RecTalk at RecFest: How AI Agents Are Changing Recruitment with Metaview

What happens when AI moves beyond taking interview notes and starts doing real recruiting work? In this special live episode of RecTalk, filmed at RecFest UK, Nitin Sharma and Sean Kennedy (Sean the TA Guy) sit down with **Siadhal Magos** and **Stephanie Bowker** from **Metaview** to explore how AI is reshaping recruitment — and why the future of recruiting technology could look very different from the ATS-driven model we know today. Siadhal and Stephanie discuss Metaview’s evolution from an interview note-taker into a broader AI recruiting platform, with agents supporting areas such as sourcing, application review and reporting. A major theme is the growing capability of AI agents. As LLMs become more powerful, the challenge isn’t simply building another AI feature — it’s turning that intelligence into useful, compliant and effective workflows that recruiting teams can actually trust and adopt. The conversation also explores why Metaview believes its competitive advantage goes beyond the underlying AI models. With increasingly powerful tools becoming available directly through products such as Claude and other AI platforms, recruitment technology companies need to build more than intelligence under the hood. For Metaview, that means combining agents, data, collaboration, guardrails and recruiting-specific workflows. The team talks as well about the changing role of humans in the recruiting process. Rather than humans checking every individual AI output, the goal is increasingly to give people oversight of autonomous agents and focus their attention on objectives, outcomes and orchestration. There’s also plenty of RecFest banter, including Metaview’s winning merch, the importance of authentic marketing, and why the team sees events like RecFest as valuable opportunities to connect with customers, AI-native talent and the wider recruitment community. GUESTS Siadhal Magos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siadhal/ Stephanie Bowker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-bowker-b8172717/ Learn more about Metaview: https://www.metaview.ai/ HOSTS Sean Kennedy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanthetaguy/ Nitin Sharma: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-rectools/ SPONSORED BY **NOVA by Dweet** — Define what good looks like. Screen, source, and shortlist talent automatically. Nova works with your hiring team to build structured scoring criteria for each role, then screens every applicant, resurfaces past candidates, and finds new ones automatically. https://nova.dweet.com/ **Zyverno** — builds Frontline Hiring Intelligence for logistics, care, hospitality and retail: the sectors where a single vacancy can attract hundreds of applications that never get properly assessed. Its AI agent, Lina, conducts structured screening interviews against manager-defined criteria and returns ranked, scored shortlists. Lina screens and ranks. Hiring managers make every decision. https://www.zyverno.app/ **Screenloop** — is the all-in-one ATS built for SMEs. Replace your scattered stack of tools, from ATS to interview intelligence, scheduling, scorecards, and note-taking tools with one intuitive platform. Backed by AI time-saving features and an award-winning support team. That way, you save time, cut tooling costs, and make smarter hiring decisions faster. https://www.screenloop.com/ Find out more about **RecFest UK**: https://recfest.com/uk/ Discover recruitment tools and services: https://www.rectools.io/ Listen to RecTalk on another platform: https://rectalk.co.uk/ **#RecTalk #RecFestUK #Recruitment #TalentAcquisition #RecruitmentTechnology #EmployerBrand #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfRecruitment #RecruitmentIndustry #HRTech #EmployerReputation #RecTech #RecruitmentPodcast**