading our global accounts, some of which are probably in the room today. And previously spent a lot of time with our slightly smaller businesses as well, so our enterprise clients too.

Joel Cheesman (4:05)

We appreciate you being here. Very courageous.

Chad Sowash (4:07)

Excellent. So again, a big round of applause for Stephen and that presentation. Wasn't that awesome? Wasn't that awesome?

Yeah. Great job, man. Great job. Now, how many of you felt like you wanted to be that guinea pig for the shaving robot? Anyone? Anyone?