
Kyle Samuels
Founder and CEO of Creative Talent Endeavors, an executive search and HR consulting firm; expert on candidate experience and human-centered recruiting.
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Jun 11, 2026
The Human Side of Hiring
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Kyle SamuelsGUEST
So I've seen more people kind of realize that the whole we post a job, we get 500 applicants in a day is fool's gold because typically they're in going to be very few they want to see.

Kyle SamuelsGUEST
And so ironically, I've seen people come back to using whether it's retained search, contingent search, but saying, you know what, there is a value in having Anna find exactly what I want and bring them to me versus me just trying to boil the ocean and sift through who's ever shaken through the ATS and hope, by the way, that my ATS did not kick someone out for certain reasons.

Kyle SamuelsGUEST
So one of the things I talked about in the presentation I told a story, obviously a client that will go unknown, but they had set up the AI in their ATS.

Kyle SamuelsGUEST
It was like a director of HR job, right? And so it was like, hey, we only want to talk to people who are directors or senior directors, right? But again, what AI doesn't have that we have as humans is discernment.

Kyle SamuelsGUEST
And so it's going to do whatever you tell it to do and typically not more, right? And so, whereas you
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