What if your AI screening tool is getting faster at finding candidates — but nobody has checked whether it’s finding the people who will actually perform well on the job?
Hiring teams are facing an unprecedented volume problem: more applications, AI-written resumes, increasingly similar candidate profiles, and recruiters who simply don’t have enough time to evaluate every applicant manually. So companies are responding with faster screening technology.
But speed doesn’t tell you whether your screening process works.
If your recruiting team measures time-to-fill while the business measures performance months later—and nobody connects those two sets of data—you could be optimizing a hiring process that efficiently sends the wrong candidates to your managers.
In this episode, Jackson Lynch and Scott Morris unpack how CHROs and talent leaders can shift from screening for resume matches to measuring whether their screening process actually predicts success on the job.
You’ll discover:
Play the episode to learn how to stop measuring your screening process only by how quickly candidates move through it—and start measuring whether it actually identifies people who can succeed in the job.
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This conversation covers AI in hiring, quality of hire against time to fill, structured interview design, and what talent acquisition should report to the CEO.
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