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or human capital as an industry, was ripe for
some sort of disruption,” says Ezra. In its current
state, the bulk of spending in the recruitment
industry goes towards contingency recruitment:
companies use multiple recruitment
agencies, job boards, job-hunting sites like
LinkedIn and Indeed, and internal recruiters to
source new employees. “Because recruiters
are competing against a whole other range of
people, their interest is not finding the right fit
for a role, the interest is getting the CV in first,”
Ezra explains. “As a result, recruiters don’t really
engage with a candidate unless they’ve known
them for a very long time. They don’t have that
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